Sentence examples for as it presided from inspiring English sources

He went on to run the regulator, the Financial Services Commission, as it presided over credit-card and property bubbles.

For years, Citigroup's board was criticized for being asleep at the switch as it presided over billions of dollars of losses and poor succession planning.

Labour largely ducked talking about the issue as it presided over the biggest influx Britain has ever seen: 5.6m people have come to the country for at least a year since 1997.

Some analysts are skeptical of whether Vietnam will get any traction with its new strategy, especially if it decides to press the issue as it presides over Asean.

There will come a time when the bond vigilantes will simply have had enough of an increasingly dysfunctional political system still acting as though it presides over an unassailable superpower.

Despite having a 10-to-8 Republican majority, it picked a Democrat yesterday as its presiding officer.

He is its principal source of inspiration and invention as well as its presiding genius".

Rejected by Minna, Magnus enters a monastery and, as fate would have it, presides in his priestly capacity at the wedding of Minna and Troïl (whose identity is known only by Minna).

Ludic, bizarre and partially opaque as it may be, its presiding atmosphere is nevertheless such that it would surprise few readers to learn that it was written at the height of the Vietnam war.

Never mind that the unemployment rate in Texas is below the national average — or that Mr. Clinton, as it turned out, presided over an economic boom.

(Republican administrations, as it happens, have presided over all previous redistricting cycles since the act was passed in 1965, with a Republican in the White House in 1971, 1981 , 1991and 2001).