| The Jockey Club is the august racing body that presides over equine nomenclature. |
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| What does Rupert Lowe, the club chairman who presides over this delicate situation, make of it all? |
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| Clearly she presides over this field or crop, as she walks through it like a beneficent goddess. |
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| A skull rests on the threshold as a reminder of the wages of sin, and, above, an unkindness of ravens presides. |
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| Paul O'Grady is Ray, bingo caller and manager, who presides over a motley staff. |
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| In fact, a financial oligarchy presides over America, which guarantees its maintenance of political power through the two-party stranglehold. |
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| The Supreme Court chief justice only presides over the trial, he cannot vote when the case is up for resolution. |
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| The chief justice presides at the conference and allocates opinion writing, but he has no casting vote and no power to instruct colleagues. |
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| When the president is impeached, the Chief Justice of the United States presides over the trial in the Senate. |
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| In one square, a large group of men presides over a giant chess set in the sun-streaked shade of a clump of trees. |
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| He presides over one of the weirdest collection of performers ever assembled since the days of the Victorian freak show. |
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| She is delivered to her father, a politician who presides over the policing of his town. |
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| Frances Moran presides here, over a small round table in a room covered with charts, pictures and books. |
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| This government isn't over yet and it presides over an economy which is delivering more cash than the Treasury knows what to do with. |
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| He remains the idol of the Russian armed forces today, and his portrait presides over most commanders' offices. |
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| He presides over an administration that is riven with ethnic, religious and regional rivalries. |
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| Here are the latest thoughts from Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner Bob Hastings, who presides over the coppers manning the checkpoints. |
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| Laura Blackburne, a judge who presides over a drug court in New York City, helped a suspect elude arrest in her courtroom. |
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| She presides over her uptown domain with benignity, unpredictable wit, two-fisted pugnaciousness, and a remarkable insight into the human condition. |
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| Yet, despite his shortcomings, he presides smugly over a programme in which young couples pit their attractiveness against that of their friends to win cash. |
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| A High Court judge presides in all Central Criminal Court cases, and High Court judges already sit in Limerick three times a year, but only for civil cases. |
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| He presides over a sprawling media and sports empire that spans from the Lakers to The Chronicles of Narnia. |
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| And, of course, the vice president presides as the president of the Senate, and casts the tie-breaking vote when there are ties between the two parties. |
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| The Communist Party presides calmly over a nation of deliriously happy citizens. |
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| A walrus-moustached council official presides over the ceremony in Slovenian, continually drifting off-piste, gesturing and chuckling good-naturedly. |
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| While Maye confidently presides over the public trial, her private life has fallen into disarray. |
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| He has sent us a copy of his letter to the union over which she presides. |
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| He also conducts foreign policy and presides over cabinet meetings. |
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| To record the woes of authors and to discourse de libris fatalibus seems deliberately to court the displeasure of that fickle mistress who presides over the destinies of writers and their works. |
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| It clearly does not mean a place where a clerk presides over a court on the record and purports to deal with matters that are before the court for plea and disposition. |
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| The Communion recognizes the leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who presides over the decennial Lambeth Conference, the principal meeting of Anglican bishops. |
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| Mr Li presides over it like a lean-shaven Confucius, grinding up powders and weighing remedies on a delicate pair of scales before dispatching them to the kitchen. |
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| Love presides over the fanciness at the wedding, doesn't it, dear? |
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| In the case of the impeachment of a president, the Chief Justice of the United States presides over the proceedings. |
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| The senior Douzenier is referred to as the Dean of the Douzaine and presides at Parish meetings. |
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| Instead of the Speaker, the chairman or a Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means presides. |
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| The Speaker presides over the House's debates, determining which members may speak. |
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| The chairman presides over meetings of the assembled group and conducts its business in an orderly fashion. |
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| The word chair can refer to the place from which the holder of the office presides, whether on a chair, at a lectern, or elsewhere. |
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| He or she presides over meetings of the assembly, and may be called on in a representative function for the remainder of the year. |
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| The king is also the prime minister, and presides over the Council of Ministers of Saudi Arabia and Consultative Assembly of Saudi Arabia. |
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| The President is essentially the speaker of the Parliament and presides over the plenary when it is in session. |
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| The principal has responsibility for the overall running of the university and presides over the University Senate. |
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| The Chief Minister presides over a meeting of State Executive Council ministers weekly at the Chief Minister's office. |
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| Over the West presides the White Tezcatlipoca, Quetzalcoatl, the god of light, justice, mercy and wind. |
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| Over the South presides the Blue Tezcatlipoca, Huitzilopochtli, the god of war. |
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| Over the East presides the Red Tezcatlipoca, Xipe Totec, the god of gold, farming and springtime. |
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| A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as a part of a panel of judges. |
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| The lieutenant governor presides over the Senate, but only voting when ties occur, and is also a member of the cabinet. |
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| The Lord Chancellor serves as the most senior Lord Commissioner and traditionally presides over the Royal Commission. |
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| Library commish Mary Dempsey presides over the talk, and there's an accompanying video, Staking Our Claim in Cyberspace. |
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| Walsh presides with little judicial restraint on a show you'll find guilty of selective raciness and plenty of laughs. |
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| In fact, there is no separate domain where art dwells, just as there is no higher world over which a god or a demiurge presides. |
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| Higginson presides under the gulpingly impressive title of vice president of finance and business affairs at Twentieth Century Fox for Europe, Middle East and Africa. |
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| Those looking for a little more excitement might be interested in attending a Chinese Gongfu tea ceremony during which a Kung Fu tea master presides over service. |
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| Tresco is famous for its botanical gardens established by Augustus Smith in the 19th century, and his descendant Robert Dorrien Smith now presides over the island. |
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| I need these people, the Sergeant, and Mr. Tighe the shopman in the village, even Miss Broaders, she of the pink twinsets and tight mouth, who presides over the post office. |
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| A steel engraving from the 1850s, which depicts the creative activities of Prajapati, a Vedic deity who presides over procreation and protection of life. |
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| He or she presides over Council meetings and carries out certain representative functions that, in other countries, are the business of the Head of State. |
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| And over the North presides the Black Tezcatlipoca, known by no other name than Tezcatlipoca, the god of judgment, night, deceit, sorcery and the Earth. |
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| As head of government, the Prime Minister presides over the cabinet. |
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| Dr. C. W. Hodoe presides at the weekly speaking of the Junior and Middle Classes, each member of which is, in his turn, expected to deliver original discourses, memoriter. |
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| During the annual Budget, when the Chancellor of the Exchequer reads out the government's spending proposal, the Chairman of Ways and Means, rather than the Speaker, presides. |
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| The Speaker or deputy presides from a chair at the front of the House. |
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