In addition, Miss Suu Kyi has been given her own parliamentary committee to preside over, for "rule of law and stability"—something of a poisoned chalice at a time of hideous unrest in the western state of Rakhine (see Banyan).
The first president's wife to preside over the White House for any significant amount of time, Dolley Madison set many precedents.
He expects his descendants to preside over Sealand for many generations to come.
He ordered General Gates to preside and asked for a report, giving the impression that a friend of the instigators would run the show and that Washington himself wouldn't even attend.
When Obama named him chief of staff one year ago, the president praised him as the "only budget director in history to preside over budget surpluses for three consecutive years".
THE mercilessness with which theoretical physicists tear apart one another's work is part of a tradition some trace back to J. Robert Oppenheimer, who left the Manhattan Project after World War II to preside over the intellectual free-for-all at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Mullahs in the Tribal Areas have refused to preside over proper burials for fallen soldiers, because the dead did not perish righteously.
She introduced him to Young, who helped open many doors in Africa, and eventually Hunter was so well connected that he became an intermediary in getting Nelson Mandela to preside over peace talks for Burundi in 2000.
A favourite of the French event, which premiered his 1974 feature debut Sugarland Express, as well as 1982 sci-fi blockbuster ET, Spielberg agreed in principle to preside over the competition for the coveted Palme D'Or two years ago, say organisers.
