1. A suggestion from Rukh, that President Leonid Kravchuk should subordinate the government directly to himself, was dismissed.

2. The orbit of the Leonid shower has been determined from both photographic and radar observations.

3. It was first enunciated by Leonid Brezhnev on his visit to Bonn in 1981 and then subsequently made famous by Gorbachev.

4. Leonid Brezhnev ruled unchallenged in the Kremlin over what was still the Soviet Union.

5. Leonid Pushkin: Then I must die.

6. He and Leonid Brezhnev met several times.

7. Leonid Pushkin: You are professional. You do not kill without reason.

8. Leonid Brezhnev and PW Botha are consigned to the dustbin of history.

9. Partly because the gerontocratic leadership of Leonid Brezhnev failed to start reforms in the early 1970s, when gradualism might have had a chance of succeeding.

10. While Leonid meteors appear to rain from the constellation of Leo the Lion, they can actually be viewed in all parts of the sky.

11. Six months earlier Leonid Brezhnev pledged peace and received peeks on his flabby cheeks from Jimmy Carter.

12. Keen hunter and former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev had trouble with his aim in his later years.

13. The story begins around 1967, when Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union, decided to stage a spectacular midspace rendezvous between two Soviet spaceships.

14. Leonid Pushkin: It is a question of trust. Who do you believe? Koskov, or me?

15. Leonid Pushkin: You are professional. You do not without reason.

16. The most fitting comparison is with Leonid Brezhnev - another long-serving Soviet leader who clocked up 18 years in power(), until his death in 1982.

17. This trait was in evidence last week as the president, Leonid Kravchuk, threw his country into a constitutional crisis.

18. One of the perennial streams that sometime rises to astonishing heights of activity is the Leonid shower.

19. Officials said yesterday Mr Sobyanin had won 51.3 per cent of the vote, defeating the incumbent governor, Leonid Rodetsky.

20. They long for the stability of a period that in fact was known for stagnation and corruption under Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.

21. This would allow Putin to lead Russia for as long as 24 years - longer than the 17 years Leonid Brezhnev ruled the Soviet Union.

22. Longtime Soviet politburo leader and general secretary of the Communist Party Leonid Brezhnev gave a 3-foot-long crystal drinking horn.

23. He negotiated an end, though not a happy one, to the Vietnam war, and began the process of detente with the Soviet Union, even at the price of a kiss on the lips from Leonid Brezhnev.

24. In this spirit Dmitry Peskov, Mr Putin's press secretary, recently talked up Leonid Brezhnev as a "huge plus" for the country.

25. But his critics say he risks turning into a parody of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev who ruled the USSR from 1964 until his death in 1982.

26. SPIEGEL: Monsieur Todd, in the middle of the Cold War, in the days of Leonid Brezhnev, you predicted the collapse of the Soviet system./Leonid.html

27. Hence inhumane struggles by indefatigable doctors to keep ailing dictators — Chairman Mao, Leonid I. Brezhnev, Marshal Tito, General Franco — alive.

28. And when I put a face to the East, I saw the deathly features of Leonid Brezhnev (or, even worse, his terrifying-looking wife, Viktoria).

29. Further domestic and foreign relations disasters led to his replacement in 1964 by Leonid Brezhnev.

30. Critics fear his return could lead to economic stagnation and bring back memories of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev's rule in the 70s and early 80s which preceded the collapse of the Soviet Union.

31. Leonid Brezhnev did the same thing with Kruschev, but used an air force revolver to make his point.

32. The cover of the influential Czech weekly Reflex showed Mr. Obama kissing Leonid Brezhnev, along with the warning, "dangerous kisses with Moscow."

33. In the years following Gorbachev's ascension to the Politburo, three Soviet leaders — Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko — died in short succession.

34. The Leonid meteor shower in AD 2001 was a great meteor burst inaccessibly happened in China during recent several hundred years.