132 Metaphors for leader

Their leaders at this time were Barnave; a young noble named Alexander Lameth, whose mother, having been left in necessitous circumstances, owed to the bounty of the king and queen the means of educating her children, a benefit which they repaid with the most unremitting hostility to the whole royal family; and a lawyer named Duport.

Their leader is a very bad number named Lurton Zimbardo.

The great political leaders and orators were the stipendiaries of Eastern princes and nobles who wanted favors from the Senate, and who knew as well how to reward such services as do the railway kings in our times.

The leader of the revolt was Professor Tyndall, whose book is now before us.

Yüan himself now entered into relations with the revolutionaries, whose centre was Canton, and whose undisputed leader was now Sun Yat-sen.

"The leaders here are our friends, many of them have imbibed their principles in America, and all have been fired by our example.

It was now the time for the people at large; the natural leaders were the corporations of the large towns; the Liberal policy of the Prussian Government had given them considerable independence; they were elected by the people, and in nearly every town there was a large majority opposed to the Government.

The leader of the English positivists is Frederic Harrison (born 1831).

" The leader and champion on the part of Lady Huntingdon was the Honourable and Rev. Walter Shirley, grandson of the first Earl Ferrars, and her own first cousin.

An angry collision followed between him and his ministers, and in November, 1864, the Ministry, whose leaders were Sir William Fox and Sir Frederick Whitaker, resigned.

The leader in this carnival of pleasure and song was Joe Elliot, a next year's senior.

It was never supposed that the Southern leaders would actually become rebels.

Apart from the gravely delicate and scholarly work of Mr. Bridges, and the poetry of some others who work separately away from their fellows, English romantic poetry has concentrated itself into one chief schoolthe school of the "Celtic Revival" of which the leader is Mr. W.B. Yeats.

Twice had he been up against Merriwell, and he had found out that the leader of the freshmen was no easy thing.

Of these Stahl, Griffith and Callahan proved successful leaders and the first named became the hero of a world's championship team when the last ball of the series was caught.

On the other hand, a student group in Paris had also learned about communism and had organized; the leaders of this group were Chou En-lai and Li Li-san.

Go back and vote again, and consider that you have a Punic war in Italy, and that the leader of your enemies is Hannibal."

The leader of an epoch in affairs should therefore be some Alfred, Bruce, Gustavus Vasa, Cromwell, Washington, Garibaldi, who can wait while the iron of opportunity heats at the forge of time; and then, in the moment of its white glow, can so smite as to shape it forever to the uses of mankind.

The leader is probably always an old bird.

The leader of the Kabardínetzes was the Prince (Kniázek) Djenboulát.

Its leader was General Narciso Lopez.

The intellectual leaders of the movement, Chang Ling and others, were members of a particular religious sect.

*** It is now stated that the leader of the Sinn Feiners is an American citizen.

He was no longer master of himself or of those he commanded, and I could scarce believe that this harried, brow-beaten, menaced leader of the Milice was the alert and intrepid soldier I had served under before Yorktown.

The leader, if he cannot himself grasp the conditions, becomes the tool of his subordinates; he believes he is directing and is himself being directed.

132 Metaphors for  leader