"leader" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He succeeded Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong's first post-colonial leader, who resigned after complaining of poor health.
- He was considered to be more conservative and less charismatic than most post-colonial African leaders, but his policies allowed Cameroon to attain comparative prosperity.
- Nguema may refer to two different post-colonial leaders of Equatorial Guinea:
- The hudud are rarely applied and arise mostly when insecure post-colonial leaders try to bolster their legitimacy by playing the amputation card.
- The policies of Félix Houphouët-Boigny, compared with the post-colonial leaders of other African countries, were more pro-Western.
- Although Ahidjo's rule was characterised as authoritarian, he was seen as noticeably lacking in charisma in comparison to many post-colonial African leaders.
- During his rule, Banda was one of the very few post-colonial African leaders to maintain diplomatic relations with apartheid South Africa.
- French troops even helped depose the country's first post-colonial leader, Jean-Bedel Bokassa, in 1979.
- In 1960, he traveled extensively in Africa making a series of documentaries on the independence movement, interviewing many of the post-colonial leaders including Patrice Lumumba.
- A courtly businessman with little feel for politics, Mr. Tung, 64, has lost popularity since he became Hong Kong's first post-colonial leader in 1997.
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