1.   The buildings themselves, often paid for by local philanthropists, were commissioned from leading architects.

2.   As a result, while nuclear-heavy utilities balk at deregulation, Rowe has become the leading utility architect of it.

3.   But it is moving to see a leading architect of the liberal imagination develop a new vocabulary for the Rolling Stone generation.

4.   He was a leading architect of telecommunications deregulation.

5.   I asked Yossi Beilin, minister without portfolio and a leading architect of peace, what he thought would happen if Netanyahu won.

6.   Influenced by Sir Charles Barry, a leading English architect, Notman recreated an urban palazzo of the Florentine Renaissance.

7.   Remarkably, these Midwestern Medicis have managed to create such an interesting collection of buildings that leading architects clamor to design small-scale buildings here.

8.   Richard Rogers, a leading British architect and lecturer on planning, threw down the gauntlet.

9.   Junzo Yoshimura, a leading Japanese architect who designed Japan House in New York, has died of heart failure, his family said Wednesday.

10.   Rabin was succeeded by Shimon Peres, a leading architect of the peace process.