"Of course we know what a vice president does, and that's not only preside over the Senate, and we'll take that position very seriously, also, I'm thankful that the Constitution would allow a bit more authority given to the vice president also if that vice president so chose to exert it in working with the Senate.... .. What on earth was this woman talking about?
"Whoever will be mayor," he said, "will not only preside over the greatest city in America, but a global capital, a world marketplace and destination.
Mr Bush is not only presiding over a huge increase in the size of government.
Mr. Corzine, 64, who not only presided over Goldman but later served in the United States Senate and then as governor of New Jersey, seemed surprised himself.
In New York, the chief judge not only presides over the Court of Appeals, the state's highest, but also heads the administrative board of the courts, which sets judicial policy.
But when he made a success of that, too – during the miners' strike of 1984-85, he not only presided over the defeat of Arthur Scargill but also cut National Coal Board boss Ian MacGregor down to size – she expressed her appreciation by offering him the Welsh Office after her third election triumph, in 1987.
Lay and Skilling not only presided over some monumentally dumb decisions but tried to convince the rest of the world those decisions were, in fact, smart.
Records indicate that some Wodeyar kings not only presided over the Mahamastakabhisheka ceremony, an important Jain religious event at Shravanabelagola, but also personally offered prayers (puja) during the years 1659, 1677, 1800, 1825, 1910, 1925, 1940, and 1953.
Bush's former appointee Elaine Chao not only presided over what has been one of the worst periods in our history in terms of unemployment, job growth, and wages; she also does not favor expanding workers rights.
"The Blair government has been the first very normal and competent Labor government, the first ever Labor government not only to preside over an economic crisis but to actually deliver economic success," Mr. King said.
Brown's failure over the last 10 years has been not only to preside over the build-up of a bubble in credit and house prices, which are now so painfully bursting; but also to have increased public spending from 39%to47%7% of GDP, without improving delivery and leaving no slack in the public finances to absorb the present shocks.
