She sees herself not as a short-run insurgent, but as a long-term leader.
The pattern is not unfamiliar, either in football or more generally: replacing a long-term leader is never straightforward.
Instead, the group is now concentrating on softer targets in a belt of countries farther south.In this section Stop-gap or long-term leader?
They spent last season trying to make Elvis Grbac their long-term leader at quarterback and, despite making the playoffs, that turned into a nightmare.
But to do this, the once seemingly passive number two, who had previously been an innocuous state governor, must take on some powerful vested interests.In this section Stop-gap or long-term leader?
The Umma has chosen its long-term leader, the 74-year-old Sadiq al-Mahdi, to contest the presidency; he is a direct descendant of the Mahdi, the spiritual and political founder of Sudanese nationalism in the 19th century.
But each visitor is now expected to make more of his (or less often her) trip, staying a bit longer and shelling out a third more cash.In this section Stop-gap or long-term leader?
"It is the Islamists' way of getting back at the state, by embarrassing it, for the violence it inflicts on them".In this section Stop-gap or long-term leader?
Mr. Whitacre, the 68-year-old retired head of AT&T, said he was leaving because prospective investors needed to know that G.M. had a long-term leader in place beyond the stock offering.
Saeb Erekat, the Palestinians' chief negotiator, pledged that there will be no direct talks unless the building stops completely, in East Jerusalem as well as the rest of the West Bank.In this section Stop-gap or long-term leader?
His contempt for Charles Haughey, twice taoiseach and long-term leader of the Fianna Fail party, was notorious, and much of it seems to have been returned by Haughey, who refused to engage in public debate with him.
