Sentence examples for principal leader from inspiring English sources

He became a state senator in 1868 and also became grand sachem (principal leader) of Tammany Hall that same year.

Mr. Adams was the principal leader of the republicans during negotiations that led to the I.R.A. cease-fire in 1994.

He went on, "I think it's dangerous that we have an environment where our principal leader cannot be well informed".

Along with Mawlana Mawdudi, the principal leader of Islamic radicalism in Pakistan, and Ayatollah Khomeini, in Iran, Qutb remains one of the founding ideologists of Islamic radicalism.

For the first time in perhaps all Russian history, the installation of the principal leader came the day after a brutal crackdown, as the police dispersed Putin's opponents.

Hara became the Seiyūkai's secretary-general that year and was a principal leader of the party from then on, serving as its president after 1914.

He was also one of the principal leaders of India's independence movement in the 1930s and '40s.

Over the years, Israel's principal leaders, both Likud and Labor, participated in the expansion of the settlements, but the most committed architect, the truest believer, was Ariel Sharon.

Though the government has refrained from arresting the principal leaders of the opposition, the category of people it has pursued has grown broader over time.

Upon the military uprising against the Spanish Republic in July 1936, several of the Falange's principal leaders, including Primo de Rivera, were arrested and shot by Republican firing squads.

By 1969 70 the principal leaders had been rounded up by the police and subjected to military trials in the city of Burgos.