Sentence examples for presides from inspiring English sources

In cricket as in politics, Pakistan's problems start at the top, with President Asif Ali Zardari, who presides over its cricket board.

It alleges that Chechnya's president Ramzan Kadyrov is guilty of widespread human rights abuses, presides over a personal army of 80,000 fighters and skims off money from the federal budget.

BBC Production, in contrast, is "humming along very nicely", and Bannister clearly relishes the vast sweep of the empire he now presides over as chief executive.

Meryl Streep plays the Chief Elder, who presides over the dystopian community.

Bowen, a member of the right faction of the New South Wales branch of the Labor party, presides over a diverse and multicultural seat in Sydney's west.

Only those seriously into colonial archeology will find the ruins exciting: a derelict Dutch-built hospital, a ruined courthouse where a large cow now presides.

Much of Django Unchained takes place at a plantation named Candyland, where owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio) presides over a horrors how of racist sadism.

Mr Sharon's office has issued a statement repeating that he wants to see seven days without violence before a formal ceasefire can begin.Many Palestinians and foreign observers see that demand as impossible for Mr Arafat to meet, and not only because he presides over an outraged people, where one in three breadwinners is unemployed and one in two Palestinian families is officially impoverished.

The Irish prime minister no longer leads his political party, he is unable to reshuffle his cabinet and he now presides over a minority government whose life expectancy is numbered in weeks following the departure yesterday of the junior coalition partner, the Green Party (pictured).

Almost none of the aging leaders in Amman presides over an economy that can provide these swarming youths with jobs.

Lord Hattersley presides over an editorial board that includes some of New Labour's most persistent left-wing critics, such as Nick Cohen and Hilary Wainwright, two journalists.Catalyst proclaims the virtues of such thoroughly unfashionable concepts as the "policies of redistribution of wealth, power and opportunity".