1.   Second, our victory in the Cold War has reduced the need to make our leaders into heroic figures.

2.   The Communist Party began to speak of the ILP membership as having forced the leaders into disaffiliation.

3.   Joannides put the pressure on again in the closing Clocaenog stages, forcing the leader into a few close shaves.

4.   Although they have not yet stirred leaders into much action, they have alerted America to the political precariousness of its closest Arab allies.

5.   And one Republican strategist suggested that Schluter was using the threat of a maverick gubernatorial bid to pressure party leaders into leaving his district unchanged.

6.   Bush made clear Monday that he intends to continue efforts to bring Saudi and other Arab leaders into the center of his peace efforts.

7.   But his gloomy predictions frightened successive Chinese Communist leaders into the most outrageous population policy the world has ever seen.

8.   Christian fundamentalists have a way of jerking Republican leaders back into line.

9.   Coelho says Panetta has melded a staff of youthful campaign loyalists, former academics and ex-business leaders into a smooth operation.

10.   Colonial Minstrel suffered a rough start, chased the flying leaders into the stretch but finished fifth.