• A leader might be effective or ineffective in any style of leadership, depending on the circumstances.
  • To enable the bank achieve clear leadership in both the corporate and inter-bank sectors, the department has undergone several changes during the past 12 months.
  • People were not quite sure whether firm leadership was any longer feasible in Britain.
  • Earning the Gold Award is a significant honor that requires recipients to demonstrate outstanding leadership skills, career planning, community involvement and personal development.
  • The study of visionary leadership and strategic vision offers the opportunity for a rewarding and revitalizing interchange between the fields of leadership studies and strategic management.
  • Among the Akan, a woman may even assume leadership in the community if there is no strong male candidate, although her brothers and maternal uncles remain dominant male figures.
  • In historical perspective, the autocratic leadership of late President Chiang Ching-Kuo should be given credit for initiating significant political change.
  • Those with exceptional leadership capacities may be more capable of leading large numbers of people toward, or away from, a particular utopian vision.
  • Chinese President Xi Jinping has shown himself to be a tough and charismatic leader whose vision is to fulfill the “Chinese dream”.
  • Republican Jesse Helms, seeking a fifth term, is the undisputed leader in attack ads with razor-sharp barbs on race and welfare.
  • During his twenty-five years of rule on Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek was an authoritarian leader in his attempts to prevent the spread of the Communists’ power to Taiwan.
  • The stakes are high: an impactful, effective leader at the helm of the U.N. is arguably what drives global progress on the world’s most pressing social issues.Bill Gates is a visionary leader, as were the two brothers-in-law who launched Procter & Gamble.
  • The variations in sectoral outputs is due largely to the degree of government control over the production of a particular sector. For example, most of the sectors with relatively high output are controlled and administered by the government and hence their output depends largely on government investment expenditures.
  • The restrictions placed upon the authority of a belligerent government can not be avoided by a system of using a puppet government, central or local, to carry out acts which would be unlawful if performed directly by the occupant.
  • In the run-up to the summit, the White House has been vaunting how Obama’s opening to Cuba has cleared away an impediment to more effective and results-oriented dialogue on regional issues like democracy, human rights, government accountability, and equitable development.
  • The leading party officials were not about to relinquish their power and allow centralised authority to disintegrate.
  • The system of counties was essential to Frankish government, and a count could wield considerable power, particularly in far-flung regions.
  • Workers parties and pressure groups may seize power and expand the role of the state.
  • The president wanted to devolve power to the individual, not to corporate bodies.
  • There is the European Parliament, which no one could deny is power-hungry.
  • All governments, democratically elected or not, know that public approval and political power flow from expenditures, not from taxation. 
  • To delegate power and to grant independence are two very different things.
  • Superiors are reluctant to delegate authority because they retain absolute responsibility for the performance of their subordinates.
  • Under Israel’s proposed » interim self-government authority » Palestinians would have some measure of autonomy, but no control over security, foreign affairs or settlements. 
  • King Bhumibol of Thailand used his moral authority to defuse serious crises in the past.
  • Political pundits believed concurrency in military authority allowed both governments to exercise military authority simultaneously.
  • It is difficult for indigenous communities to assert extralegal authority over powerful outsiders.
  • Conflicts have the distinctive capacity to reveal otherwise dormant structures of authority and power.
  • When conflicts arise, persons and institutions that wield authority emerge to frame the issues, define the boundaries of dissent, and resolve the tension.
  • History teaches that former leaders given amnesty or exile are prone to recidivism, resorting to corruption and violence and becoming a disruptive influence on the peace process.
  • The powerful influence of Arab nationalism was evident in the Egypto-Tripolitanian Union Party, which was established in 1946 with a program to unite Libya with Egypt under the Egyptian crown.
  • Gordon S. Fulcher Professor of Decision Making at Northwestern University, shows that, while economic elites and business groups have considerable influence on U.S. government policy, average citizens and mass interest groups have virtually none.
  • The country could move closer to a parliamentary system, with fewer checks and balances, but achieving this will be a “political struggle”: it will require good leadership and coalition-building to break the influence of entrenched interest groups. 
  • Power through wealth and confidence leads into the upper echelons of companies and into networks and lobby groups which have an ability to extend influence into other domains in our society through elite networks.
  • The 2008 elections weakened the groups that had been shaping U.S. policy toward Latin America and the Caribbean in the recent past.
  • Beijing has recently adopted policies that seek to restrict foreign access to China’s markets, including a new antimonopoly law. 
  • The president needs to understand that if he’s going to implement a strong foreign policy, if he’s going to take care of national security, a strong secretary of state is absolutely essential to the ability to protect the country and to advance its interests in the world. 
  • From its dominant vantage, the KMT government was able to pursue an economic policy remarkably free of politically impressed distortions.
  • Bill of 1991 stipulated that the USA should develop a coherent policy towards Hong Kong while recognising that it would become part of China.
  • The East European governments are going to be much less satisfied with a compromise if they see the country resuming a more belligerent policy.
  • A landmark in welfare provision was the Social Security Act (1935): for the first time the Federal government took responsibility for providing, with the co-operation of the states, old age pensions, unemployment benefits and help for such groups as the blind and the handicapped. 
  • The Congress must stop shirking its responsibility and reclaim the legislative mantle to check the executive.
  • States often evade responsibility for their transnational cyber activities.
  • Press, which is a widely subscribed to news service, decided to undertake the responsibility of coming up with a crowd estimate.
  • Richard Branson’s readiness to delegate responsibility and encourage people in tasks for which they had no particular qualification had been important in determining the mood of the company.
  • The Salt March did not topple British rule — independence would come 17 years later — but it cracked the foundations.
  • Thatcher really had only three musts: uphold the rule of law at home and abroad; keep government activities to a minimum, and so taxes low; and encourage individuals to do as much as they can, as well as they can.
  • General Yakubu Gowon was overthrown in 1975 partly because he violated the unstated rule of military regimes in Nigeria.
  • Detractors are quick to point out that there’s no political freedom in Vietnam under its one-party Communist rule.
  • King James VI of Scotland who was also King James I of England was determined to rule both kingdoms so as to allow no further violence between them.
  • The fact that political authorities rule over whole communities itself dictates some of the ways in which the question of the justification of such authorities should be formulated.
  • Since 1932 Thailand has been ruled by successive military regimes (with intermittent, short-term civilian governments) that came to power by force, usually through coup d’etats as military factions overthrew competing factions
  • For 80 percent of the period since 1932, when Thais overthrew their absolute monarchy and established republican rule, Thailand has been governed by nondemocratic, military-dominated regimes. 
  • Egyptian military graduates toppled the monarchy in 1952 and opened a new political era for the Middle East.
  • The 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran replaced a pro-Western monarchy friendly to Israel with a militant Shiite theocracy.
  • In 1883 Bismarck told Prince Wilhelm that Gladstone’s premiership might lead to the abolition of the monarchy as well as the House of Lords. 
  • Cleveland’s attempts to restore the monarchy failed.Beyond the options of benevolent monarchy or xenophobic nationalism lies a tradition of personal honor and fealty.
  • The 59-year-old monarch is Japan’s first emperor born after the war, and his remarks Thursday followed the stance of his father, Akihito, who abdicated in May.
  • The Kingdom of Sweden is a parliamentary democracy in which the monarch retains purely ceremonial functions as head of state and takes no active part in government.
  • Not since Queen Anne’s reign has a monarch refused the Royal Assent to the legislative measures approved by Parliament.
  • Successive monarchs saw to the harbour’s upkeep for its strategic value, until Lyme later developed into a trading port.
  • The preamble to the Indian constitution asserts that India is to be a sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic republic based on » justice, liberty, equality, and fraternity » .
  • Kim, who formed the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in 1948, ruled the country with an iron fist, almost complete isolation from the outside world .
  • An academic with no political experience and the fourth candidate in the race against Arafat, Nazal said he would abolish the Palestinian Authority and declare a republic if elected.
  • On June 4 a radio broadcast from Hargeisa announced the membership of the Somali National Movement (SNM) government of the recently declared secessionist Republic of Somaliland.
  • A Middle East peace conference which will address the full range of problems in the region and promote democracy, respect for human rights and reconciliation between the different communities. 
  • Subversive activities are generally regarded as those which threaten the safety or well-being of the State and which are intended to undermine or overthrow Parliamentary democracy by political, industrial or violent means.
  • In a liberal democracy government is held accountable to citizens by means of regular free elections, in which citizens choose between competing parties of politicians.
  • While the Tigers are finally embracing democracy, violence seems certain to continue in the north and east of the country.
  • The acts of individual retribution, however brutal, were easily surpassed by the collective cruelty of the dictatorship’s official repressive machinery.
  • The restoration of order would become the task of an even stronger and more ruthless dictatorship.
  • The 1986 revolt brought back the political system in place before Marcos imposed a dictatorship in 1972.
  • The military never had enough power to establish a dictatorship and could only operate through the authority of the emperor.
  • Christopher explained that his purpose was not to establish a benevolent planetary dictatorship but rather » to lead Humankind toward a place of complete individual self- governance”.
  • The slaughter of Somalia — a former British and Italian colony — began in January 1991 with the overthrow of ruthless dictator General Siad Barre. 
  • The SLP attacked the leadership style of Compton, whom critics described as a » benevolent dictator » practised in the art of » clientist » politics. 
  • Council resolution on Libya authorized military action only to protect civilians, not to oust dictator Muammar Qaddafi.
  • To a handful of true believers, Chalabi remains a battle-tested hero who toppled a dictator and sought to bring Western-style democracy to the Middle East.
  • Tunisians toppled their longtime dictator, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, after nearly a month of popular revolt.