But regional leaders, like Yeltsin himself, do not exercise power unchallenged.

European leaders exercise patronage authority over the top job at the International Monetary Fund.

Even when Japanese leaders have exercised their constitutional power and overridden the bureaucracy, the results have often been disappointing.

But Professor Fang said that these elderly leaders still exercised tremendous power.

He asserted the leaders of 1010 and 1018 were merely exercising their right to form another union.

Its leaders exercised their authority through gifts of the Spirit, not through office.

That is in part because local leaders in Suffolk County's towns exercise a fair amount of control.

Islamic leaders have entered the political sphere at various times of crisis, but rarely exercised secular authority for long.

Religious leaders should exercise their moral influence but refrain from interfering in political or economic matters.

But Burundi has avoided total anarchy because, so far, the army and its leader have exercised a measure of self-restraint.