Sentence examples for presiding that from inspiring English sources

And one day, when Al was 5, he was invited to come up front to meet the vice president, Richard M. Nixon, who was presiding that day: "He put me on his knee and was very nice to me, and the experience forever after deprived me of the more sublime pleasures of Nixon hatred".

Cardinal Ratzinger presided that morning over the meeting of the diocesan council.

(The judge who presided that day is no longer alive; the court clerk says she was not present).

Glenn Greenwald, however, urges us to remember that the award can't gloss over "some of the policies over which Obama has presided that are the very opposite of peace".

Justice Fried presided at that trial, too.

Bruce Alberts graciously cut short a vacation to preside at that first Vision and Change event.

It was a measure of the misrule over which the Pakistan Peoples Party PPPP) has presided that nobody came out in support of Mr Gilani after he was ousted for contempt of court.

A visitor once expressed admiring astonishment, after a graduate seminar at which Southern had presided, that young speakers had joined in without giving any impression of being cowed by the great man's participation.

Or so the Senate's presiding officer — that would be Joseph Biden — could rule.

It's a major transformation, and Mike was a key figure presiding over that," said Bok, who is the 300th Anniversary University Research Professor.

The judge presiding over that case, the highly regarded Lewis Kaplan, called the possibility of a delay "stunning," and "extremely troublesome".