The citizens' behavior has set an example for their nominal leaders.
The renewed clampdown coincides with concern over the whereabouts of the Green movement's nominal leaders, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi.
They are sleeping in the same room as Mala Krekar and Abdullah al-Shafi" — the nominal leaders of Ansar al-Islam.
Taliban field commanders have responded to NATO's intensified military campaign by becoming more radical and disobedient towards their nominal leaders hiding in Pakistan.
Many no longer believe the assurances of their nominal leaders and doubt they have the interests of ordinary people in mind.
The people who are the nominal leaders there may or may not want a civil war, but they are being superseded by those who do, who have the power to make it happen.
Like most other Athabaskan tribes, the Slave were separated into a number of independent bands, each of which was rather loosely organized, with only nominal leaders, and was associated with certain hunting territories.
Nominal leaders of the Free Syrian Army say they embrace ethical standards, contend that the government commits the vast majority of abuses and blame rogue groups for bad rebel behavior.
Mr. Ali quit the fight in frustration over what he called corruption among the rebels' nominal leaders and the tendency of some groups to stockpile arms instead of fighting to topple their common adversary, President Bashar al-Assad.
When he refused, Turkey threw open the doors to the Free Syrian Army, the dogged but inchoate rebel group, whose nominal leaders operate from a heavily guarded tented camp inside Turkey near the border.
A confidential F.B.I. memorandum dated April 29 , 1971 on a just-concluded antiwar march on Washington by Vietnam Veterans Against the War concluded that the group's nominal leaders had been overshadowed by "a more popular and eloquent figure, John Kerry," who was "glib, cool and displayed best what the moderate elements wanted to reflect".
