Sentence examples for position of presiding from inspiring English sources

The position of presiding justice is prestigious.

Now, she is in the unusual position of presiding over a board that her current patron, Mr. Giuliani, wants to abolish -- a position she has said she supports.

On a recent afternoon at Balad Youth Center, Colonel Sassaman found himself in the unlikely position of presiding over one of the first meetings of the Balad City Council.

Although Mr. Rather's counterparts at NBC and ABC, Tom Brokaw and Mr. Jennings, each moderated forums, Mr. Jennings was placed in the awkward position of presiding over one that was not shown nationally on his own network, ABC, but on MSNBC.

He said: "I'm certainly not going to, at this stage, call for the chief executive to resign but if I were in the position of presiding over a failing trust I would seriously be considering my own position.

Until recently, she said by telephone, "Women had not been in the positions of presiding elder, or pastors of major churches, and so had not made a major impact in our denomination.

Leveson has previously held the position of senior presiding judge for England and Wales.

The project will bolster European gas security and reduce dependency on Russia but it also enhances the position of Azerbaijan, a country whose president, Ilham Aliyev, is accused by Amnesty International of presiding over a human rights "crisis".

Creator: Lost Director: Star Trek, Mission: Impossible III Producer: Cloverfield Lost may be no more, but its creator, JJ Abrams, 44, shows no sign of relinquishing his position as the presiding genius of nerd culture.

Handsome and glib, Dick Clark was their music-savvy older brother, and from that position of authority he presided over a grass-roots revolution in American culture in the late 1950s and early '60s.

This put him in the tough position of having to preside over the newspaper's coverage of his painful public family drama.