41.   It started to become less fun several years ago, when the national leadership took up the issue of excluding gays from Scouting.

42.   Just as did Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a host of others who had an important message to our national leadership.

43.   Local officials are heavily influenced by the national leadership, but their re-election depends on how well they serve their small constituencies.

44.   Merritt represents a new generation in national Southern Baptist leadership as the first baby boomer president, said Akin.

45.   Neither major candidate for president meets the tough criteria for national leadership proposed by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

46.   No Democrat with pretensions to national leadership can afford not to be strictly in favor of abortion rights.

47.   No one, not even national church leadership, can tell a Baptist what to believe.

48.   None of the available leaders hold out any promise for national leadership.

49.   Not visibly present in the demonstrations were organizations associated with the conservative parties, though their national leadership condemned the power-sharing deals.

50.   On the other hand, Kaiser wants the Kennedy Center to play a national leadership role by both producing and presenting the most creative performances in America.