"leading paragraph" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can refer to the introductory paragraph of a written work such as an essay or article. For example, "The leading paragraph of my essay presents the main argument that I will discuss throughout the rest of the paper."
If I remember history correctly, we are now in a "factors leading to" paragraph before a unit where maps get super flaggy and arrowy.
"If I remember history correctly, we are now in a 'factors leading to' paragraph before a unit where maps get super flaggy and arrowy," goes one viral Tweet, published the day after the EU referendum.
The compositor inserts leading between paragraphs to bring each column on the page to its proper height.
Moreover, the White House, vetting the report for secrets, failed to raise an objection to a Democratic bonanza in the tricky paragraph leading to the misleading "no Qaeda-Iraq tie".
And the final pages of "About a Mountain," which consist of a single long paragraph leading through the last evening of Levi Presley's life, are unquestionably art, a breathtaking piece of writing.
A closer analysis of the paragraph leading up to these concluding remarks would show that Proust is equating literary criticism with what he will later call mémoire volontaire, whereas he will reserve for the novel and novelistic discourse the vivifying powers of mémoire involontaire.
Then Brzezinski tries to do a little oral version of the "TO BE FAIR" paragraph, leading Chris Matthews to spit back that she, too, was "caught up in all this pussyfooting".
In his 1984 convention speech, for example, though it was his reference to Dickens's 1859 novel that stole the headlines, it was the paragraphs leading up to that bon mot which gave Cuomo's message its ageless appeal: A shining city is perhaps all the President sees from the portico of the White House and the veranda of his ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well.
The GTA outrage-manufacturing machine has had to look farther afield, leading to hilarious paragraphs like this one from The Mirror: "Ms Sherratt added: 'We've had children crashing into others in toy cars in the playground.
The last sentence in this paragraph should finish off the argument, naturally leading into the third paragraph of the body.
