Sentence examples for first presided from inspiring English sources

The congress will be the first presided over by Hu Jintao, state president as well as head of the party, as China's paramount leader.

The first, presided over by Nelson Mandela, was to dismantle apartheid, reconcile the races and establish democracy.

(Judge Gertner, who first presided in the case, has since retired from the bench and joined the faculty of Harvard Law School).

The congress will be the first presided over by Hu Jintao, who became party leader just after the last one in 2002.

Mr. Mandela, South Africa's president, was speaking during the inauguration of Arthur Chaskalson as the first presiding judge of their country's newly established Constitutional Court.

Two years later White became the first presiding bishop of the new church.

In 1922, the LDS Church's fifth presiding bishop, Charles W. Nibley, stated that "the day would come when there would be so much of disorder, of secret combinations taking the law into their own hands, tramping upon Constitutional rights and the liberties of the people, that the Constitution would hang as by a thread.

The first President Bush presided over the 1990-1991 recession.

And Barack Obama will become the first President to preside over a seder tonight.

Even without a very large stimulus, Obama will likely be the first President to preside over a $1 trillion federal-budget deficit.

Obama is the first president to preside over growth in domestic oil production since President Jimmy Carter, also a Democrat.