With the rise of the Green movement in many countries, the leaders are also jockeying to show they are friends of the earth.
Several leaders are jockeying to succeed him within his governing party, the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, or ZANU-PF, but no clear favorite has emerged.
After hundreds of years of minority rule by Sunnis in the region, leaders of the Shiites, who make up 60 percent of Iraq's population, are jockeying for maximum advantage in the elections.
The cymek leader jockeyed his dropcarriage into position, ready to lead the second wave with the rest of the extermination fleet.
As Russia's leaders jockeyed for power, the economic collapse continued.
First among those opportunities will be the chance to meet privately in New York with President Bush on a day when some 70 other foreign leaders will be jockeying for the American leader's attention.
The camera panned to the press conference platform, where more than two dozen religious leaders from around the world, all dressed in their native garb, jockeyed for position.
Mr. Bush and the Democratic leaders of Congress were jockeying to put themselves in the best possible position to control the most important tax-and-spending legislation in years.
Arab and Israeli leaders are jockeying for position in a peace effort that, for the first time in three years, is suddenly showing signs of life.
A18 READY FOR BUDGET BATTLE With the first votes on the Clinton economic program coming up, Congressional leaders are jockeying for position and assessing their voting strength.