The most dramatic instance was his effort to advance democracy and free markets in Russia by allying the United States with Boris Yeltsin, despite the Russian president's erratic leadership.

North Korea may have the most erratic, brutal and opaque leadership in the world.

He lasted less than two years, the victim in large part of his erratic leadership and inability to work with the national legislature.

In the real world, don't we have a better chance of improving matters of nuclear security if we engage North Korea, no matter how infuriating and erratic their leadership?

Distraught over their worst season in 20 years, and with Brown's erratic leadership, Knicks officials have been mulling Brown's future for weeks.

After the erratic but generally pro-Western leadership of the Yeltsin era, President Vladimir Putin has brought a more nationalist tone to Russian diplomacy.

Breech was the first of a long line of talented and successful number two men who were later dismissed or resigned under the erratic leadership of Henry Ford II.

Gustav Adolf's inept and erratic leadership in diplomacy and war precipitated his deposition through a conspiracy of army officers.

The former electrician and Nobel laureate, who led the Solidarity union movement to power in the 1980's, must overcome abysmal poll numbers that reflect a reputation for erratic leadership.

Mr. Yavlinsky, running by himself, offers Russians a reform candidate unencumbered by the failures and erratic leadership of Mr. Yeltsin.