Sentence examples for he presided from from inspiring English sources

GAINESVILLE, Fla .— Before a Koran was burned at his modest church here on March 20, the pastor Terry Jones held a self-styled mock trial of the holy book in which he presided from the pulpit as judge.

Mr. Gotovac was a member of all three parliaments elected since 1990, but he also devoted much of his time to the restoration of Matica Hrvatska, over which he presided from 1990 to 1996.

He presides from a raised stage strung with Christmas lights and puff-plastic musical notes.

He presides from a building on Pearl Street in Lower Manhattan named after the man who proposed him for the bench 16 years ago, the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Democrat of New York.

After living in Europe, Luhan returned to the U.S. and began an art salon in New York City over which she presided from 1913 to 1916.

He presided not from his lofty seat on the bench on this day, but from a more paternal angle, sitting across a table from Demetrius and Lanell Johnson and the young boy who was about to become in law what he had already been in fact since he was 5 months old: their son.

He presided there from 1947 until it closed in 1999.

He presided over his empire from the city of Akkad, the ruins of which are believed to lie south of Baghdad.

And he presided over its growth from a start-up with a staff of four into a quirky Goliath with a couple of hundred employees, three channels and a radio station.Mr Lamb had a simple idea: to expose America's public life to the public eye.

As mayor of Buffalo, he presided over emergency relief from blizzards such as the mid-October 2006 two-foot snow storm.

As chancellor of the City University of New York from 1963 to 1971, he presided over the university as it was being transformed from a collection of independent colleges to a highly centralized operation and was an advocate of centralized doctoral programs at the fledgling City University Graduate School.