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Leadership   /lˈidərʃˌɪp/   Listen
Leadership

noun
1.
The activity of leading.  Synonym: leading.
2.
The body of people who lead a group.  Synonym: leaders.
3.
The status of a leader.
4.
The ability to lead.






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"Leadership" Quotes from Famous Books



... primeval woodland has not yet been crossed. [Footnote: Just as this goes to press the newspapers announce that the Brazilian Government has appropriated $10,000 towards the expenses of an expedition into the interior, under the leadership of Henry Savage ...
— Through Five Republics on Horseback • G. Whitfield Ray

... The awful responsibility of leadership rests upon us. We have shattered the scepter of the tyrant and broken the shackles of the slave; we have torn the diadem from the prince's brow and placed the fasces of authority in the hands of the people; we have undertaken to ...
— Volume 12 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... the leadership of a native named Camartin and another, who declared themselves prophets, plundered the planters along that coast, and committed such notorious crimes that troops had to be despatched there under the command of the famous Lieut.-Colonel Villa-Abrille. The Gov.-General ...
— The Philippine Islands • John Foreman

... infernal act we see but another instance of the demoniac hate of the slave power, arrested by the strong arm of the government, under the heaven inspired leadership of Abraham Lincoln, in its career of treason, murder and despotism; and we are admonished anew to insist upon no compromise with the infamy, and upon the condign punishment by the mailed hand of power, ...
— The Great North-Western Conspiracy In All Its Startling Details • I. Windslow Ayer

... may [30] have felt as to the leadership of the younger was unexpectedly set at rest; though with some temporary regret for the loss of what had been, after all, a popular figure on the world's stage. Travelling fraternally in the same litter with Aurelius, Lucius Verus was struck with ...
— Marius the Epicurean, Volume Two • Walter Horatio Pater


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