1.   He led the nation in field goal percentage for several weeks.

2.   He led the nation out of a depression and into a period of growth and prosperity.

3.   He led the nation out of a depression and guided it through a world war.

4.   ...a tale of how an honourable man pursuing honourable goals was afflicted with hubris and led his nation towards catastrophe.

5.   FIRST class sport in County Durham is leading the nation as physical education becomes part of the National Curriculum.

6.   Also the cost of repaying these loans got cheaper as the Group of Three leading industrial nations engineered a decline in the yen.

7.   Among state agencies, the Missouri Water Patrol led the nation last year in citations for boating while intoxicated.

8.   Among college graduates, it leads the nations in the older generation but is third behind Canada and Japan in the younger cohort.

9.   And California leads the nation in the number of injury claims resulting from car accidents, although a wide range exists in the state.

10.   And after Yitzhak Rabin was murdered, Bibi seemed too tarnished to ever lead the nation.