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How to use presides in a sentence

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He presides over an administration that is riven with ethnic, religious and regional rivalries.
She is delivered to her father, a politician who presides over the policing of his town.
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.
The Supreme Court chief justice only presides over the trial, he cannot vote when the case is up for resolution.
In fact, a financial oligarchy presides over America, which guarantees its maintenance of political power through the two-party stranglehold.
Here are the latest thoughts from Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner Bob Hastings, who presides over the coppers manning the checkpoints.
Paul O'Grady is Ray, bingo caller and manager, who presides over a motley staff.
Clearly she presides over this field or crop, as she walks through it like a beneficent goddess.
A skull rests on the threshold as a reminder of the wages of sin, and, above, an unkindness of ravens presides.
The Jockey Club is the august racing body that presides over equine nomenclature.
Laura Blackburne, a judge who presides over a drug court in New York City, helped a suspect elude arrest in her courtroom.
Frances Moran presides here, over a small round table in a room covered with charts, pictures and books.
He presides over one of the weirdest collection of performers ever assembled since the days of the Victorian freak show.
In one square, a large group of men presides over a giant chess set in the sun-streaked shade of a clump of trees.
What does Rupert Lowe, the club chairman who presides over this delicate situation, make of it all?
He remains the idol of the Russian armed forces today, and his portrait presides over most commanders' offices.
When the president is impeached, the Chief Justice of the United States presides over the trial in the Senate.
The chief justice presides at the conference and allocates opinion writing, but he has no casting vote and no power to instruct colleagues.
Love presides over the fanciness at the wedding, doesn't it, dear?
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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Examples from Classical Literature
The wisest and most dignified of all the Muses is Polyhymnia, who presides over sacred music.
Erato, who presides over the poems of love, generally accompanies the youngest and gayest of the Muses, Terpsichore.
Another daughter of the Paphian divinity presides at the shrine of rouge et noir.
He presides over the worship of the people, and is the uniter of them with the unseen Holy.
He presides over the county court which is held at the county seat.
The little maid who presides should be gowned to represent a butterfly.
At the trial, first recorded in 1282, the monarch is represented by the Queen's Remembrancer, who presides over matters to do with the Exchequer.
The hydrographer to the admiralty presides over the hydrographical office.
A matronly woman welcomes you, and presides with grace and dignity.
The steward also usually presides at the copyhold courts of the manor.
It is well for man that omniscience presides at the day of judgment.
The pointsman who presides over this junction is the librarian.
Described as a thoroughly modern, apolitical prince, Sheik Mohammed presides over all as part modern CEO, part traditional Arab ruler, part merchant prince and part showman.
In all the others a single judge presides, and proceeds in general either according to the course of the canon or civil law, without the aid of a jury.
As many in the cast do, Douglas takes on more than one role, most notably that of Judge Frank, who presides over this purgatorial melee with querulous humor.
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