However his return was not welcome by the established leadership of the party who had become regime puppets.

A meaningful first step would be to reach out to the established black leadership.

Credit voters with recognizing that the established leadership hasn't delivered and should be changed.

Standing by itself it could simply be read as one man in an authoritarian system being too open and too bold in challenging established leadership.

At the same time, he has worked to overthrow the established Democratic leadership, which he believed was too accommodating to the Republicans.

If a potential philanthropist did exist, he might have found it a deterrent that there was no established leadership to whom he could talk.

His independent spirit was seen as a symbol around which the "common people" could rally in defiance of the established business-political leadership.

In the absence of the established leadership, more radical politicians assumed control of the resistance movement within Palestine itself.

Some candidates oppose the established leadership and support immigration restrictions.

The President, he went on, was seeing the wrong people, meeting mainly with the established black leadership.