Citations:leader

English citations of leader

Lead wild animal

• 1987, Sylvia A. Johnson with Alice Aamodt, Wolf Pack: Tracking Wolves in the Wild, page 41:

  The gesture of licking and nipping a leader's muzzle is similar to the food-begging behavior of wolf pups and may be related to it.

Lead domesticated animal

• 1846, Julius Charles Hare, “On the Comforter's conviction of Righteousness”, in The mission of the Comforter, and other sermons with Notes:

  Still there are many passages in his [Donne's] writings, where it is plain that he forgot to pull in his leaders; and they gallop away with him at times over hill and dale, over ploughed land and waste.

Engineering

• 1852, D. Gilbert, “Geering”, in Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering, page 786:

  when two wheels geer together, the one which communicates the motion to the other is called the driver or leader; and the wheel impelled is the follower

Botany

• 1975, David J. De Laubenfels, Mapping the world's vegetation: regionalization of formations and flora, page 82:

  A strong central leader may result in essentially horizontal branches resembling a "telephone pole."

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French citations of leader

• 2022 August 11, Emmanuel Grynszpan, “Ilia Iachine, opposant russe emprisonné : « Les premiers signes du mécontentement de la population sont déjà visibles »”, in Le Monde‎^[1], →ISSN:

  Ilia Iachine, 39 ans, est l’un des rares leaders de l’opposition démocratique russe à n’avoir pas fui le pays.

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• 2021, Michel Lefebvre, Un expansionnisme commercial et diplomatique qui se développe tous azimuts : 40 cartes pour comprendre la Chine, lemonde.fr (17 March 2021).

  Le tout-puissant leader chinois a pourtant une hantise : subir le même sort que Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, qui, en ouvrant la porte aux réformes, a précipité la chute du mur de Berlin et l’effondrement du bloc socialiste en 1989, et la dislocation de l’Union soviétique en 1991.