Opponents warned that Mr Najib's government would crack down on political dissent to save its skin.Against the odds, though, Mr Najib, a British-educated economist, has emerged as a more sure-footed, and less scandal-prone, leader than many expected.
He said Mr. Topolanek's comments Wednesday that President Obama's emergency stimulus package was a "way to hell" showed that he was a gaffe-prone leader, who was unable to forge consensus either at home or abroad.
He often defended the interests of those, like Ms. Kungayeva, who became ensnared in the violent and often arbitrary military justice of the Chechen conflict or the tyrannical rule of Chechnya's violence-prone leader, Ramzan A. Kadyrov, in the war's aftermath.
There are many reasons why Labour is in so much trouble in Scotland: taking its core voters for granted, allowing its organisation to atrophy, too many lacklustre or accident-prone leaders, and being outclassed by the Nationalists.
Consider, then, the œuvre of Peter Morgan, the London-born playwright and screenwriter, who has dramatized such drama-prone leaders as Richard Nixon ("Frost/Nixon") and the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin ("The Last King of Scotland").
Britain would have done well to heed tradition and deny the honor of a state visit to this pope, a blunder-prone spiritual leader of rigid intellect and uncommunicative soul, too remote to heal a church in crisis.
A capacity crowd of 19,006 at Target Center roared its approval as Minnesota, a second-year team given 2,000-1 ofds of winning the league title, rallied from a 73-67 despite despithethe absence of foul-prone scoring leader Tony Campbell.
That would challenge the conventional wisdom that Irish voters, wary of leaving their scandal-prone political leaders unchecked, prefer cautious coalition governments to unfettered single-party ones.
He's the sort of outsider whose ideas about inequality and belief in the need for fundamental change have long alarmed cautious, triangulation-prone party leaders who now worry that Bernie Sanders (I-Vt). is making overly bold promises that he can't possibly deliver.
Gradually, he sculpted his own version of Escobar, as a cool, collected leader prone to bursts of terrifyingly pragmatic violence.
Living in that echo chamber may be pleasant, but it can also make a leader prone to errors.
