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Mole-rats are the only known mammals to live in large colonies presided over by a queen.
Alexander felt that the dismemberment of Poland, over which his grandmother Catherine had presided, had been a shameful act.
Two graduation ceremonies will be held in the University Great Hall and will be presided over by the Chancellor of the University.
I have cooked and presided over a good many family meals myself since those days.
Our fathers presided over the ruthless deracination of political reportage in this country, and we intend to make amends during this campaign.
He has presided over the transition of the team from one glorious generation to the next in exemplary fashion.
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.
The Labour government has presided over a widening of the gap between rich and poor.
They were found to have presided over miscarriages of justice that led to wrongful imprisonments.
That is why they conducted inspections of all the villages they presided over.
Almost half were in Texas and presided over by Bush, as governor, before he was elected to the White House.
McManus and four other top administrators presided from chairs usually reserved for council members.
Three judges in black robes presided from a bench under the red-and-gold emblem of the People's Republic of China.
He has presided over a marked increase in public cynicism about politics without suffering significant damage to his own electoral prospects.
True, he presided over the Cauvery River Authority and asked Karnataka to release 9,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu every day.
No Caribbean leader since the founding fathers has presided over Caricom with the sagacity of Percival Patterson.
Who, with an iron-like grip, presided over the single most successful era in Australian test cricket history?
Rock music is a harsh world, presided over by a fickle, unforgiving public.
His tenure at the Ministry of the Navy was a complete failure and he presided over the cultural pillage of Italy and Egypt.
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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Examples from Classical Literature
They said, the gentleman who presided, was a Sir Borlase Warren, the admiral on the station.
A forger, embezzler and thief presided over Mississippis Department of Education.
The royal confessor, the bishop of Cuena, arrayed in his pontificals, presided over the ceremonies.
He lost here, and so found himself at the table presided over by the three-card monte men.
It was presided over by the veteran author and publisher, Henry Holt, who nominated Mr. Carnegie as toastmaster.
These tohunga presided over all those ceremonies and customs which had something approaching to a religious character.
As yet, power rather than beauty presided, unless in the etchings of Vandyck.
She presided over the assemblies of the people and the laws of hospitality.
Breaches of caste rules and customs are enquired into by a panchayat presided over by a headman called Kattemaniavaru.
Dechamps and neut, men of great merit and able to control the most animated debate, presided in this section.
It was something remarkably like her astral body which presided at the club.
It has been said that he gave a new life to the obstetric art, and presided at the birth of gyncology.
Mr. Henry Birkbeck presided, and it was asserted that the society was non-political.
That gentleman became the director of several lines, and vice-chairman of one over which Mr. Vigo himself presided.
It was divided into wards, each governed by an alderman who presided over the wardmote, and represented his ward at the folkmote.
Wellborn, who presided, counted a quorum and declared the resolutions adopted.
The King presided, sitting under a baldachin with his consort, Queen Johanna, at his right and his sons at his left.
Miss Campion presided at the harmonium that evening in place of Father Letheby.
There he left the affair, nor ever spoke again of Malpas and the siren who presided there.
The roadhouse is presided over by a very able body of the clan of Ferguson.
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