1.   Just as ominously, the Senate leadership seems inclined to attach conditions to the money.

2.   American leadership seems ignorant of how its perceptions are viewed among its partners and their citizens.

3.   After all, our political leadership seems powerless to find solutions to the kind of street anarchy that preys upon our lives, property and sense of well-being.

4.   But even the Army leadership cannot seem to agree on how serious the issue is.

5.   But for the most part the political leadership seems tone deaf.

6.   For reasons good and bad, the Republican leadership seemed disinclined to support military action.

7.   For the moment, the Chinese leadership seems to be in one of its more relaxed moods.

8.   I am stunned that the leadership seems so content on gagging us in this body.

9.   Instead, the Congressional leadership seems to be determined to pursue the opposite course.

10.   The escalating violence in the Mideast is horrifying, but the Palestinian leadership seems unwilling to rein it in.