If federal leadership has been halting, local leadership has halted.

He supported Jean Chrétien for the federal Liberal leadership in 1990.

The nation has suffered from the absence of strong federal leadership.

No longer waiting for federal leadership, the states are initiating local solutions to national problems.

He was a candidate for the federal leadership of the New Democratic Party during their 2012 leadership vote.

In January 2003, he became the first francophone Quebecer to run for the federal leadership of the party.

It'd be a major shock if we reneged on our federal leadership.

In 2006, he resigned his cabinet post and then his legislative seat to seek the federal Liberal Party's leadership.

While the states wait for federal leadership, automakers need to be compelled to achieve what they can in fact achieve without onerous costs.

On January 31, 2006, Tobin officially announced that he would not be running for the federal Liberal leadership.