Sentence examples for vigorous leader from inspiring English sources

The official estimate of Waldheim was that he was a vigorous leader chafing at governmental restraints.

"He was a vigorous leader and defender of the NSA," Aftergood said.

Even within the aged oligarchy, some could see the need for a younger and more vigorous leader.

Artfully cast as a vigorous leader who is above petty politics, Mr. Putin remains largely immune to blame.

Instead, Mr. Sawallisch proved a vigorous leader, instituting something of a youth movement, making room for and hiring gifted new players.

Donald E. Lukens, who helped push his party to the right as a vigorous leader of the Young Republicans in the 1960s and who resigned from Congress in scandal two decades later, died Saturday in Dallas.

The ultimate risk is that we are silenced, or incapacitated, by our struggle to manage the demands of a set of stakeholders — demands that would overwhelm many of the commercial sector's most vigorous leaders.

vigorous U.S. Republican Party leader who, as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1889 91, 1895 99), introduced significant procedural changes (the Reed Rules) that helped ensure legislative control by the majority party in Congress.

Three months later he was elected General Secretary of the Soviet Communist party, a young and vigorous new leader about to embarking on perestroika, no less than a second Soviet revolution, albeit this time peaceful.

The leftish New Democratic Party (NDP) under Jack Layton, a vigorous new leader, almost doubled its share of the vote, but won only six more seats.What saved the day for the Liberals was that many voters in socially tolerant Ontario were scared of Mr Harper's Conservatives, a party cobbled together from his own right-wing Canadian Alliance and the more moderate Progressive Conservatives.

Not even a vigorous, reformist leader like Mikhail Gorbachev could staunch the rot, especially when, in the late 1980s, the price of Russian oil fell drastically.