On his return from transportation, he re-entered Irish politics; was elected in 1870 to the British Parliament, for Meath, and played a leading part in founding the Home Rule movement.
Ferguson took a leading part in the Protestant Repeal Association in 1848 and afterwards became one of the first of Irish archaeologists.
He was one of the founders of the Rochdale Literary and Philosophical Society, took a leading part in its debates, and on returning from a holiday journey in the East, gave the society a lecture on his travels.
Subsequently Sir Charles Bright supervised the laying of submarine cables in various regions of the world, and took a leading part as pioneer in other developments of the electrical industry.
They took a leading part in the French and Indian war, Pontiac's war, the Revolution, and the war of 1812.
He took a leading part in the organization of the Watauga Association, the earliest organized government within the state, and afterward served in Dunmore's war, taking part in the bloody battle of Point Pleasant in 1774.
During the reigns of the first two Georges political morality was at so low an ebb that it was difficult for the clergy to take a leading part in politics without injury to their spiritual character.
We are particularly solicitous to have the United States take a leading partin this development.
We took a leading part in laying the foundation on which it rests in the establishment of The Hague Court of Arbitration.
In the wonderful military events, in which during the next seven years Sir Arthur was to play a leading part, the comparatively unimportant particulars of his Irish Secretariate have been long since forgotten.
He had borne a leading part in the restoration of his father, but surely not to this end--the exclusion of the male succession.
On the evening of the 14th of October, he expired, in the 68th year of his age, leaving a public reputation as free from blemish as ever did any man who had acted a leading part, in times like those through which he had passed.
After undergoing various extensions from time to time, and playing a leading part in the industrial expansion of the district it served, it was incorporated into what is now the North-Eastern Railway system.
In these books, sexual misconduct plays a leading part.
In his seminal dreams, the image of the rose always played a leading part.
In children, as in adults, the object which is sexually exciting in the waking state plays a leading part in the sexual dream.
It is the concern of all of us, and especially of those nations which are strong enough and enlightened enough to take a leading part in human affairs, to work towards the initiation and the organisation of this immense effort.
It would appear that at the dawn of European civilisation women were taking a leading part in the evolution of human progress.
As a member of the legislature and of the constitutional convention, he took a leading part on committees and in debate.
It was the first campaign in which a woman took a leading part.
He took a leading part in the suppression of the Indian mutiny of 1857, holding for some time the command of the cavalry division, and afterwards of a movable column of horse and foot.
He took a leading part in the modern revival of the Hebrew language and culture.
On the other hand, we find pronounced unbelievers taking a leading part in wise reforms, and devoting their lives to researches that will benefit humanity.
It is belief, not unbelief, that has played a leading part in creating this chaos, and in stirring up man's cruellest passions.
At the age of seventeen he went to the university of Gottingen, where he spent a little over a year; he joined the corps of the Hannoverana and took a leading part in the social life of the students.
The measures for the rehabilitation of the states that had seceded from the Union occupied the chief attention of Congress for several years, and Blaine bore a leading part in framing and discussing them.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leading part" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
