1.   Will the President capitalize on his immense popularity to exert strong leadership?

2.   After being jerked around for more than two years by the British and French, President Clinton was forced by Congress to exert NATO leadership.

3.   But Friday the governor got a scolding from the environmental groups for his failure to exert leadership on a number of state environmental issues.

4.   He is, in short, once again strongly positioned to conduct a political campaign but weakly positioned to exert political leadership.

5.   It is difficult for a president plagued by accusations of personal indiscretion to exert moral leadership in a nation that craves such leadership.

6.   Senior point guard Jason Terry is the best player in the conference, scoring, passing, defending and exerting leadership on a team that needs it.

7.   Such exhortations allow him to exert leadership without inaugurating new spending programs.

8.   Surely if America wants to exert leadership in the years ahead, it cannot automatically dismiss peacekeeping and nation-building missions.

9.   That is particularly striking given that President Clinton, battered by scandal, has not had much opportunity to exert leadership himself.

10.   The emperor was primarily a symbolic sovereign, but he realized that he must now exert leadership.