Direction: In the question below, there are two statements. Each statement consists of two blanks. You have to choose the option which provides the correct set of words that fit both the blanks in both the statements appropriately and in the same order making them meaningful and grammatically correct. 

Our political leadership must never blindly ________ the leaders of the ________. 

Putting his ________ in God and taking the bull by the horns, the gladiator defeated many ________.