Sentence examples for he preside from inspiring English sources

Did he preside over "dysfunctional decision making and... a deeply demeaning attitude towards other people" (Wayne Swan 22 February 2012)?

It has now been established that the king was neither educated in arbitrary ideas, nor did he preside over a Tory revival.

Will he preside over the completion of the last pre-Hurricane Sandy cultural institution in New York, or the first to take the storm's sobering lessons to heart?

Johnson will look very careless indeed should he preside over the loss of a third Number One Knacker of The Yard.

Aides to Mr. Dingell, 83, said he had no interest in being that person, if and when the legislation passed, nor, as the bill's principal sponsor, could he preside.

Not only does he preside over Steven's family, a hideous, unseen and unmentioned ringmaster, but he also plays mind games with his fellow prisoners, who dance to his tune when he goads them into a riot in order to divert attention from his escape.

As president, he presided over Czechoslovakia's transition to democracy and a free-market economy.

He presides.

He presides over domestic animals.

He presided over the meeting.

He presided over famine and repression.