1.   Peterson, who lost his own seat, accepted responsibility for the defeat and immediately resigned as provincial Liberal leader.

2.   Another provincial leader, Commander Awalgul, a former Taliban official, said he believed that bin Laden may have headed south.

3.   A provincial leader from Karnataka, H.D. Deve Gowda, won the lottery for prime ministership, to his astonishment.

4.   But provincial leaders pointedly declared Thursday that the push for English signs could cause a dangerous backlash.

5.   But outside experts believe that command is relatively decentralized, and that provincial political leaders have considerable say over how the armed police troops are used.

6.   Butsingiri said that he and the other provincial leaders had rejected the U.N. idea that they take a trip to Rwanda to inspect conditions.

7.   Chinese analysts say that the Politburo now fears that without tight discipline over prices and overspending by provincial leaders, the economy could slip further out of control.

8.   City or provincial leaders set their own economic targets, court foreign investors, even raise internal trade barriers against the products of other parts of China.

9.   He had encouraged the provincial leaders to become more active in keeping with his new stance toward Quebec.

10.   He said he would have to meet with provincial leaders before acting on recommendations in the report, and he issued an apology.