1.   Community leaders regard them as partners.

2.   Conservative Southern Baptist leaders regarded the overwhelming vote for the new statement as a victory in a two-decade long battle for the Bible.

3.   Democratic leaders regard that as an essential ingredient.

4.   Many Indian tribal leaders regard Medicine Mountain as the significant spiritual landscape and the Medicine Wheel as a component of that landscape.

5.   Some civic leaders regard these cries of protest as tinny and overexaggerated.

6.   And at least one Bosnian Serb, who identified himself only as Dragan, crossed into what Serb leaders now regard as enemy territory to watch.

7.   Chinese leaders still regard Taiwan as the most significant problem in relations with the United States, the U.S. officials said.

8.   Chinese leaders regard executions as an effective deterrent to crime.

9.   Chinese leaders regard the island as part of their own territory and are opposed to any attempts show how the sides are different.

10.   Chinese leaders regard deflation as the most serious economic threat facing the country.