Sentence examples for its presiding from inspiring English sources

Ludic, bizarre and partially opaque as it may be, its presiding atmosphere is nevertheless such that it would surprise few readers to learn that it was written at the height of the Vietnam war.

They were denouncing Egypt's governing Military Council for its resistance to real change since the Spring uprising (and toppling of ex-President Hosni Mubarak) and especially for its presiding over the recent vicious targeting of female protestors by male soldiers.

Despite having a 10-to-8 Republican majority, it picked a Democrat yesterday as its presiding officer.

"I don't believe they're going to take it out on the Legislature," said Judith A. Jacobs, its presiding officer.

"It's a very challenging time," said its presiding officer, William J. Lindsay, "and we have to see just how he's doing it without any tax increase".

The judicial power is vested in the Supreme Court, composed of a Chief Justice as its presiding officer and fourteen associate justices, all of whom are appointed by the President from nominations submitted by the Judicial and Bar Council.

Officially named Eternal Youth, it presides atop its perch on the building's dome 250 feet above the city.

In its 35-year history, it has rejected 11 out of more than 34,000 surveillance requests, prompting its current presiding judge, Reggie Walton, to aggressively fight the perception it is a rubber stamp.

Now, women may be ordained in nearly all dioceses of the Episcopal Church, and its current presiding bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori, is the first woman to lead the church.

In order to explain himself in the novel, Tristram tells us about his family, and its two presiding eccentrics: his father Walter and his uncle Toby.

A Human Rights Watch report suggested that, when Steinmetz acquired his parcel of Simandou, Guinea was effectively a kleptocracy, with its leaders presiding over "an increasing criminalization of the state".