1.  The US must now take a firm leadership role.

2.  What this country needs is firm leadership.

3.  What most people want to see is determined, decisive action and firm leadership.

4.  Pope John Paul the second has won wide acclaim from outside his own Church for his firm leadership style.

5.  Analysts generally agree that President Bush could have stopped the carnage at the beginning by firm leadership, but he ducked responsibility.

6.  Both former Vice President Al Gore and New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani have demonstrated that they are capable of providing firm political leadership in a time of crisis.

7.  A divided U.N. Security Council cannot provide firm leadership on Iraq.

8.  He was responding to the political realities of the day but also to the popular mood, which demanded firm leadership.

9.  The most basic corruption-fighting steps require only firm leadership.

10.  Wars and economic crises have expanded the appetite for firm leadership.