Sentence examples for presiding authority from inspiring English sources

The year that "New Documents" was mounted, Szarkowski was the presiding authority in the field of photography, and his platform at the Modern, as MOMA was then called, was nothing less than the seat of judgment.

Andreas Schleicher, the presiding authority over the Pisa tests, has become a global education guru, delivering his findings to political leaders like Moses coming down from the mountain, with his commandments on an iPad rather than tablets of stone.

She was presiding over the authority's final meeting.

While Basavanna's zeal and influence led to the formation and popularity of the Veerashaiva movement in Kalyani, it was Allama who was the undisputed spiritual authority presiding over the gatherings of the devotees.

The presiding officer informed authorities earlier and counting staff were asked to be on the lookout for the paper when the box arrived at the Emirates Arena count.

Rather than join the new central government in 1960, Mr. Denktash remained on the Turkish side, presiding over the communal authority.

Mr Pujol kept his money hidden from the tax authorities while presiding over a foundation that specialised in ethics.Mr Rajoy has sometimes downplayed Spanish corruption as a matter of a few bad apples, but the wave of arrests has forced him to promise action.

Let's remember that the former oil boss, who drew up government policy on tuition fees, has a spotty ethical record – he was slammed by US authorities for presiding over a lax safety culture at BP and subsequently lost his job for lying to a court about his private life.

Mr. Lhota presided over the authority when it voted to raise subway and bus fares and tolls on bridges and tunnels.

She had believed that he was in for a long convalescence, and that the obvious indifference with which the widower's children treated their father guaranteed that she would preside with crowned authority over many months of incremental improvement.

Israeli intelligence officials have briefed their counterparts in Washington on what they say is evidence showing that the Palestinian Authority presides over a terrorist network, one that plans, finances and executes its own suicide bombings against civilians and cooperates with militant Islamic groups.