But the stubborn Muslim leadership has refused to accept it.

"Because the geriatric leadership refused to make way for younger blood, we lost a generation of potential leaders," he said.

This is a lesson the present leadership in Washington refuses to learn.

If the outside world did not at first grasp its significance, the Israeli leadership positively refused to do so.

Adjarian leadership often refused to pay taxes to the central budget.

The Republican leadership in both houses has refused to set a date for consideration.

The leadership, honoring organized labor's right to strike, refused.

If the military leadership refuses to enter into constructive dialogue with the opposition, then we shall have no choice but to take that decision.

The Russian leadership refuses to react to any of this.

However, the leadership refused to accept the prospect of failure and still hoped to defeat the nationalist forces.