11.   Japan, which had been criticized as lacking leadership, won praise for its role in guiding the members to compromise.

12.   Keller, whose team is developing a hybrid car engine that burns hydrogen and powers an electric motor, accepts that the United States lacks industrial leadership.

13.   Pennsylvania lacks strong leadership from Gov. Tom Ridge and the state assembly in combatting drunk driving, according to Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

14.   The current Dodgers and Colorado Rockies, a pair of sputtering clubs who, by most accounts, should be better, have each been accused of lacking leadership.

15.   The Revolution have lacked leadership since the departure of Walter Zenga for knee surgery last month.

16.   They lacked senior leadership and, because of the suspensions, had no continuity.

17.   This retreat lacks courage, lacks leadership, lacks integrity, and falls well beneath the Olympic ideals.

18.   Travis Fryman caused a stir in the clubhouse recently when he said the Indians lacked leadership.

19.   Too often it has been a flaccid, ineffectual body guided by men who lacked leadership.

20.   What became clear to Meggett, a new arrival in Foxborough this year, was that the Patriots were lacking leadership on his side of the ball.