Sentence examples for leader marked from inspiring English sources

The former Ukip leader marked his retirement with what his swimming partner and Leave.EU founder Arron Banks describes as a drunken skinny-dip.

Consider, for example, how Eric Cantor, the House majority leader, marked Labor Day last year: with a Twitter post declaring "Today, we celebrate those who have taken a risk, worked hard, built a business and earned their own success".

The reference to the CIA's part in the ousting of Mohammad Mosaddegh, Iran's democratically elected leader, marked a first official admission of that role, and represented an important gesture to Rouhani.

Page A7 NORTH KOREA NAMES LEADER The declaration that Kim Jong-un is now North Korea's "supreme leader" marked an emotional turning point for the hermetic country -- reaffirming support for the young heir after nearly two weeks of national mourning for his father, Kim Jong-il.

The Liberal Democrats' leader marked his ground with the debate's opening words, when he referred to Mr. Brown and Mr. Cameron sardonically as "those two," and went on to say Britain needed a "new politics" of honesty and transparency to break the stranglehold of Labour and the Conservatives.

In an audacious piece of political positioning he offered himself as the true inheritor of the Blairite mantle, arguing that the moment last week when the Labour conference booed its former leader marked an end to the era when Labour made its peace with middle Britain.

Mr. Paniagua's emergence as a transitional leader marks at least a pause in six months of political turbulence set off by elections last April and May that were roundly criticized by international observers as tainted by dirty campaign tricks and vote fraud.

As supporters gathered in Perth, Nicola Sturgeon officially succeeded Alex Salmond as the SNP's new leader, marking the end of her 10-year apprenticeship as his deputy.

But today it connects the countries: "Generally, Germany is Israel's closest ally in Europe".European leaders marked the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz this week.

The union, a 53-nation body that is Africa's most authoritative group, made the call after a two-day gathering of African leaders marked by divisions over the handling of the crisis in Zimbabwe.

Kandahar and its tribes present some of the same challenges and opportunities as Iraq's Anbar province, where an American outreach to Sunni tribal leaders marked the beginning of a new arc in that war that made an honorable American exit seem thinkable.