This left Mr Sharif, a champion of Punjab, Pakistan's most populous state, as the country's closest approximation to a national leader.
Romney, just barely, fills the potential bill for a national leader, if he surrounds himself with wise experts on foreign policy, national defense, the threat of terrorism.
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"We adopted comprehensive governmental ethics reforms that have made Louisiana a national leader in accountability and transparency, " says Stephen Moret, head of the Louisiana Department of Economic Development.
DoD needs to be a national leader in combating sexual assault and we will establish an environment of dignity and respect, where sexual assault is not tolerated, condoned, or ignored.
New Mexico has joined the Chicago Climate Exchange, pledging to reduce its carbon emissions, and at the same time becoming a national leader in creating a state-of-the-art clean energy economy.
The NYPD has been a national leader in recognizing that policing in an age of terror requires not only proactive intelligence collection but the ability to act decisively upon the fruits of that collection rather than waiting for disaster to strike, and then reacting.
It's really an example of how she is trying to set herself up as a national leader, and, for example, she's also, on this same trip, going to the Israeli Knesset to give a speech, and she is the highest-ranking woman American official ever to speak to the Israeli Parliament.
For all the discontent over the Republican presidential options, the VP choices are excellent and can both significantly enhance the ticket while grooming someone to be a future national leader.
Incumbent Prime Minister Tillman Thomas (National Democratic Congress) is facing a challenge by veteran New National Party leader Keith Mitchell.
Bose, or Netaji (leader) as he is called, receded into the history books as a brave, if misguided, national leader.
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Margaret Thatcher, who died today at 87, was an extraordinary kind of national leader: a person of passionate and unswerving moral and political conviction.
Associate Professor Gregg Suaning, of the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering and a project leader in the national bionic eye consortium, Bionic Vision Australia (BVA), said the new, 98-channel microchip, now undergoing preliminary lab testing, was a major step towards the goal of a functional bionic eye.
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After Mr Ben Ali's departure, his prime minister since 1999, Mohammed Ghannouchi, a veteran RCD leader, announced he would form a government of national unity, with the speaker of parliament, Foued Mebazaa, temporarily filling the presidency.
And second, a sharp drop in support for the far right National Front leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, and for a hotch-potch of extreme left and single-issue candidates has pulled French politics firmly back into the mainstream.
It follows the controversy over the selection of a Welsh Labour leader in the National Assembly's formation.
New Jersey, the national income leader, ranks a cozy 30th in home-insurance costs.
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"As of now our planes are preventing Gadhafi's attacks on the city, " French president Nicholas Sarkozy said after the Paris summit ended, the first national leader to make such a statement Saturday.
Throughout the campaign, Mr Bush's team has insisted that any debate about Iraq was good for him because it plays to his strength as a war leader in a period of national security threats.
David Cameron offered his response, presenting himself as a leader wrestling to head off national decline, frank about the scale of the challenge and willing to admit that confronting it was taking longer and proving harder than he'd promised.
Then watch The Race to Mackinac, a 2002 documentary produced by Chicago public television station WTTW. The station put cameras on two boats and zoomed in on such passing scenery as Sleeping Bear Dunes (a national park on the Michigan coast) and Beaver Island, where a rogue Mormon leader once declared himself king.
Pasok leader Evangelos Venizelos called for a national-unity government including the Democratic Left and Syriza as well as New Democracy.
Shortly after that, the national executive lost a no confidence vote and leader Michael Holmes resigned, although he remained an MEP.
It is true that this bargaining has collapsed for the moment, with Oskar Lafontaine, the Social Democratic national leader, holding out for a decisive one-to-one summit (so far not granted) with Mr Kohl.
There he won global recognition as a leader of an acceptable hue: His National Conference Party had grass-root support and was committed to a democratic solution to the Kashmir problem, within the framework of the Indian constitution.
No other black leader has been as successful at building a national power base from a local following.
Alone in his office, Mr. Papandreou phoned the parliamentary opposition leader and offered to make way for a national-unity government.
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