The stipends are unseemly at best; they allow leaders who appoint committees to reward their friends.

The technique allowed senior leaders from the state to negotiate with candidates for preferential treatment.

The comptroller or an independent budget office should be certifying state revenues, instead of allowing political leaders to invent their own numbers.

It is one thing to make humanitarian gestures that allow leaders to grandstand.

Summit talks have the obvious value of allowing leaders to discuss (not negotiate) problems directly.

They must, therefore, allow elected leaders to follow their instincts, almost regardless of their ability, ideology or methods.

Twenty years later, the city's fiscal crisis allowed financial leaders to implement "a general corporatist approach" that reduced city jobs and services.

Since the starvation has generally subsided, those officials reason, why not allow local leaders to trade?

The school board does not allow religious leaders to lead prayer sessions within schools.

Nationalism and militarism dominates the politics, which has allowed sinister leaders to take charge.