Sentence examples for preside for from inspiring English sources

When the board of the Morgan Library & Museum meets on Thursday afternoon, a new president will preside for the first time in time 23 years.

Even in the best-run White House (which this one, clearly, is not), the President's staffers come and go, but a President's judicial appointees preside for decades.

The president of the Milwaukee City Council, Marvin Pratt, will preside for the remaining months of Mr. Norquist's term, making him the city's first black mayor.

Unlike her predecessors, who reigned monthly, Ms. Subways will preside for a year.

Starting in 2001-02, Mr. Spano will preside for 14 weeks each season, Mr. Runnicles for 6.

Countries preside for one month with the rotation in alphabetical order by the country's name in English.

The United States' first president, George Washington, could have presided for life.

For months, he has hammered the president for presiding over an economy with unemployment over 8 percent.

Six months before he died Cardinal Gibbons presided for the last time as president of the university's board of trustees.

Crowell, president until 1922, was succeeded by Stuart's son John, who presided for 34 years, working with his younger brother R. Douglas Stuart, a promotional genius.

Yet he presided for six years over a government whose legacy endures to this day.