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National leader   /nˈæʃənəl lˈidər/   Listen
National leader

noun
1.
A man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs.  Synonyms: solon, statesman.






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"National leader" Quotes from Famous Books



... What could she do to pay tribute to their courage? Hughes was their national leader and spokesman; so the Political ...
— The War After the War • Isaac Frederick Marcosson

... insuperable. The peasant rising upon which Kosciuszko had built his best hopes was unprepared. But two elements remained that should, as pointed out by Zajonczek, consolidate and ensure a great national Rising: universal detestation of the Russian and limitless confidence in the chosen national leader. Kosciuszko deemed it advisable to wait. "It is impossible," he said after receiving Zajonczek's report, "to build on such frail foundations; for it would be a sad thing to begin lightly and without consideration, only to fall." He himself, recognizable as he was through all Poland, ...
— Kosciuszko - A Biography • Monica Mary Gardner

... at this time Chairman of the Political Department of the Woman's Party, and in that capacity interviewed practically every national leader in both majority parties. I can not resist recording a ...
— Jailed for Freedom • Doris Stevens

... secured strength by concentrating full responsibility in the President. But did they expect him to be their leader in the government as a whole; that is, in formulating the policies of government that should serve as the basis for legislation? We are in the habit of thinking of him as our national leader, but was ...
— Community Civics and Rural Life • Arthur W. Dunn

... the Academy. His diction is unsurpassed. He died in 1894. In his own phrase, he sought to bring Jesus forth from the darkness of dogma into the midst of the life of his people. He paints him first as an idyllic national leader, then as a struggling and erring hero, always aiming at the highest, but doomed to tragic failure through the resistance offered by reality to his ideal. He calls the traditional Christ an abstract being who never was alive. He would bring the marvellous ...
— Edward Caldwell Moore - Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant • Edward Moore



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