We're pulling our leadership team together, in crisis management mode.
Mr. de Blasio can claim leadership pulling back on stop-and-frisk measures, and Mr. Thompson, notwithstanding his actorly histrionics of late, can fairly be described as a latecomer.
And it won't fall victim to leadership pulling it into odd markets on a whim.
Perhaps management is pushing, and leadership is pulling.
They accused the Conservative leadership of pulling its punches in an effort to shore up support for the Liberal Democrats.
Victor Homola (NYT) ITALY: AMATO SHIFT -- The leaders of Italy's center-left governing coalition praised Prime Minister Giuliano Amato for pulling out of the leadership race and backing Rome's mayor, Francesco Rutelli, to run in the general election next year.
With Sir Keith Joseph, the leading theorist of the Conservative right - whom Denis Thatcher labelled "England's greatest Man" - pulling back from a leadership challenge, the way eventually opened in 1975 for his wife to be elected as Conservative leader.
Leadsom told Graham Brady, chairman of the Conservative 1922 committee, that she was thinking of pulling out of the leadership contest on the Thursday when she made it on to the final shortlist of two, Shipman says.
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA--After months of turmoil, the troubled Australian synchrotron is pulling together under new leadership and churning out good science.
Although support for the research bump-ups came from both sides of the aisle, the new chair of the House Science Committee, Representative Bart Gordon (D-TN), credited "the Democratic leadership" for pulling off the feat despite "a very tough budget predicament".
