'presided' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is typically used in formal contexts and means "to be in charge of" or "to oversee" something. For example, "The judge presided over the court proceedings."
President Boris Yeltsin presided over the Kremlin during the bleakest period, from 1991 to 1999.
Now is a good opportunity to show that China will not tolerate the shooting of our fishermen, whether they are from the mainland or Taiwan, and that our government is determined to protect the life of its people".Taiwan's president, Ma Ying-jeou, has presided over a big improvement in relations with China, through increased trade and tourism.
Faced with these threats, the central government in Islamabad, a coalition led by the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), and presided over by its leader, President Asif Zardari, is struggling.
One of the minor literary hits on the Parisian scene in recent months has been a biography of actor-journalist Alain Pacadis, the "punk dandy" who presided over Le Palace, the nightclub that was the Studio 54 of Paris in the 1980s.
Unfortunately both Labour (and the Conservatives before them) have presided over thousands of pubs closing their doors - almost identical numbers, in fact.
Despite prime minister David Cameron's appeal to business leaders to offer their employees a pay rise, O'Grady remains sceptical of a government that has presided over "the longest squeeze on real earnings since the 1850s", as she wrote in the Guardian recently.
Bernstein was asked simply to pick up the challenge and run, to produce a plan for radical devolution to a regional body, formed of Manchester and its nine adjacent districts, presided over by an elected mayor.
Francis will try to encourage those who have stayed, celebrating a mass in the same stadium where St John Paul II presided over an emotional, snow-blown service in 1997 that attracted thousands of Catholic Croats to the city for the first time since the fighting ended.
Formal legal procedures against him were begun, but a deeply corrupt judiciary ensured that he rarely appeared in court and never went to prison for the killings and theft he presided over.
In 1999, presided over by the US diplomat Roberts Owen, arbitrators announced a controversial decision: Brčko would formally be part of both parts of the new state of Bosnia and Herzegovina – the Federation and Republika Srpska – but it would also be a separate "mixed" entity.
As Italians struggle to emerge from their longest economic recession since 1945, bitterly reproachful of the stagnation over which he presided in the years that preceded it, Berlusconi strikes an increasingly irrelevant and absurd figure, even to those who once voted for him.
