The lords and leaders departed in ones and twos, talking quietly as they walked out into the hall.
The biggest issue, he maintains, is whether China will stay together or "regionalize" after its present leaders depart.
Moscow's political wars continued throughout the summer this year, filling up the void usually created when the country's leaders depart for their dachas, or country cottages.
We mistake change for improvement, and New York City will be the poorer because of our unwillingness to let the voters decide when a leader should depart.
During the night, the marauding party and their leader departed.
Alidore watched his leader depart.
The manner in which the leader departs can determine, for good or ill, the outcome of that struggle.
"When the Congressional leaders departed that briefing," Isikoff and Corn write, "they looked grim."
"Thank you, brother, for your courtesy," Gunter said softly; there was irony in it, and the leader flinched slightly before it, but nodded and departed.
However, after its failure in the 1979 general election, the NF dissolved into fission and acrimony; the leaders of the 1970s departed or were expelled.