1.   Leaders seize opportunities and push ahead.

2.   Democratic leaders seized on the opportunity to portray the president as indecisive.

3.   Democratic leaders seized on the study, holding press conferences on Capitol Hill as Gore aides fired off e-mails and telephone calls to reporters following Bush.

4.   In Grand Rapids itself, where civic leaders have seized on the exhibition as a promotional tool, the enthusiasm is far less circumspect.

5.   Instead the Palestinian leader has seized upon the crime as an excuse for demanding bargaining concessions.

6.   Islamic leaders have seized on the Sharon visit to pour fuel on the conflict.

7.   It was also a reminder of how much politics is about opportunities that would-be leaders either seize or squander in front of a fickle, not ideological, electorate.

8.   Labor leaders have seized on these Republican overtures as evidence that the referendum will undermine the labor movement.

9.   Labor leaders have seized on the disclosures about Mercado to step up their attacks on Chavez.