Sentence examples for instead of presiding from inspiring English sources
Instead of presiding over neglect, library volunteers might want to organise and break it down.
And instead of presiding over an economic disaster, he presided over an economic miracle.
Like many of its low-cost rivals, it now allocates seats instead of presiding over a free-for-all that rewards the sly and sharp elbowed.
Indeed, were she a more cynical sort of politician, prepared to offer sops to special interests and lobbies, she might now be forming a centre-right government on her own, instead of presiding over a tortuous effort to construct a left-right coalition.Ms Merkel's personal qualities, and her steady principles, are all welcome as far as they go.
Instead of presiding around the minuscule kitchen and kitschy clocks that characterized their former bistro, the Sendras — he in a larger cooking space with a window on the dining room, she again in the front of the house — now oversee a sophisticated, contemporary restaurant with soft lighting and conversation-friendly noise levels.
One time Mandel did a radio interview instead of attending the board meeting, and last month he went to a fundraiser in Washington, D.C., instead of presiding over the meeting.
The position of presiding justice is prestigious.
Instead the presiding officer is the prosecuting attorney, who also instructs the jury on the law.
Elected on the slogan "Only Sharon can bring peace," the prime minister is instead presiding over an intensification of the six-and-a-half-month-old violence and urging Israelis to prepare psychologically for a long struggle.
The Government's child poverty watchdog has warned that David Cameron is not fulfilling his post-election pledge of creating 'One Nation' but is instead presiding over a country divided; North and South, rich and poor, investment and neglect.
Xi – a leader so powerful one academic calls him "the chairman of everything" – has instead presided over one of the most severe crackdowns on opponents of the Communist party in decades.
