The leaders here canceled their group photo, and some of them acknowledged an obvious degree of distraction.

In October 1992, after he refused requests for more money, leaders of the police union canceled a contract that was supposedly noncancelable.

Civilian leaders also have slashed military budgets, canceled new weapons purchases and forced military-backed companies to sink or swim in the marketplace.

They clashed with police, forcing the leaders to cancel a dinner in the city center.

Catholic leaders then canceled a counterprotest set to take place only a few hundred yards away from the Protestant march.

The surviving Japanese leaders cancelled the attack after such heavy losses and all aircraft jettisoned their bombs and torpedoes.

But the mosque's leaders canceled the visit, citing threats by protesters to disrupt the service.

The Indian leader canceled an official trip to the Commonwealth summit meeting in Malaysia and recommended the election.

The leaders of the House Democratic campaign committee, in fact, have already canceled the committee's annual ski weekend for lobbyists.

For reasons that have not been fully explained, the Soviet leader canceled plans to visit the institution.