21.   Such talk is probably counterproductive in Palestinian areas, where people bristle at the notion that Israel would play a role in selecting its leaders.

22.   The election has also raised questions about the Conservative method of selecting a leader, with voting confined to what is now a relatively small number of legislators.

23.   The decision-making Central Committee announced last year that it would convene a congress this June to select new leaders for the party and government.

24.   The group has yet to work out a platform and select a leader, Sysuyev said, according to ITAR-Tass.

25.   The United States has said that a vote would prove divisive, since the Geneva-based WTO normally selects leaders by consensus.

26.   They would also allow Indians within those autonomous regions to select leaders according to their customs, bypassing the political party system, and conduct traditional forms of jurisprudence.

27.   They wanted the party leader to be selected in backroom discussions, as the Liberal Democrats traditionally have done.

28.   Time has faced similar quandaries in the past, and occasionally has selected unpopular leaders, including Hitler and Stalin.

29.   Zaher Shah returned in April to convene a loya jirga, which ended earlier this month by selecting interim leader Hamid Karzai to govern until elections.

30.   But even having party members select their leader themselves is a relatively new phenomeonon for conservative politicians in Japan.