1.   Although the committee was widely suspected of being a puppet organization, it was headed by a respected Buddhist leader, Chatral Rinpoche.

2.   For Hume, a widely respected leader, the effort to clear the names of the victims of Bloody Sunday has been a personal crusade.

3.   He has become a fiery and smart player while also evolving into a respected leader.

4.   He recruited a respected industrial leader, Jean-Edouard Baker, to head a commission to promote new investment.

5.   He ran second to Arafat as the most respected Palestinian leader in a recent public opinion survey among Palestinians.

6.   He was so pious at a school for preachers that friends referred to him as hodja, or respected spiritual leader.

7.   Ibrahim Rugova, the respected leader of the Kosovar Albanians, has little influence with the guerrillas.

8.   In a dramatic moment, the widely respected Pashtun leader Hamid Karzai telephoned the conference from Afghanistan and addressed delegates.

9.   In the Iraqi countryside, the government reportedly gives seed, land or machinery to traditionally respected rural leaders, who in turn help ensure obedience.

10.   Instead of Dodd, Senate Democrats chose Tom Daschle of South Dakota to replace George Mitchell, a respected leader who decided to retire.