Sentence examples for presiding a from inspiring English sources

Today's ceremonies are to be more elaborate and celebratory: a Mass of Installation with Archbishop Egan presiding, a procession of 700 priests and an audience of 3,500, including eight cardinals and hundreds of other church dignitaries, as well as scores of public officials and other invited guests.

Biden was inaugurated to a second term in the early morning of January 20 , 2013 at a small ceremony in his official residence with Justice Sonia Sotomayor presiding (a public ceremony took place on January 21).

She set the standard for cruelty and debauchery in a woman presiding over a plantation.

I consider him a vulture presiding over a carcass.

You are a broken man, presiding over a broken society.

He is a wily tactician presiding over a pragmatic Commission.

James was depicted as a Catholic sympathiser, presiding over a corrupt court.

The Germans found themselves presiding over a devastated country and a mountain of guilt.

The alternative was the establishment of what White (2006:60) calls a "market-friendly state presiding over a predominantly capitalist economy".

Both were generals presiding over a defining war and two-term presidents presiding over a defining peace.

President George H.W. Bush presided over a sour economy but an average market.