The founders designed the presidency to preside over the process of government rather than to govern.
Most often, the practice is for the prosecutor to preside over the process without a judge in the grand jury room.
A: Bruce A. Cholst, a Manhattan real estate lawyer, said that since conducting elections is typically a management function, the board would be within its legal rights in deciding to preside over the process.
Most famously, a young woman, Malalai Joya, called for the "criminals" in the assembly -- a clear reference to the mujahedeen faction leaders who killed thousands during vicious in-fighting in the early 1990's and continue to prey on people -- to be put on trial rather than be allowed to preside over the process of drafting a new constitution.
For example, I loved the line by Francis Collins [the medical doctor and chemist who directed the Human Genome Project of the National Institutes of Health] about what a double pleasure it was for him to preside over the process of unlocking the genetic code, a pleasure both as a scientist and as a religious believer, because he said he discovered something nobody else had known before but God.
The process is presided over by the father of the house (the longest serving MP), Alan Williams.
After his initial decision as to the incidence of the burden of proof, the qadi merely presided over the predetermined process of the law: witnesses were or were not produced; the oath was or was not administered and sworn; and the verdict followed automatically.
But at times it also appeared as though Grassley was taking things very personally — as one might, given that he has presided over the entire process — and wasn't as wary of the potentially bad optics as he perhaps should have been.
Since taking power, the coalition have presided over the exact same process in Britain.
Bill Clinton, the former president, presided over the ceremony.
The idea is that the process should be presided over by a "headmaster", a figure of similar stature to Martii Ahtisaari, the former Finnish president, who led the 2006 Kosovo talks.
