Sentence examples for ideal presided from inspiring English sources

You could view it as almost too convenient, this idea we can just escape into a child-like community ideal presided over by a consumer culture brand, united under a red-cheeked, grinning Pikachu.

It distinguished the ruler, government ministers, and the people as the three human elements making up the state and clearly laid down the duties and rights of each; it thus established the ideal of a centralized state presided over by a single ruler, and it provided a kind of basic law of the nation.

The good devolution example is Catalonia, in Spain, where Catalan nationalist Jordi Pujol has presided over 20 years of lip service to nationalist ideals but done nothing about it.

These messiahs were not thought of as saviours as in later Christian thought but rather as ideal leaders who would preside over a divinely willed and "messianic" socioreligious order.

Mr. Boulez presided everywhere with his usual dynamism and lucidity, and this most chameleonic of orchestras sounded like the ideal Boulezian instrument, lean and incisive.

Surrogate Foley, presided.

Mulisch presided over Dutch literature.

He last presided in Newport, Vt.

Chichi presided over the ceremony.

He presided over the meeting.

Ellis, the elitist, presided over it all.