If the power of regulating the militia, and of commanding its services in times of insurrection and invasion, are, as it has been emphatically said, they are, natural incidents to the duties of superintending the common defence, and of watching over the internal peace of the confederacy, these powers must be so construed, as to the modes of their exercise, as not to defeat the great end in view.
Webster, in an early edition of his Dictionary, gives as one of the definitions of an editor, a person "who superintends the publication of a newspaper". It is principally since that time that the business of an editor has been separated from that of a publisher and printer, and has become an independent profession.
Toller has been made the vicar of the beautiful and historic First Reformed Church in upstate New York, but it is clear that this is a sort of sinecure, looking after a tourist attraction, superintended by a much larger church, run by the Reverend Joel Jeffers, very well played by Cedric Kyles, who as a standup comic is better known as Cedric the Entertainer.
These monologues are often more interesting than the films they superintend, more interesting even than the films they superintend might have been if they had been made as the narrator wishes they had been.
At public outcry and the objection of Hamilton Fish, Babcock was dismissed as private secretary and focused on another position that he had been given by Grant in 1871: superintending engineer of public buildings and grounds.
Going by sea to Pyrrha, and from thence overland, he passed along the bed of a torrent, where the line of circumvallation was passable, and thus entering unperceived into Mitylene told the magistrates that Attica would certainly be invaded, and the forty ships destined to relieve them arrive, and that he had been sent on to announce this and to superintend matters generally.
Had the same thing been true for our generation - that the pop music that superintended our lives dated from before World War I - it would have been more than strange, bizarre.
He then started business on his own account as a merchant, and during his fatheras absence he is superintending his estates.
Mitz's most difficult job is superintending the rage and exhaustion and boredom that are the almost daily result of others-not-getting-this, much as Mrs. Dupuis superintends her phantom knee pain — privately, measuring out her comforts in little doses.
During the shoot, Baird disappears and Eddie tries to keep the story out of the gossip columns (which are superintended by Tilda Swinton).
The calculation is superintended by a script that automatizes the assignment of input and the interpretation of output, allowing in this way to perform repetitive parametric analyses.
