Sentence examples for may preside from inspiring English sources

Now he may preside over attempts to remove him as President.

If that happens, Sharon may preside over a further withdrawal from the West Bank.

The burgomaster may be chairman of the city council, or he may preside over an administrative board elected by the city council, or he may preside over a city council but have limited powers.

The state allows lawyers to contribute money to the campaigns of judges who may preside over their cases, and they do so routinely.

Now George Bush may preside over the system's biggest expansion—extending the benefit so that it pays for prescription drugs.After months of haggling in Congress, a deal emerged on November 15th that introduced the drug benefit, along with some token efforts to control costs.

Preston Niblack, a deputy director of the Independent Budget Office, the city's nonpartisan fiscal watchdog agency, said that given predictions of an extended recession, Mr. Bloomberg may preside over a reversal in the improvement of housing stock, at the same time that all but the most expensive housing becomes ever scarcer.

The minister of justice, in his capacity as keeper of the seals (garde des sceaux), may sometimes preside and cast a tie-breaking vote.

By accomplishing the transition from robber capitalism to legitimate capitalism Putin may well preside over an economic recovery; my investments in Russia, including the one in Svyazinvest, may finally pay off.

The King hoped that these teachers would "render her an honour and comfort to her relations, and a blessing to the dominions over which she may hereafter preside".

It is therefore plausible to envision that when p53 is activated upon a genotoxic stimulus, such as γ-rays, MDM2 may not preside to its degradation and be re-directed towards HIF1 α, whose degradation would hence be fostered.

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