Such gestures led some to think that Mr. Xi be would be a relatively mild leader.
It seems almost cruel that India's mild leader, an economist by training, should attract so much personal venom.
Before visiting Qaddafi's villa, where kids play soccer on the former tennis court, I went to the Bayda home of Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, the mild leader of the Transitional National Council in eastern Libya.
Mr Abdullah... is, by contrast, a traditionally mild Malaysian leader... [The release of Mr Anwar] will have added to [his] popularity.
New year, new me: out with the old mild Labour leader you once knew; from now on he would turn himself into a left-wing populist, leading a mass revolt against wealthy interests and the choked tedium of politics as usual. .
The mild-mannered leader of the Republican People's Party stepped aside to allow his feistier colleague, Mr. Ince, to run.
Saleh may have resigned, but the old regime still clings on to power," said Fuad al-Himyari, the young, mild-mannered leader of the opposition movement's umbrella organization, the Higher Youth Coordination Committee, during an interview in the tent city.
That a mild-mannered charismatic leader with a deep concern for the poor can be rejected so totally by the poor of India is unbelievable, until we realise that, for many, his leadership symbolised the feudal and undemocratic way state affairs were run by the Gandhi family and its friends.
He was largely perceived as a mild and incorruptible political leader, and his first tenure in office was marked by his attempts to establish a transparent and corruption-free administration.
There she meets Ronin (Colin Farrell, speaking in a mild Irish brogue), the leader of the Leafmen, a corps of green-uniformed eco-warriors committed to saving the forest from the evil Boggans.
It does not carry the cachet of home runs or hits, so the attention surrounding Rivera's quest to become the saves leader is mild compared with Derek Jeter's drive to become the 28th player with 3,000 hits, or even Jim Thome's quest to become the eighth player with 600 home runs.
