Sentence examples for rather than preside from inspiring English sources

In July 1992, as Czechoslovakia began to break up, Mr. Havel resigned as president rather than preside over the split.

It has played out with slapstick speed since the morning after the nation voted to leave the European Union, two and a half weeks ago, and the Conservative Prime Minister, David Cameron, who had campaigned against Brexit, said that he would resign rather than preside over it.

Rather than preside over the building of dozens of nuclear power plants, as was the wont of the big utilities during his first tenure as governor during the 1970s and early 1980s, he put California on a course of energy efficiency (known in those days as energy conservation) and renewable energy.

Mohamed's lawyers suggested that Gibson should be appearing before the inquiry as a witness rather than presiding over it.

Rather than presiding in person, he appeared at the independence-day celebration via video link.Mr Chávez may well make a full recovery.

We need our political and professional leaders to help us face uncomfortable truths rather than presiding silently over the current miserable decline.

Rather than presiding over job losses for these women, Vallaud-Belkacem should be championing a better place in society for them.

When he chooses a position, he sticks to it, as in 2006, when he was criticised for spending Easter giving lectures on a cruise ship, rather than presiding at St Paul's.

Cases in which tyrannicide seems an especially appropriate remedy will be those where the tyrant is a chief source of destructive commands in the polity, rather than presiding incompetently over a reckless and loosely organized military or security apparatus.

(This term has been revived since 1999, but it now refers to the chairman of the voivodeship executive board rather than the presiding officer of the sejmik itself).

I'd rather eat glass than preside over such fruitless pageantry.