Sentence examples for order to preside from inspiring English sources

A group of judges will receive special training in order to preside over complex child sex abuses, according to the head of the judiciary in England and Wales.

Hence his remark during the second world war that he had "not become the King's first minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British empire".

Having taken over command of U.S. forces in Afghanistan after the ouster of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Mr. Petraeus is now saying he did not take that job in order to preside over a "graceful exit".

In 1779 he became president of the supreme court of appeals, but except for trips to Richmond in order to preside, he spent much of the remainder of his life at his estate, "Edmunsbury," in Caroline County.

He became an ordained minister of the Universal Life Church in early 2013 in order to preside over the marriage of his X-Men co-star Patrick Stewart to his then fiancée Sunny Ozell.

After Nixon's tour, liberal opinion and the State Department deserted Batista, and the new ambassador to Havana was ordered to preside over his fall.

He could not, they said, take away his authority to celebrate Mass, but he did order him not to preside at confirmations, a ceremonial role that often keeps retired archbishops in the public eye.

He ordered General Gates to preside and asked for a report, giving the impression that a friend of the instigators would run the show and that Washington himself wouldn't even attend.

The role of the central bank is to preside over a legal order that effectively grants banks the exclusive right to create IOUs of a certain kind, ones that the government will recognise as legal tender by its willingness to accept them in payment of taxes.

The primary duty of Speaker is to preside over the House and maintain order in the House.

No fewer than eight members, including the Chairman or another member appointed to preside in his place, must convene in order for the Council to transact any business.