1.   Over the next few years he distinguished himself as a leading constitutional scholar.

2.   The conference will attract many leading scholars and educators.

3.   Among other writers to follow suit was Gerald Abraham, a leading English scholar of Russian music.

4.   And last year, a leading scholar on environmental economics, Ronald G. Cummings, joined the center staff in an endowed chair.

5.   Arthur Doak Barnett, a leading scholar and government adviser on China, died on Monday at Georgetown Hospital in Washington.

6.   As the leading American scholar on Scripture at the council, he contributed to the decrees that examined divine revelation, ecumenism and religious freedom.

7.   A leading antitrust scholar and a former dean of the Georgetown University Law Center, Pitofsky has brought a decidedly academic approach to his role as a regulator.

8.   A group of at least eight leading African-American scholars will travel from around the nation to meet at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown.

9.   A key player in the controversy is Stanford historian Barton Bernstein, a leading scholar on the decisions behind the dropping of the bomb.

10.   A one-term strategy has some distant historical precedent, said Stephen Skowronek of Yale University, a leading presidential scholar.