I will comment sentence by sentence. (1) Your *first* sentence sounds OK and means that he did not act as a leader should act. > As a leader, he did not act accordingly. (2) My confusion comes with your *second* sentence: > Even though he was the leader, he did not act accordingly, as he has > all the time. This could mean that he has never acted as a leader, or it could mean that he usually acts as a leader, but not in this one case. If you meant that the leader has never acted as a leader, say: > Even though he is the leader, he has never acted as a leader should > act. If you mean that the leader has, in one instance, not acted as a leader, say: > Although he is usually good leader, in the case of X he did not act as > a leader should. (3) I cannot understand your third sentence: > Because he was the leader, he did not act accordingly and was supposed > to do so (was supposed to not act accordingly. (4) As for your *fourth* sentence: > Even as a leader, he did not act accordingly. This sounds odd. There seems to be something missing; you need to be specific. The first sentence says he didn't act as a leader should act. Vague, but OK. The fourth sentence says *Even though* he was a leader, he didn't do X. The fourth sentence, with "even" implies that he didn't do something that we would expect from non-leaders, as well as from leaders. For example, because this is a family situation you might say: "Even as a leader, he did not set a good example for the children."