Sentence examples for may have presided from inspiring English sources

George Osborne may have presided over the weakest recovery on record.

Martyn Thomas and his colleagues may have presided over the turning of English rugby's governing body into an international joke, but for the life of me I cannot see why they should be deprived of their Christmas bonuses.

It was Robens who may have presided over the shrinking of the industry by half in the 1960s, but it was also Robens who offered up a now-heretical nostrum that Britain should restrict cheap coal imports because it undermined the heavy investment in the domestic industry and threatened the jobs of those who mined it.

Hosius of Cordoba may have presided over its deliberations; he was probably one of the Papal legates.

Perhaps in assessing this lack of conformity the authors of such uncontrolled, hospital-derived datasets should in part acknowledge that experienced clinical decision-making may have presided over the selection for or against transfusion.

Besides, the emergence of the two enantiomeric membrane lipids is presented almost in abstracto as a spontaneous symmetry breaking process, without any attempt to relate it to environmental conditions that may have presided over the emergence of Bacteria and Archaea.

But Mrs Cooper, who said she supported the European Arrest Warrant, nonetheless said Mrs May had presided over a Parliamentary "shambles".

Few dare to predict what unwieldy coalition may replace the one that has presided since 2004.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke has presided over what may be the Fed's most aggressive intervention in the U.S. economy ever, acquiring trillions of dollars worth of securities in a multiyear effort to revive the sluggish economy.

And whereas Mr Chrétien is now 66, Mr Martin, at 61, is closer in age to Mr Day, an athletic 49.Liberal rivalries may now subside, but only until Mr Chrétien has presided over Canada Day celebrations in July.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said this month that if France follows through on the ships, more Russian orders may soon come, a potentially attractive proposition for Mr Hollande, who has presided over a stagnant economy.