Mole-rats are the only known mammals to live in large colonies presided over by a queen. |
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Alexander felt that the dismemberment of Poland, over which his grandmother Catherine had presided, had been a shameful act. |
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Two graduation ceremonies will be held in the University Great Hall and will be presided over by the Chancellor of the University. |
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I have cooked and presided over a good many family meals myself since those days. |
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Our fathers presided over the ruthless deracination of political reportage in this country, and we intend to make amends during this campaign. |
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He has presided over the transition of the team from one glorious generation to the next in exemplary fashion. |
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For many years, David Harris has been like an adopted son around our home and has presided at the piano on many occasions for us. |
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The Labour government has presided over a widening of the gap between rich and poor. |
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They were found to have presided over miscarriages of justice that led to wrongful imprisonments. |
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That is why they conducted inspections of all the villages they presided over. |
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Almost half were in Texas and presided over by Bush, as governor, before he was elected to the White House. |
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McManus and four other top administrators presided from chairs usually reserved for council members. |
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Three judges in black robes presided from a bench under the red-and-gold emblem of the People's Republic of China. |
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He has presided over a marked increase in public cynicism about politics without suffering significant damage to his own electoral prospects. |
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True, he presided over the Cauvery River Authority and asked Karnataka to release 9,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu every day. |
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No Caribbean leader since the founding fathers has presided over Caricom with the sagacity of Percival Patterson. |
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Who, with an iron-like grip, presided over the single most successful era in Australian test cricket history? |
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Rock music is a harsh world, presided over by a fickle, unforgiving public. |
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His tenure at the Ministry of the Navy was a complete failure and he presided over the cultural pillage of Italy and Egypt. |
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The Metropolitan Police commissioner presided over the death of a demonstrator at the hands of police in 1887 in Trafalgar Square. |
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The commissioners presided over Traffic Courts, and were required to take a number of factors into account when determining applications. |
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The young judge who presided over the proceedings had difficulty controlling the subject of his attention, and spent most of the time perspiring. |
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Yet as Paymaster General she has presided over some of the most draconian taxation legislation in centuries. |
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The court, usually presided over by peers, had professional lawyers as clerks. |
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For years, Olson presided over talented teams that were notorious for choking in big games. |
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It will be presided over by the Supreme Court chief justice, who will act as the judge. |
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And very few of them are presided over by local aristocrats or clan chiefs. |
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Now and again, his voice lifts like a hillbilly choir or a candlelit revival presided over by David Crosby. |
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He has noted many changes since he first took up the chalk and has presided over much in the way of change in the provision of education. |
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In Ireland a chancellor presided over a separate court of equity which mirrored the development of the English equity system. |
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His grasp of finance stood him good stead when he presided over the wartime Board of Trade. |
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As is well known, he has presided over more than 130 executions during his tenure in the Texas state house. |
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The court customary was the court for unfree tenants or villeins and was presided over by the lord's steward or bailiff. |
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The meeting was presided over by chairman Brendan McNulty, who welcomed the delegates. |
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The meeting which was very well attended was presided over by the chairman Martin Nyland. |
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Chen was elected with just a plurality in a three-man race in 2000 and has since presided over an economic slump. |
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Scotland's Lord Justice General recently presided over the bench of five senior judges who heard and ruled on the Lockerbie appeal. |
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Motheral left the bench shortly after she presided over the controversial case last August involving then-State Rep. |
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As Archbishop of Tirana and All Albania, His Beatitude has presided over the resurrection of this Church. |
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The expert master of ceremonies presided over this sale where he encouraged brisk purchasing. |
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In the vast basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano the priests bustled like beetles around the baldacchino as they presided over Midnight Mass. |
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The new chairman of the airline may be remembered as the axeman who presided over the shedding of 3,200 jobs. |
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She presided over a quiet part of Ireland, and though it was not without its problems, extremely awful things didn't often happen. |
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They have presided over a vast increase in the number and salaries of public sector employees. |
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Our pagan ancestors had a wild and boozy time presided over by the Lord of Misrule, who got up to rude and mischievous pranks. |
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Some of our parishes are dull little affairs presided over by a fearful clergy and laity. |
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The first Labour government, which presided over our centennial celebrations, saw the planting of many a kauri or pohutukawa. |
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The Magistrate's Court is presided over by a Magistrate or a Jurat as an Assistant Magistrate. |
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And he supported at the beginning a criminal military junta, the junta which was presided over by Ongania. |
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He presided over a criminal courtroom where, as in most such courtrooms in Los Angeles, defendants were railroaded by false testimony by cops. |
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Take Stanley, a therapist, who presided over the death of a patient who swallowed 15 Seconal tablets, but who failed to take an anti-emetic, to prevent vomiting. |
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The no-nonsense Belvin Perry Jr. presided over the tangled proceedings with aplomb. |
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His case was sent to branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court presided over by Judge Salavati. |
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Nobody remembers who presided over the 2008 Games in Beijing and only a few might recall Brezhnev in Moscow. |
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The songs they sang were traditional and tied in with pre-Victorian mid-winter celebrations where the Lord of Misrule presided over jollities which were rather wild at heart. |
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In England, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, and in France, Marie Paul Lavoisier presided over such salons and made a name for themselves as scientific adepts. |
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A sizeable number of cattle rearers besides officers of the department attended the camp, presided over by the Chief Animal Husbandry officer, Varmul. |
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Shawn shone in ivory-colored silk, and she spoke her vows bravely to Justice of the Peace Bill Bailey, who presided. |
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He presided over my graduation ceremony last year, toffed up in some ridiculous gown like he's the most educated man in Britain, rather than a bit of a prat. |
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When Confederates surrendered, the same flag presided over the loyalty oaths that brought rebels back into a national community of the red, white, and blue. |
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The bottom line is that it has presided over the largely unnecessary slaughter of 7.7 million animals, yet it cannot confirm foot-and-mouth has been eliminated. |
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There will be 20 TVs to watch the game, an open bar, and food stations presided over by Chef Mina Newman. |
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A group of vagabonds and derelicts inhabit a shelter in Moscow, presided over by a fanatical leader who preaches the love of everyone for everyone. |
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In two other instances, the judges had financial ties with law firms working on cases over which they presided. |
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There can only be one Kingdom of worth and that is the Kingdom of Heaven presided over by God the Father flanked by God the Son and the Holy Ghost. |
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Only a few people came to observe a tightly guarded ceremony held in the town's Hiraq square, presided over by Regent Tarmizi Akarim and attended by local dignitaries. |
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When the prime minister who presided over all of this is hailed as a statesperson and visionary, are we not laying the foundations for full-blown fascism? |
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The Assize courts were presided over by High Court judges out on circuit. |
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A significant group of Frankish legal codices reflects the activity of a small group of scribes presided over by the cancellarius and associated with the royal court. |
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As if to allow their predictions to come true, the international community has presided over the coming to pass of a deteriorating socio-economic climate for young people. |
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This is why King Oswy chaired and arbitrated the discussions in Whitby, just as continental rulers habitually convoked and presided over ecclesiastical councils. |
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No doubt Thompson would have considered the former Rugby Park manager a dead loss across August as he presided over four straight league defeats for the Easter Road club. |
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His government had presided over rising unemployment and mass sackings. |
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For 15 years he presided at the largest church organ in the world as Choirmaster and Organist of the Cadet Chapel at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. |
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If this man worked in the private sector and had presided over repeated financial debacles of a similar magnitude, he would have been invited to resign years ago. |
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The area in front of the bus had been transformed into a playground presided over by den mother Juanita Cuervo, the name Armstrong had given to girlfriend Sheryl Crow. |
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Regal figures rise from the assembled Gorsedd of the Bards of the Isle of Britain, dressed in billowing robes of white, blue and green, presided over by the Arch-Druid. |
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An energetic ruler, he dispatched naval expeditions to Sri Lanka and presided over the military and mercantile expansion of the Pallava dominions. |
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This was the highest tribunal of the Forests, and the Chief Justice in Eyre, who presided at it, was at the head of this division of the English legislature. |
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A Vice Admiralty Court was quickly convened, presided over by Tobias Knight and the Collector of Customs. |
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Former player Willie Miller took over in 1992 and presided over two seasons where Aberdeen came close to winning the title. |
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The Lord High Steward merely presided at trials, and the whole House could vote. |
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Firstly, there are those that, during the Medieval period as now, were governed by a body of secular clergy or chapter, presided over by a dean. |
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King Oswiu presided over the synod and acted as the final judge, who would give his royal authority in support of one side or the other. |
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The local government is presided over by Fernando Clavijo, the current President of the Canary Islands. |
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Rugby Fives continues to have a good following with tournaments being run nationwide, presided over by the Rugby Fives Association. |
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The Lawspeaker, elected for three years at a time, presided over the assembly and recited the law of the land. |
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The quarter sessions in each county were made up of two or more justices of the peace, presided over by a chairman, who sat with a jury. |
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The Marathon will be presided over by the retired President Mzee Ali Hassan Mwinyi who is the patron of the Rotary Dar Marathon. |
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The Alemanni during the Roman Empire period were divided into a number of cantons or goviae, each presided by a tribal king. |
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Trajan, Roman emperor who presided over the greatest expansion in Roman history. |
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The thing's negotiations were presided over by the lawspeaker and the chieftain or the king. |
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From the early Middle Ages there had been a Supreme Court of Justice for the Empire, the Hofgericht, in which the Emperor himself presided. |
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The Chairing and Crowning ceremonies are the highlights of the week, and are presided over by the Archdruid. |
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It is presided over by the Lord Mayor, who is elected for a yearly term and resides in Dublin's Mansion House. |
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The Governor also presided the Real Audiencia do Reino de Galicia, a royal tribunal and government body. |
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They are trials in the full judicial sense, presided over by a judge with an expert jury of assayers. |
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The constitution also provides for the establishment of village or island courts presided over by chiefs to deal with questions of customary law. |
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The Lord High Steward presided, but the entire House could decide all legal, factual or procedural disputes. |
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Within each sheriffdom are sheriff court districts, each with a court presided over by one or more sheriffs. |
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She had attended a conference of psychs at which he had presided and they had taken a fancy to each other. |
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Oliver Cromwell had thus inadvertently presided over the creation of a basis for the future parliamentary government of England. |
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They presided over synods of bishops, and were granted special privileges by canon law and sacred tradition. |
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For civil, commercial and criminal cases presided over by a panel of judges the right address is Honorable Court. |
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Despite being partially paralysed down one side, he presided over a Cabinet meeting the next morning without anybody noticing his incapacity. |
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Henry personally presided at the trial of John Lambert in November 1538 for denying the real presence. |
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Benefiting from favourable international conditions, he presided over an age of affluence, marked by low unemployment and high if uneven growth. |
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The sitting is presided over by the Chairman of Ways and Means, rather than the Speaker of the House. |
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He was kept in exile in Switzerland until 1950, while his brother Prince Charles presided as regent. |
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Each sheriff court is presided over by a sheriff, who is a legally qualified judge, and part of the judiciary of Scotland. |
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The area had previously been an urban sanitary district presided over by the Local Board of Health. |
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It was presided over by King Oswiu, who did not engage in the debate but made the final ruling. |
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Each district is presided over by a chair, except the large London District which has three chairs. |
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These double monasteries were presided over by abbesses, some of the most powerful and influential women in Europe. |
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Togolese Prime Minister Komi Selom Klassou presided over the opening ceremony of the trade fair. |
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Lekgotla were tribunals consisting of seniors in the neighbourhood who presided over disagreements and rendered a verdict. |
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The governing structure of the church is based on dioceses, each presided over by a bishop. |
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Custumals were commissioned by lords who presided as lay judges over manorial courts in order to inform themselves about the court process. |
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It was presided over by the Reverend Canon O' Sullivan, the Vicar General of St Chad's, who was a committed Home Ruler. |
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Having a personal interest in law, he presided at public trials, and issued up to twenty edicts a day. |
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In 1846 he was knighted, and in the same year he presided over the meeting of the British Association at Southampton. |
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The sheriff courts are presided over by the Sheriffs Principal, Sheriffs, and Summary Sheriffs. |
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Muqadir Shah Muqadir presided the literary sessions while Qandahar Afridi was the chief guest of the ceremony. |
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After winning the 1995 mayoral election, Brown presided over the boomiest of cities in the boomiest of times. |
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The court, presided over by one or more judges, makes findings of law based upon the applicable law. |
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This would be presided over by the king if he happened to be present in the cantref, or if he was not present by his representative. |
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The earliest year for which a presiding officer has been identified is 1258, when Peter de Montfort presided over the Parliament held in Oxford. |
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Walpole was alleged to have presided over an immense increase in corruption and to have enriched himself enormously whilst in office. |
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The druids presided over human or animal sacrifices that were made in wooded groves or crude temples. |
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However, his last work, a picture of a council of war presided over by the admiral, was recovered almost undamaged. |
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Such rights are determined by a special Court of Claims, over which the Lord High Steward traditionally presided. |
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Attended by 600 people, it was presided over by Sir Francis Burdett, who, like Cobbett, was a strong voice for parliamentary reform. |
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The inauguration was presided over by Holroyd Smith, the inventor of the system and Alderman Harwood, the Mayor of Manchester. |
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Sir Christopher Wren presided over the genesis of the English Baroque manner, which differed from the continental models by clarity of design and subtle taste for classicism. |
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Three years ago, Micallef presided over a chain of Western restaurants, operating in a ritzy skyscraper in Fort Worth and the posh Rodeo Connection in Beverly Hills. |
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Lloyd George presided over the Government of Ireland Act 1920 which partitioned Ireland into Southern Ireland and Northern Ireland in May 1921 during the war of independence. |
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The man refuses to sack anyone in Government without long drawnout arguments and has presided over the sleaziest bunch of Tories in living memory. |
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Mortice, who had earlier presided over Ballet Rambert's switch from classic ballet to modern dance, was not an altogether happy fit for The Royal Ballet. |
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The High Court of Constabulary was a court in Scotland presided over by the Lord High Constable of Scotland and deputes appointed by the Lord High Constable. |
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This was a title held by one of the bailies of the burgh who presided over a Dean of Guild Court which was given the specific duty of building control. |
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Unimaginable amounts of suffering have been caused by tyrants who callously presided over the immiseration of their peoples or launched destructive wars of conquest. |
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Prominent educationist Sher Nawaz Khan was chief guest on the occasion while the ceremony was presided over by Aziz Khan Subadar of Chitral Scouts. |
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In the absence of the King after the Union of the Crowns in 1603, parliament was presided over by the Lord Chancellor or the Lord High Commissioner. |
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On very rare occasions the whole Inner House has presided over a case. |
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Cases in the Inner House are normally heard before a bench of 3 Senators, through more complex or importance cases are presided over by 5 Senators. |
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It was Philip IV who presided over the beginning of his House's end. |
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She had bicycled there, now negotiating the antivehicular posts with the utmost precision, and, wearing her semiofficial hat, presided on the Borough Bench. |
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The House would be presided over not by the Lord Chancellor, but by the Lord High Steward, an official especially appointed for the occasion of the trial. |
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He presided over the clinical trial in which 18-year-old Jesse Gelsinger died in 1999 after suffering a massive immune reaction to the virus used to deliver a target gene. |
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This approval was given on the recommendation of the Flag Officers Promotion Board presided over by the Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Noman Bashir. |
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Also constituted were Courts of circuit with appellate jurisdiction in criminal cases, which were usually presided over by the judges of the civil appellate courts. |
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Since 1964 the voting has been presided over by the EBU scrutineer, who is responsible for ensuring that all points are allocated correctly and in turn. |
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Sculpted by William Calder Marshall, it showed Jenner sitting in a chair in a relaxed pose, and was inaugurated at a ceremony presided over by Prince Albert. |
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Through the Council of State, a privy council presided over by the Monarch, the Prime Minister and the Cabinet meet at the Royal Palace and formally consult the Monarch. |
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Good-humored, easy, and careless, he presided over his whale-boat as if the most deadly encounter were but a dinner, and his crew all invited guests. |
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Both houses of the British Parliament are presided over by a speaker, the Speaker of the House for the Commons and the Lord Speaker in the House of Lords. |
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Master of ceremonies Beau Nash, who presided over the city's social life from 1705 until his death in 1761, drew up a code of behaviour for public entertainments. |
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The consuls could convene the Senate, and presided over its meetings. |
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The Council of State was reformed and presided over by the King and Queen. |
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Philip II felt it necessary to be involved in the detail, and he presided over specialised councils for state affairs, finance, war, and the Inquisition. |
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From 1990 to 2005, Manuel Fraga, former minister and ambassador in the Franco dictature, presided over the Galician autonomous government, the Xunta de Galicia. |
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The Qin Emperor presided over the brutal silencing of political opposition, including the event known as the burning of books and burying of scholars. |
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Presented with the incriminating evidence and the gravity of the accusations, the Wanli Emperor, in an attempt to spare Noble Consort Zheng, personally presided over the case. |
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The bishops then moved Lambeth for the First Session on 2 July, after Holy Communion at which Tait presided and Thomson of York preached, the bishops gathered in the library. |
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In Sri Lanka, periodic courts held around the island called Assize Courts presided over by a Commissioner of Assize to hear appeals and serious crimes of the locality. |
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The Knesset is presided over by a Speaker and a Deputy Speaker. |
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To ensure the discussion retains order they are presided over by a chair. |
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The last time she had visited, Sean's father, Tiny Tim, who was tight as a tick with his money, jovially presided over the place, one big yard filled with rusting cars. |
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