Sentence examples for should preside over from inspiring English sources

He said he would not be supporting her election campaign for the moment "because if such moral principles should preside over the French state, it would be scandalous".

Only the intelligence that comes from the deepest understanding of reality should preside over human affairs, while all the other criteria of legitimacy applied by human societies must yield to it.

When the Garden management was shuffled, it didn't seem right to the directors that Norris should preside over the Rangers, in view of his stake in two rival teams.

Did she find it odd that someone who was a member of a club with the unofficial motto "I like the sound of breaking glass" should preside over the response to the riots?

However, the Pilgrims saw this arrangement as biblical, there being no evidence from Scripture that a minister should preside over a wedding.

The contest among them, which Mr Brown may remain to preside over, should be edifying.

Meanwhile, the cricket board should be presided over by an "outsider".

I have concluded, therefore, that it is better that this important work should be presided over by a new chairman," he says.

The idea is that the process should be presided over by a "headmaster", a figure of similar stature to Martii Ahtisaari, the former Finnish president, who led the 2006 Kosovo talks.

The committee is due to publish a report next month looking at surveillance by the intelligence agencies, and Sir Malcolm said he had decided "it is better that this important work should be presided over by a new chairman".

No one wanted to preside over that.