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leading

The leading note is the seventh note in a scale, the note above the submediant and below the tonic.

leading

(= prima, star, starring, stellar) indicating the most important performer or role the leading man prima ballerina prima donna a star figure skater the starring role a stellar role a stellar performance (= preeminent) greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement our greatest statesmen the country's leading poet a preeminent archeologist going or proceeding or going in advance; showing the way we rode in the leading car the leading edge of technology (= ahead) having the leading position or higher score in a contest he is ahead by a pawn the leading team in the pennant race (= lead) thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing (= leadership) the activity of leading his leadership inspired the team

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Simple sentences

Sami was sitting on the steps leading up to the court.
Bob will play the leading role for the first time in the next school festival.
Boeing has calculated the chances of a series of crew errors leading to CFIT.
The highway leading to the city is now free of fallen rocks.
All the roads leading into the city are full of cars.
My sister played the leading character.
They are leading a loose life.
He is leading a life of ease.
He's leading a dog's life.
They honored him as their leading statesman.
She is looked on as the leading authority on the subject.
Suicide is a leading cause of death in the country with the longest life expectancy.
Road traffic injuries are a major public health problem and a leading cause of death.
Tell him that I have perished and that my cadaver is now being used by medical students at a leading Catholic university.
Is this the street leading to the station?
The prosecutor asked me a leading question.
The anger of the people exploded, leading to a series of riots.
Have you read the leading article in today's paper?
She was leading her grandmother by the hand.
The mother is leading her child by the hand.
Brilliant papers by Comrade Stalin allowed Soviet linguistics to take the leading position in the world.
Do you like the people leading the country?
You wake up lying on the rocky floor of a dark cave. A little light filters down from above. You can just make out a couple of openings leading away from the cave. What do you do now?

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All of our searching is leading to one ultimate goal.. finding intelligent life somewhere in the vastness of the universe.
I'm personally leading a trauma team down to the incident now.
Is this who you want leading your city for another four years?
Chief Constable Davis will be leading the manhunt for your. Detective Murdoch.
A black lake, hidden from man and the sun, leading to the Phantom's rendezvous.
Now, here is the main road leading out of Cocoanut Manor.
Now, here is a little peninsula, and here is a viaduct leading over to the mainland.
I say here is a little peninsula, and here's a viaduct leading over to the mainland.
Our Father, we thank thee for leading us to this land of promise, for guiding our footsteps safely through the dangers of our pilgrimage.
I saw a light, but I could not see where it was leading.
A hundred doors leading to one hall.
They say if he'd only give up airplanes, songwriting and leading orchestras that he could name his own figure.
Well, Julio's leading the planes.
Your new leading lady, folks.
There should be a corridor somewhere leading underground.
She's leading her husband, who she wants to hide, to the exit. He escapes unseen.
Lay out a course for best drainage, then throw up a bridge over the creek and cut through a road leading back to the compound, for shortest and easiest hauling.
Whale remembered Claude Rains, and discovered that he had made a screen test for RKO Radio Pictures for the leading male role in A Bill of Divorcement in 1932.
We've now moved from melodrama into knockabout comedy, with the invisible man leading us through a parade of Whale's expertly choreographed physical wire effects, all carefully rigged and executed by Al Johnson and Bob Laslow.
Morris was a leading player, who had come from the theatre to Hollywood.
Harrigan had become a leading man on the Broadway stage by his 21st birthday.
When director James Cameron selected the 86-year-old Gloria for a leading role in Titanic in 1996, yet another phase of her careers began.
But based on items in the files of the British Film Institute Rains was eighth billed and played a drunken loafer who, while applying for a job, gives some revealing and dramatic information about the leading character.
That's what I'm leading up to.
I've been guilty of leading you down the garden path.
And he may permit me to select my leading lady.
The leading lady arrives to sign her contract.
Well, my boy, I see that you know your leading lady, huh?
We've gotta have new faces in our pictures especially new leading men.
The public is tired of handsome, curly-haired leading men.
The leading lady hasn't shown up.
You've got to have a great leading man.
I think I used to despise you all, with your little whims and desires, all leading up to nothing.
Praise heaven for leading me to you!

News and current affairs

According to Gleb Pavlovsky, the Putin regime's leading ideologist, the current Russian system is perfect in all respects but one: it doesn't know its enemies.
At the same time, Bush's emphasis on a one-dimensional, militarized approach to global problems has fueled unrest and instability throughout the Islamic world, leading to increased terrorism in Turkey, North Africa, Saudi Arabia, and Southeast Asia.
Indeed, Poland has secured a leading role in Iraq's occupation.
Decreased rates of household formation - young Americans, for example, are increasingly moving back in with their parents - depress housing prices, leading to still more foreclosures.
Ten leading international energy companies, indeed, will participate in the privatization of the first group of companies.
This means that once predator species become depleted, fishing pressure shifts towards plant-eating fish species, leading to precipitous declines in the numbers of herbivores on coral reefs.
These risks are already exacerbating the economic slowdown: equity markets are falling everywhere, leading to negative wealth effects on consumption and capital spending.
Increasing risk aversion is leading economic agents to adopt a wait-and-see stance that makes the slowdown partly self-fulfilling.
A technological breakthrough - the steam engine, computers, the Internet - may play a leading role.
Soaring energy prices, for example, have become a leading inflation risk.
It would also trigger uncontrolled regional nuclear proliferation, with Saudi Arabia and Egypt leading the way.
In many countries, this is leading to a new round of austerity - policies that will almost surely lead to weaker national and global economies and a marked slowdown in the pace of recovery.
Simply put, surging capital flows into the US artificially held down interest rates and inflated asset prices, leading to laxity in banking and regulatory standards and, ultimately, to a meltdown.
Consider former US Vice President Al Gore, for example, whose documentary film on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, is celebrated for its unflinching look at how fossil fuel consumption is leading mankind to the brink of catastrophe.
The EU's legitimacy problem has two different aspects: apathy, leading to a low turnout in the European parliamentary elections, and outright euro-skepticism.
Moreover, commodity booms frequently produce ugly politics in countries with weak institutions, leading to costly struggles for resource rents, which are rarely invested wisely.
Of course, markets would view any rescheduling without a credible adjustment program merely as a prelude to a real default later on, thus leading to an even higher risk premium.
NEW YORK - The campaign to ensure that companies engaged in extractive activities disclose all of their payments in their host countries is gaining momentum - and France is leading the effort.
His hard-line approach isolated Japan and angered China, leading to an outburst of anti-Japanese demonstrations in China in 2005.
MILAN - By 2050, Brazil and Mexico will be among the world's six leading economies, according to analysts at the investment bank Goldman Sachs.
But the debtor countries are nonetheless obliged to service these debts by whatever means necessary, including more borrowing and further entanglement, leading to further impoverishment.
The Japanese economy has, in fact, been on the leading edge of many of the more serious problems that have afflicted the global economy in recent years.
In early February, the United Nations Environment Program will convene some of the world's leading economists at the UN's headquarters in New York.
Numerous opinion polls show Park Geun-hye of the ruling Grand National Party (GNP) to be the leading candidate.
The name comes from the number of parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that, according to Jim Hansen, perhaps the world's leading climate scientist, we should not exceed if we are to avoid potentially catastrophic climate change.

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