Word Finder - ringleader

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A leader of a group of people, especially an unofficial group.

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A person who starts and leads a disturbance (such as a riot), a conspiracy, or a criminal gang.

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The police arrested the ringleaders of the smuggling operation.

He was the ringleader of a religious sect in the village.

In every mutiny against the discipline of the college he was the ringleader.

A firefighter dubbed a " hooligan ringleader " has appeared before a UK court just hours after being deported to England from Portugal.

It was decided that I was the ringleader and should be punished accordingly.

Ringleader of the Tormentors will be getting heavy rotation from tonight.

Some think this may be the ringleader of the group of ' idlers ' that is in mind.

The instrument of his deliverance at last was the ringleader of the mob, the greatest profligate in the country.

The Prosecuting Counsel described me as the ringleader of the riot.

In our summer community I was a ringleader in the rebellion against skirts and stockings for swimming.

The alleged ringleader, Mohammed Atta, does not fit the profile of a rabid Muslim fanatic.

The papal legate decided in 1266 that Siger was the ringleader,.

He declares, it is true, that he had let loose the reins on the neck of his lusts, that he had delighted in all transgressions against the divine law, and that he had been the ringleader of the youth of Elstow in all manner of vice.

One by one the mutinous crews surrendered; and the arrest of the ringleader, Richard Parker, on board the Sandwich, on the 14th of June, brought the affair to an end.l The seamen regained their reputation, and those who had been imprisoned their liberty, by Duncans victory down.

Why is the " terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta " not listed on the passenger list for American Airlines Flight 11?

Three of the hijackers, including suspected ringleader Mohammed Atta, lived in the northern German port city of Hamburg.

The presumed ringleader had traveled to Pakistan and studied at as Islamic school which had a reputation for radical teaching.

Things started to get out of hand so we removed the main ringleader - Simon.

A mutiny at Bombay in 1674 had only been suppressed by the execution of the ringleader; and in 1683 a more formidable movement took place under Richard Keigwin, a naval officer who had been appointed governor of St Helena in reward for the part played by him in the capture of the island from the Dutch in 1673.

Fortunately, however, the government, by dismissing the ringleader, Dr Campanozzi, in time nipped the agitation in the bud, and it did attempt to redress some of the genuine grievances.

In 1853 Raja Tiang Alam, ringleader of the revolt in Palembang, surrendered.

Elizabeth herself patronized Giacomo Acontio, who thought dogma a "stratagema Satanae," and her last favourite, Essex was accused of being the ringleader of "a damnable crew of atheists."

A pen-drawing representing a ringleader of the Pazzi conspiracy, Bernardo Baroncelli, hung out of a window of the Bargello after his surrender by the sultan at Constantinople to the emissaries of Florence, can be dated from its subject as done in December 1 479.