But it seems that their support for Ahmadinejad stemmed from the Leader's approval of the Iranian president.
The previous period of relative tranquility, he said, stemmed from the leaders of the multiple different groups of vigilantes and criminal gangs choosing to lie low while they formed new coalitions in an effort to make a bid for dominance at a later date.
From the Libyan capital to Syria to Saudi Arabia, the most common response was a collective shrug about the defeat of Ehud Barak, the Labor Party leader, stemming from the sense that all Israeli leaders have treated Arabs with equal violence no matter what their party affiliation.
Just a few weeks earlier, Shell had agreed to settle a court case stemming from the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, a leader of the indigenous Ogoni environmental movement in Nigeria who had protested against Shell's environmental practices in the oil-rich Niger Delta.
The 2nd reason for Conservatives' good cheer, is the disruption in the Labour Party stemming from the resignation of Roy Jenkins as Deputy Leader of the Party in the House.
Amid the laughs, however, I realized that the stress of the season only adds to federal employees' (and their leaders') ongoing pressures stemming from the budget cuts, pay freezes and other potential setbacks on the horizon.
BP well site leaders Robert Kaluza and Donald Vidrine are fighting manslaughter charges stemming from the deaths of the 11 Deepwater Horizon workers.
And culture stems from the way leaders act, not what they say.
There is a major problem and it stem s from the leader.
Leadership is the accomplishment of a goal through the direction of human assistants a human and social achievement that stems from the leader's understanding of his or her fellow workers and the relationship of their individual goals to the group's aim.
Some of the Democratic opposition stemmed from the decision by party leaders to strip from the bill money that had been included in the original House version to help address the weak economy at home, including funds to help preserve teachers' jobs.
