1.   The ILP leadership was trying to avoid close contact with the Comintern.

2.   As individual lawmakers staked their claims, the Senate Republican leadership tried to reassert some control, at least over its own members.

3.   A source said Ward viewed it as a clear sign that the leadership is trying to get him on the committee before next year.

4.   After all, the Republican leadership has tried every technique to gut or block gun control in the past.

5.   Democrats and even Shays argued that the leadership was trying to kill the bill, so they engineered a vote against the proposed rules package.

6.   From the outset it was evident that, whenever possible, the Pale leadership would try to undermine the political aspects of the deal.

7.   Linder emphasized that the leadership is trying to respond to criticisms of Gingrich in the press and on the floor, rather than provoke partisan confrontations.

8.   New leadership is trying to rebuild with revised policies, guidelines and programs.

9.   Pressured by their Southern colleagues, the House Republican leadership may try to save the controversial peanut program by hiding it within an omnibus farm bill.

10.   Such largely supportive votes would have been unthinkable as recently as last year, when the House leadership tried to fund the agency at zero.