The national leadership also met and reacted strongly against the protest.

The leadership reacted to criticism and their own fears by introducing further discipline.

The leadership reacted badly to Lorenzo Dow, and Bourne's association with him.

The Russian leadership has reacted to the offensive largely with silence.

Needless to say, a state's political leadership never reacts in an impulsive or sentimental way," he grinned.

China's military leadership has also been reacting to the display of American military might during the Gulf War and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

But the Soviet leadership has reacted tentatively to the seething nationalist troubles.

The leadership has reacted with some criticism but primarily with accommodation, even giving live television coverage to a convention last month that brought the birth of Mongolia's first opposition party.

"Sanctions might work initially, depending not on how severe they are or how the leadership reacts to them," he said in an interview on Wednesday.

Although the Democratic leadership in the legislature reacted with support for the budgetary manuever, they also had to face questions about whether the state was indeed facing harder economic times.