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- adjective Befitting a
leader .
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Examples
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There's all sorts of "leaderly" words that would make me so much happier.
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I join with them in calling for the Republican Presidential campaign to repudiate forcefully and publicly these hate-filled comments and to engage in some "leaderly" crowd control in the days ahead.
Gary Cohan: Conduct Unbecoming: John McCain's Dishonorable Endgame Gary Cohan 2010
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I join with them in calling for the Republican Presidential campaign to repudiate forcefully and publicly these hate-filled comments and to engage in some "leaderly" crowd control in the days ahead.
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I join with them in calling for the Republican Presidential campaign to repudiate forcefully and publicly these hate-filled comments and to engage in some "leaderly" crowd control in the days ahead.
Gary Cohan: Conduct Unbecoming: John McCain's Dishonorable Endgame 2010
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Watch, as this goes on, how they'll position McCain as the seasoned, rock-solid, 'leaderly' type - the perfect alternative to the flashy, no-substance celebrity.
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I join with them in calling for the Republican Presidential campaign to repudiate forcefully and publicly these hate-filled comments and to engage in some "leaderly" crowd control in the days ahead.
Gary Cohan: Conduct Unbecoming: John McCain's Dishonorable Endgame 2008
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They can get their intellectual buzz from the master without really having to work at it; they can bask in his glory, his reputation and his leaderly aloofness.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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A picture of the great leader doing great leaderly things, such as holding “substantive” talks with foreign leaders on “important” topics.
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And I'm sad to report that leaderly honor is in shockingly short supply in the CIA hallways as well -- I remember, quite clearly, one CIA manager in full-on, cold sweat panic at the unfairness of it all when she learned she might possibly have to take the heat for an errant subordinate.
Frank Naif: CIA Director Panetta: Reform Suffers for Bush Apparatchiks and Spy Chiefs 2009
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The Times has managed to write an accusation of political expediency about the least expedient and most leaderly thing any high-profile US politician has done since Gore got started on the environment way back when.
New York Times Responds To Our Criticism Of Piece Slamming Edwards 2009
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