Early leaders in education, the county's first schools were private.

He will very likely be caught just behind the early leaders.

He held the position for 28 years and is remembered as one of that school's most important early leaders.

He was among the early leaders but then dropped back before running on in the straight.

Many of its early leaders became prominent in political life.

He was an early leader of the middle belt political movement in the 1940s.

He is the early leader in the Yankees' arms race.

The company was a early leader in the mass production of tires.

"That light bulb is just starting to go on with the early leaders," she said.

This is a far cry from what the early leaders of the Movement were trying to accomplish.