Sentence examples for had presided over from inspiring English sources

He noted that he had presided over a similar change for city buses in the 1980s.

His success in the April parliamentary elections followed the disintegration of the precarious centre-left alliance that Prime Minister Romano Prodi had presided over since 2006.

In Newsweek Niall Ferguson, a British historian, declared that the president had presided over "a foreign-policy debacle".

Colombia's ambassador in Mexico, Luis Camilo Osorio, said Mexico's president, Felipe Calderón, had presided over a banana republic fiasco.

Bush," an indignant screed in which he claimed that the hurricane should have been named for the President who had presided over the mismanagement of the calamity.

As President Obama nominated him, he made sure to mention that Lew had presided over three budget surpluses.

This enabled President Obama to grandstand before the American public as the man who had presided over the hunting down of al-Qa'ida's leader.

Mr. Hariri's son, Saad Hariri, had presided over the government for 14 months.

The BBC erroneously reported that Mered had presided over a "multibillion-dollar empire".

Three months later, she sent a letter to a judge who had presided over previous hearings.

He had presided over a worst Africa Cup of Nations performance for 26 years.