These become particularly impressive along the Esplanade, the final street before the empty desert stretch that takes you out towards the Man, which presides over the festivities as the main orienting landmark.
We must have met half a dozen times between that first encounter, slightly edgy on my side, and the Queen's visit in 1995, over which he presided as the president of a new South Africa.
All are from 1999, as is the largest piece on view, "La Grande Broyeuse (Mouli-Julienne X 17)," which presides over the show like a dominatrix.
The Indonesian government, which presides over the weakest of Southeast Asia's economies, is rebuffing criticism from international donors even as it approaches them for $4.8 billion in assistance.
After a series of difficult, emotional meetings over which I presided as facilitator, I witnessed an enormous level of compassion and fortitude as the town's residents wrestled with their choices.
Warren said the Rochester City Council, over which she previously presided as president, had been cooperative in working with her agenda.
The radio station at which he once presided as a king has relegated him to the midnight-to-3-a.m. slot.
But for one thing: Mr Smith is the creature of the chancellor, Gordon Brown, and Mr Brown sees the department over which Mr Smith nominally presided as a dependent province of the Treasury.
As the last shareholder meeting in which Mr. McClendon presided as chairman, the event was a turning point for a company that in a decade converted itself from a small player into the second biggest natural gas producer in the country after Exxon Mobil.
A lot of the measures over which he has presided as home secretary draconian anti-terrorist laws following the Omagh bombing, powers against loosely defined forms of "anti-social behaviour", proposals to relax the laws of evidence to make it easier to seize the assets of suspected criminals—have made civil libertarians wince.
