The balance is likely to be tipped by the Liberal Democrats, but so far their leader,Nick Clegg, has refused to say whether his party would side with the Conservatives or Labor.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

Clinton urged candidates and their supporters to act responsibly before and after the voting and said the United States looks forward to working with whomever the Afghan people elect as their leader for the next five years.

VOA: standard.2009.08.17

Major rifts within the opposition have been cited as the biggest factor likely to thwart efforts by their leader Anwar Ibrahim to win control of government at the next election,due by 2013, although some analysts say a poll could be held as early as next year.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

He said they would rise up at the first sign of a leader who wished to break their chains.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

Mr.Cleveland had been a strong leader, but Susan permitted many employees to make their own decisions.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says at least ten members of Congress have received threats to themselves or their family members in recent days.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

Many are growing frustrated with their conditions. Abou el Walid is a community leader at the Bourj al Barajne.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

But one of the men they hold responsible for their suffering remains at large Karadzic's military leader, General Ratko Mladic.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

In this alternate version of their life, Fiona has gone from housewife to heroine as leader of the ogre resistance fighters.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

Libyans have had 40 years of their Brother-Leader, an autocrat with no official title.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

At a rally organized in the capital by a South Korean patriots' group, participants vented their anger at the North - and specifically, leader Kim Jong Il.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

As new U.S.and U.N.economic sanctions are a response step up the pressure on Iran's economy, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is urging his countrymen to change their habits.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

After their meeting, Mr.Obama said he and the Indian leader had agreed to "work even closer" to share information between their law enforcement and intelligence agencies in the fight against terrorism.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Commentators like the Wall Street Journal's Mary Anastasia O'Grady say Hondurans were defending their democracy by throwing out a president who was aligned with Cuba's communist regime and Venezuela's leftist leader Hugo Chavez.

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

U.S.officials have long said they believe al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and his top commanders shifted their base of operation from Afghanistan to Pakistan's largely autonomous tribal regions after coalition forces invaded Afghanistan in 2001.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

So that's a very tight timeline," Presidents Obama and Medvedev have instructed their arms negotiators to provide a progress report by July when the American leader is expected to visit Moscow for a summit meeting.

VOA: standard.2009.04.08

Prosecutors say he led members of Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front across the border and acted as their effective leader for much of the country's Mr.Taylor's lawyers maintain that any contact their client had with Sierra Leonean rebels ended before the jurisdiction of this court begins.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10