单词 | political leader |
释义 | political leader (once / 3859 pages) n WORD FAMILY political leader: political leaders USAGE EXAMPLESA study by Robert Brulle and colleagues found that cues from political leaders are the main driver of public opinion on climate change. The Guardian(Dec 27, 2016) He says that African countries need to build institutions and insulate them from the influence of political leaders. BBC(Dec 26, 2016) The gesture of a political leader inspired the whole nation. New York Times(Jun 30, 2016) n a person active in party politics Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper pol, politician, politico Nancy Witcher Astor British politician (born in the United States) who was the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons (1879-1964) Alben William BarkleyUnited States politician and lawyer; vice president of the United States (1877-1956) William Maxwell AitkenBritish newspaper publisher and politician (born in Canada); confidant of Winston Churchill (1879-1964) Thomas BradleyUnited States politician who was elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles (1917-1998) Boy Orator of the PlatteUnited States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925) Aaron BurrUnited States politician who served as vice president under Jefferson; he mortally wounded his political rival Alexander Hamilton in a duel and fled south (1756-1836) Salmon Portland ChaseUnited States politician and jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1808-1873) Charles Joseph ClarkCanadian politician who served as prime minister (1939-) the Great CompromiserUnited States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852) DeWitt ClintonUnited States politician who as governor of New York supported the project to build the Erie Canal (1769-1828) David CrockettUnited States frontiersman and Tennessee politician who died at the siege of the Alamo (1786-1836) Stephen Arnold DouglasUnited States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery; he engaged in a famous series of debates with Abraham Lincoln (1813-1861) Samuel HoustonUnited States politician and military leader who fought to gain independence for Texas from Mexico and to make it a part of the United States (1793-1863) Jesse Louis JacksonUnited States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941) Glenda JacksonEnglish film actress who later became a member of British Parliament (born in 1936) Andre MaginotFrench politician who proposed the Maginot Line (1877-1932) Joseph Raymond McCarthyUnited States politician who unscrupulously accused many citizens of being Communists (1908-1957) Daniel Patrick MoynihanUnited States politician and educator (1927-2003) Mullah Mohammed Omarreclusive Afghanistani politician and leader of the Taliban who imposed a strict interpretation of shariah law on Afghanistan (born in 1960) Sir Robert PeelBritish politician (1788-1850) Jeannette Rankinleader in the women's suffrage movement in Montana; the first woman to serve in the United States House of Representatives (1880-1973) Nellie Tayloe Rossa politician in Wyoming who was the first woman governor in the United States (1876-1977) William Henry SewardUnited States politician who as Secretary of State in 1867 arranged for the purchase of Alaska from Russia (known at the time as Seward's Folly) (1801-1872) Daniel WebsterUnited States politician and orator (1782-1817) Dean Gooderham AchesonUnited States statesman who promoted the Marshall Plan and helped establish NATO (1893-1971) Konrad AdenauerGerman statesman; chancellor of West Germany (1876-1967) Marcus Vipsanius AgrippaRoman general who commanded the fleet that defeated the forces of Antony and Cleopatra at Actium (63-12 BC) Alcibiadesancient Athenian statesman and general in the Peloponnesian War (circa 450-404 BC) Yasser ArafatPalestinian statesman who was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (1929-2004) Kemal AtaturkTurkish statesman who abolished the caliphate and founded Turkey as a modern secular state (1881-1938) Clement Richard AttleeBritish statesman and leader of the Labour Party who instituted the welfare state in Britain (1883-1967) Gaius Julius Caesar OctavianusRoman statesman who established the Roman Empire and became emperor in 27 BC; defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra in 31 BC at Actium (63 BC - AD 14) Viscount St. AlbansEnglish statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626) 1st Earl Baldwin of BewdleyEnglish statesman; member of the Conservative Party (1867-1947) Arthur James BalfourEnglish statesman; member of the Conservative Party (1848-1930) Bernard Mannes Barucheconomic advisor to United States Presidents (1870-1965) Menachem BeginIsraeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as prime minister of Israel) negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar Sadat (then the president of Egypt) (1913-1992) David Ben GurionIsraeli statesman (born in Poland) and active Zionist who organized resistance against the British after World War II; prime minister of Israel (1886-1973) Ernest BevinBritish labor leader and statesman who played an important role in diplomacy after World War II (1884-1951) Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von BismarckGerman statesman under whose leadership Germany was united (1815-1898) Anthony Charles Lynton BlairBritish statesman who became prime minister in 1997 (born in 1953) Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethiusa Roman who was an early Christian philosopher and statesman who was executed for treason; Boethius had a decisive influence on medieval logic (circa 480-524) El LibertadorVenezuelan statesman who led the revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule; founded Bolivia in 1825 (1783-1830) Willy BrandtGerman statesman who as chancellor of West Germany worked to reduce tensions with eastern Europe (1913-1992) Leonid Ilyich BrezhnevSoviet statesman who became president of the Soviet Union (1906-1982) Marcus Junius Brutusstatesman of ancient Rome who (with Cassius) led a conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar (85-42 BC) Nikolai Ivanovich BukharinBolshevik leader in Russia who advocated gradual collectivism of the farms; was executed in a purge by Stalin (1888-1938) Edmund BurkeBritish statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in British Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797) Gaius Julius Caesarconqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC) Gaius Cassius Longinusprime mover in the conspiracy against Julius Caesar (died in 42 BC) Fidel Castro RuzCuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927) Arthur Neville ChamberlainBritish statesman who as Prime Minister pursued a policy of appeasement toward fascist Germany (1869-1940) Francois Rene ChateaubriandFrench statesman and writer; considered a precursor of the romantic movement in France (1768-1848) Fourth Earl of Chesterfieldsuave and witty English statesman remembered mostly for letters to his son (1694-1773) Chiang Chung-chengChinese military and political figure; in the Chinese civil war that followed World War II he was defeated by the Chinese communists and in 1949 was forced to withdraw to Taiwan where he served as president of Nationalist China until his death (1897-1975) Sir Winston Leonard Spenser ChurchillBritish statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953 (1874-1965) Marcus Tullius Ciceroa Roman statesman and orator remembered for his mastery of Latin prose (106-43 BC) Lucius Quinctius CincinnatusRoman statesman regarded as a model of simple virtue; he twice was called to assume dictatorship of Rome and each time retired to his farm (519-438 BC) Georges Eugene Benjamin ClemenceauFrench statesman who played a key role in negotiating the Treaty of Versailles (1841-1929) Baron Clive of PlasseyBritish general and statesman whose victory at Plassey in 1757 strengthened British control of India (1725-1774) Cosimo de MediciItalian financier and statesman and friend of the papal court (1389-1464) Oliver CromwellEnglish general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War (1599-1658) Jefferson DavisAmerican statesman; president of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War (1808-1889) Moshe DayanIsraeli general and statesman (1915-1981) Charles Andre Joseph Marie de GaulleFrench general and statesman who became very popular during World War II as the leader of the Free French forces in exile (1890-1970) DemosthenesAthenian statesman and orator (circa 385-322 BC) Teng Hsiao-pingChinese communist statesman (1904-1997) Eamon de ValeraIrish statesman (born in the United States); as president of the Irish Free State he was responsible for the new constitution of 1937 that created the state of Eire (1882-1975) First Earl of BeaconsfieldBritish statesman who as Prime Minister bought controlling interest in the Suez Canal and made Queen Victoria the empress of India (1804-1881) Friedrich Engelssocialist who wrote the Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx in 1848 (1820-1895) Gaius FlaminiusRoman statesman and general who built the Flaminian Way; died when he was defeated by Hannibal (died 217 BC) Charles James FoxEnglish statesman who supported American independence and the French Revolution (1749-1806) Indira Nehru Gandhidaughter of Nehru who served as prime minister of India from 1966 to 1977 (1917-1984) William Ewart Gladstoneliberal British statesman who served as prime minister four times (1809-1898) Mikhail Sergeyevich GorbachevSoviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms (born in 1931) Second Earl GreyEnglishman who as Prime Minister implemented social reforms including the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire (1764-1845) First Viscount Haldane of CloanScottish statesman and brother of Elizabeth and John Haldane (1856-1928) Alexander HamiltonUnited States statesman and leader of the Federalists; as the first Secretary of the Treasury he establish a federal bank; was mortally wounded in a duel with Aaron Burr (1755-1804) Vaclav HavelCzech dramatist and statesman whose plays opposed totalitarianism and who served as president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 to 1992 and president of the Czech Republic since 1993 (born in 1936) William Dudley HaywoodUnited States labor leader and militant socialist who was one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (1869-1928) Paul Ludwig von Beneckendorff und von HindenburgGerman field marshal and statesman; as president of the Weimar Republic he reluctantly appointed Hitler as chancellor in 1933 (1847-1934) Nguyen Tat ThanhVietnamese communist statesman who fought the Japanese in World War II and the French until 1954 and South Vietnam until 1975 (1890-1969) Muhammad Ali JinnahIndian statesman who was the founder of Pakistan as a Muslim state (1876-1948) Mikhail Ivanovich Kalininsoviet statesman and head of state of the USSR (1875-1946) Kenneth David Kaundastatesman who led Northern Rhodesia to full independence as Zambia in 1964 and served as Zambia's first president (1924-1999) Jomo KenyataKenyan statesman and the first president of independent Kenya (1893-1978) Aleksandr Feodorovich KerenskyRussian revolutionary who was head of state after Nicholas II abdicated but was overthrown by the Bolsheviks (1881-1970) Sir Seretse KhamaBotswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980) Nikita Sergeyevich KhrushchevSoviet statesman and premier who denounced Stalin (1894-1971) Prince Fumimaro KonoyeJapanese statesman who set Japan's expansionist policies and formed an alliance with Germany and Italy (1891-1945) Stephanus Johannes Paulus KrugerBoer statesman (1825-1904) Vladimir Ilyich UlyanovRussian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924) Lorenzo the MagnificentItalian statesman and scholar who supported many artists and humanists including Michelangelo and Leonardo and Botticelli (1449-1492) Niccolo Machiavellia statesman of Florence who advocated a strong central government (1469-1527) John Roy MajorBritish statesman who was prime minister from 1990 until 1997 (born in 1943) Nelson Rolihlahla MandelaSouth African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918) Mao TsetungChinese communist leader (1893-1976) George Catlett MarshallUnited States general and statesman who as Secretary of State organized the European Recovery Program (1880-1959) Golda MeirIsraeli statesman (born in Russia) (1898-1978) Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von MetternichAustrian statesman (1773-1859) Francois Maurice Marie MitterrandFrench statesman and president of France from 1981 to 1985 (1916-1996) Vyacheslav Mikhailovich MolotovSoviet statesman (1890-1986) Sir Thomas MoreEnglish statesman who opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded; recalled for his concept of Utopia, the ideal state Gouverneur MorrisUnited States statesman who led the committee that produced the final draft of the United States Constitution (1752-1816) Hosni MubarakEgyptian statesman who became president in 1981 after Sadat was assassinated (born in 1929) Fridtjof NansenNorwegian explorer of the Arctic and director of the League of Nations relief program for refugees of World War I (1861-1930) Gamal Abdel NasserEgyptian statesman who nationalized the Suez Canal (1918-1970) Jawaharlal NehruIndian statesman and leader with Gandhi in the struggle for home rule; was the first prime minister of the Republic of India from 1947 to 1964 (1889-1964) Second Earl of GuilfordBritish statesman under George III whose policies led to rebellion in the American colonies (1732-1792) Daniel Ortega SaavedraNicaraguan statesman (born in 1945) Ignace Jan PaderewskiPolish pianist who in 1919 served as the first Prime Minister of independent Poland (1860-1941) PericlesAthenian statesman whose leadership contributed to Athens' political and cultural supremacy in Greece; he ordered the construction of the Parthenon (died in 429 BC) First Earl of ChathamEnglish statesman who brought the Seven Years' War to an end (1708-1778) Second Earl of ChathamEnglish statesman and son of Pitt the Elder (1759-1806) Gnaeus Pompeius MagnusRoman general and statesman who quarrelled with Caesar and fled to Egypt where he was murdered (106-48 BC) Colin luther PowellUnited States general who was the first African American to serve as chief of staff; later served as Secretary of State under President George W. Bush (born 1937) Pierre Joseph ProudhonFrench socialist who argued that property is theft (1809-1865) Vladimir Vladimirovich PutinRussian statesman chosen as president of the Russian Federation in 2000; formerly director of the Federal Security Bureau (born in 1952) Sir Sarvepalli RadhakrishnanIndian philosopher and statesman who introduced Indian philosophy to the West (1888-1975) John ReedUnited States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920) Armand Jean du PlessisFrench prelate and statesman; principal minister to Louis XIII (1585-1642) Second Marquis of RockinghamEnglish statesman who served as prime minister and who opposed the war with the American colonies (1730-1782) Anwar el-SadatEgyptian statesman who (as president of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin (then prime minister of Israel) (1918-1981) Helmut Heinrich Waldemar SchmidtGerman statesman who served as chancellor of Germany (born in 1918) Lucius Annaeus SenecaRoman statesman and philosopher who was an advisor to Nero; his nine extant tragedies are modeled on Greek tragedies (circa 4 BC - 65 AD) Ian Douglas SmithRhodesian statesman who declared independence of Zimbabwe from Great Britain (born in 1919) Jan Christian SmutsSouth African statesman and soldier (1870-1950) Iosif Vissarionovich DzhugashviliRussian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953) SuhartoIndonesian statesman who seized power from Sukarno in 1967 (born in 1921) Achmad SukarnoIndonesian statesman who obtained the independence of Indonesia from the Netherlands in 1949 and served as president until ousted by Suharto in a coup d'etat (1901-1970) Maxmilien de BethuneFrench statesman (1560-1641) Sun Yat-senChinese statesman who organized the Kuomintang and led the revolution that overthrew the Manchu dynasty in 1911 and 1912 (1866-1925) Charles Maurice de TalleyrandFrench statesman (1754-1838) Baroness Thatcher of KestevenBritish stateswoman; first woman to serve as Prime Minister (born in 1925) ThemistoclesAthenian statesman who persuaded Athens to build a navy and then led it to victory over the Persians (527-460 BC) Norman Mattoon ThomasUnited States socialist who was a candidate for president six times (1884-1968) Marshal TitoYugoslav statesman who led the resistance to German occupation during World War II and established a communist state after the war (1892-1980) Lev Davidovich BronsteinRussian revolutionary and Communist theorist who helped Lenin and built up the army; he was ousted from the Communist Party by Stalin and eventually assassinated in Mexico (1879-1940) Getulio Dornelles VargasBrazilian statesman who ruled Brazil as a virtual dictator (1883-1954) Hendrik Frensch VerwoerdSouth African statesman who instituted the policy of apartheid (1901-1966) Kurt WaldheimAustrian diplomat who was Secretary General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981; in 1986 he was elected president of Austria in spite of worldwide allegations that he had direct knowledge of Nazi atrocities during World War II (born in 1918) Lech WalesaPolish labor leader and statesman (born in 1943) First Earl of OrfordEnglishman and Whig statesman who (under George I) was effectively the first British prime minister (1676-1745) Earl of WarwickEnglish statesman; during the War of the Roses he fought first for the house of York and secured the throne for Edward IV and then changed sides to fight for the house of Lancaster and secured the throne for Henry VI (1428-1471) Chaim Azriel WeizmannIsraeli statesman who persuaded the United States to recognize the new state of Israel and became its first president (1874-1952) First Duke of WellingtonBritish general and statesman; he defeated Napoleon at Waterloo; subsequently served as Prime Minister (1769-1852) William of WykehamEnglish prelate and statesman; founded a college at Oxford and Winchester College in Winchester; served as chancellor of England and bishop of Winchester (1324-1404) Chou En-laiChinese revolutionary and communist leader (1898-1976) campaigner, candidate, nominee a politician who is running for public office Communista member of the communist party demagog, demagogue, rabble-rousera political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices Democrata member of the Democratic Party Federalista member of a former political party in the United States that favored a strong centralized federal government Labouritea member of the British Labour Party hack, machine politician, political hack, ward-heelera politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends Mugwumpsomeone who bolted from the Republican Party during the U.S. presidential election of 1884 noncandidatesomeone who has announced they are not a candidate; especially a politician who has announced that he or she is not a candidate for some political office boss, party boss, political bossa leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments party liner, party mana member of a political party who follows strictly the party line Republicana member of the Republican Party sachema political leader (especially of Tammany Hall) socialista political advocate of socialism standard-beareran outstanding leader of a political movement national leader, solon, statesmana man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs technocratan advocate of technocracy Whiga member of the Whig Party that existed in the United States before the American Civil War Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin, Grigori Potemkin, Grigori Potyokin, Potemkin, Potyokina Russian officer and politician who was a favorite of Catherine II and in 1762 helped her to seize power; when she visited the Crimea in 1787 he gave the order for sham villages to be built (1739-1791) commie, communista socialist who advocates communism dark horsea political candidate who is not well known but could win unexpectedly elder statesmanan elderly statesman whose advice is sought be government leaders Fabiana member of the Fabian Society in Britain favorite sona United States politician favored mainly in his or her home state Founding Fathera member of the Constitutional Convention that drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 internationalista member of a socialist or communist international Menshevika Russian member of the liberal minority group that advocated gradual reform and opposed the Bolsheviks before and during the Russian Revolution running matea nominee for the lesser of two closely related political offices collectivist, left-winger, leftista person who belongs to the political left spoilera candidate with no chance of winning but who may draw enough votes to prevent one of the leading candidates from winning stalking-horsea candidate put forward to divide the Opposition or to mask the true candidate stateswomana woman statesman write-in, write-in candidatea candidate for public office whose name does not appear on the ballot and so must be written on the ballot by the voters leader a person who rules or guides or inspires others |
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