1.2treated as singular or pluralThe leaders of an organization, country, etc.
‘the leadership was divided into two camps’
‘The linkage between a tight ruling circle and the military coupled with oil revenues in the successive regimes created authoritarian leaderships.’
‘Facing those dangers, we can expect no solution from the bureaucratised workers' states and the leaderships that rule over them.’
‘He emphasized that the political and administrative leaderships would be clearly distinguished.’
‘He described the key to initial success as being the existence of a good working relationship between the respective administrative leaderships.’
‘Local leaderships and administrators everywhere were expected to work in the local language, which implied a lesser role for Russians outside the Russian Republic.’
‘The growing support for the protests panicked the government and union leaderships, who began to look for a way to shut down the campaign.’
‘Still, he made the reservation that he did not attend the talks between the leaderships of the two parliamentary groups and was not authorised to discuss the matter.’
‘Their employment was directly controlled by the top military and political leaderships.’
‘But owing to the erosion of the leaderships ' support bases, these countries entered a vacuum, resulting in regression on all fronts.’
‘An upright, strong, willful political leadership is the need of the hour.’
‘I propose a purge of the Democratic party leadership.’
‘The difficulty with this advice is that it assumes minimally responsible leadership at the federal level.’
‘He accused the union leadership of collaborating with management in disciplining casual workers and transferring them.’
‘If the union leadership decides to call a strike, Act 46 requires them to give 48 hours notice.’
‘Don't expect anything better than last season's first-round exit, though, unless the veteran leadership comes through.’
‘Clearly, the leadership does not understand the need to court public opinion in a democracy.’
‘I am rather asserting that the laity feels that church leadership does not know what it is talking about.’
‘He charged that leadership at the highest levels of the academy implicitly endorses Christianity.’
‘The leadership seemed to become increasingly aware that it needed economic reforms.’
‘As do an abundance of fellow Americans, I support my country's leadership.’
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