Sentence examples for presides over decisions from inspiring English sources
Sir Nicholas Kenyon, managing director of the Barbican, which has enjoyed an astronomical hike in funds of 109 per cent, also presides over decisions.
But the episode underscores the special ethical challenges presented by the Clinton Foundation, headed by a former president who relied heavily on foreign cash to accumulate $250 million in assets even as his wife helped steer American foreign policy as secretary of state, presiding over decisions with the potential to benefit the foundation's donors.
The city asked to have him barred from presiding over decisions affecting the city.
The reason is that most governments fear that it would be much worse to delay than to go ahead.Britain's position in all this will be the more awkward since it is to take the EU presidency on January 1st 1998 and will therefore preside over next spring's decisions on who is to join the euro.
"They are presiding over very expensive decisions," said Catherine A. Mesiano, a land-use consultant.
President Burr presided over initial decisions on such matters as entrance requirements and the course of study, as well as overseeing the move of the College from Newark to Princeton in 1756.
As the amount of the dowry is always fixed by the family council, presided over by its chief, his decision very often settles the question as to the acceptance or refusal of the offer of marriage.
And only one of the country's 22 regional governments is presided over by a woman.So the decision, adopted by a thunderous majority in the National Assembly on May 3rd, to enforce equal quotas for women and men at all elections in France was greeted in some quarters as a long-overdue correction.
Why would the President preside over such illiberal decisions?
Mr. Bernanke is unlikely to preside over those decisions.
He noted that previous courts – for example, the one presided over by Chief Justice Morrison Waite in the late 1800s – produced 9-0 decisions approximately 90percentt of the time.
