Sentence examples for preside as from inspiring English sources

When he came to write his autobiography, he remarked publicly on the idiocy of publishers paying so much money - and he even had a plan once to have several women from his life do a chapter each, over which he would preside as silent, taunting pasha.

I also preside as a jurist in the summons part of Manhattan Criminal Court.

Ariel East and its chunky sister tower, Ariel West, preside as the neighborhood's only bona fide skyscrapers.

Mr. Lester asked Mr. Williams to preside as chairman and to continue to hunt for new merchandise, not least because Mr. Lester looked forward to accompanying him on buying trips to Paris.

Mr. Ormsby McHarg, who has charge of Mr. Roosevelt's contests before the Republican National Committee, asserts that Senator Root will not be permitted to preside as temporary chairman of the Convention if Mr. Roosevelt can prevent it.

The Rt. Rev. John Melville Burgess, who was the first African-American to preside as bishop over an Episcopal diocese in the United States, died on Sunday in Vineyard Haven, Mass., where he had lived since 1989.

Duchamp presides, as enigmatic as ever he was in life.

He presided as well over the growth of Interior Design from a small trade magazine to a newsstand success.

Warren said the Rochester City Council, over which she previously presided as president, had been cooperative in working with her agenda.

The longest stretch where Republicans held the White House and the Senate majority was between 1897 to 1913 – half of those years Theodore Roosevelt presided as president.

Today, Samala presides as President of the Board of Directors for the Imperial Court of Los Angeles a chapter of one of the country's oldest LGBT organizations, founded in 1965.