leading player

As a popular former vice-presidential nominee, Ryan could have easily asserted himself as a leading player.

There was a time in the 1960s and '70s when every major case in our courts featured Justin as a leading player.

The director de facto is Plantade; Kreutzer leading player of the first violin, and Baillot of the second.

The next stone of the leading player fails to catch it, and goes away to the rear, dead.

He was the leading player not of his club only, but of all the clubs about.