Despite the resistance, the Republican leadership issued a statement pledging to move ahead quickly with a vote once Republicans were given additional time to work out their differences.

"The Russian leadership issued an order to assassinate the former Chechen leader Yandarbiyev," the judge said, according to news reports.

The leadership of the Church issued a special appeal to believers to obstruct the enforcement of the decree.

But Mucksalmina said that foreigners had nothing to fear from them and that the group's top leadership had issued orders not to harm any aid workers.

The leadership of the church believed Cowdery's report and issued a letter chastising the Twelve.

A few months earlier, the Assembly's Democratic leadership had issued a similar directive.

The Palestinian leadership issued a statement declaring "full condemnation for the terror attack that targeted Israeli civilians."

Mao and the Chinese leadership issued a directive laying out the objectives for the war.

The same leadership issued more than 1,000 subpoenas to the Clinton administration.

In 1989, after the repression at Tiananmen Square, the national leadership issued a document to bar capitalists from party membership.