31.   For years, alliance leaders argue, they have stood alone against the Taliban, living off tiny amounts of help doled out by Iran and Russia.

32.   French political leaders have argued that the bank should have some accountability to political leaders and place at least some priority on job creation.

33.   For years, military leaders have argued that the presence of openly gay service members would threaten unit cohesion and morale.

34.   For years, Sullivan County leaders have argued that the elixir for their economic woes is a casino.

35.   GOP leaders have argued that both House members and the public have the right to examine all of the evidence.

36.   Hospital and union leaders argue that gaining new funds would indeed help patients.

37.   House leaders argue that giving the states such new flexibility would allow them to do more with less.

38.   In addition to making mergers and acquisitions easier, business leaders argue that repealing the ban would make it simpler to break up existing companies into smaller units.

39.   In practice, that may never happen because the union leaders can argue that targets were missed because of company problems.

40.   Industry leaders argue that change is happening slowly.