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How to use preside over in a sentence

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The boatmen deny the charge that they preside over a closed shop, which the new licence will finally open up.
Once three graces, now three crones, the old women preside over their table and their kingdom of life.
The minister said he would not preside over the closure of any railway lines.
The doe-eyed actress will preside over the lamp lighting ceremony at 11.30 a.m. at the Metroplus Lifestyle Show on Thursday.
A lay chair would oversee the council, while a medical president would preside over the executive board.
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands will preside over their inauguration in The Hague this week.
It would be awkward for the embattled Speaker to preside over the affairs of the House during the course of the investigation.
He or she will preside over the government as chairperson of the cabinet and have the power to issue decrees.
The case will eventually be dealt with in the Crown Court, as the charges are too serious for magistrates to preside over.
This massive biography describes the rise to power of the last great English churchman to preside over the King's government.
In the Netherlands, registrars are the officials who preside over marriages.
The World Trade Organisation will preside over a conference of most of the world's countries in Cancun, Mexico, this month.
He had to preside over a layoff, which has never made any new boss popular in the history of new bossdom.
This is why I cannot preside over a case in which I have a personal interest or where I am somehow linked to one of the parties or lawyers.
It's bad enough that he's forced to preside over four days of the Queen's jubilee coverage, but then he's attacked by BBC viewers for dissing Her Majesty.
Pope Benedict will now preside over the Synod which will also bring to a close, this year devoted to the Eucharist.
The President of the Council shall preside over the Cooperation Council and present the position of the Community.
It is an honour for me to preside over the work of a body which gathers the best of diplomatic talents and disarmament experts.
In practice, this means that the Minister of Health will preside over the agency and will have management and direction of it.
I highly appreciate the excellent manner in which you preside over our discussions, and I assure you of my delegation's full cooperation.
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Examples from Classical Literature
When the conquerer did not preside over this court, an appeal could be made to him.
He forthwith asked his ministers who could make for him a Naraka and preside over the punishment of wicked people in it.
And it's yourself as Deputy-Governor will preside over that same court-martial.
The sanitary Commission I preside over is not in favour with the populace.
The Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah have been invited to preside over the convocation.
Because I have seen you preside over the correctional Court.
They preside over the most critical period of Israel's history.
So the Prior of Saint Botolph's hobbled back again into the refectory, to preside over the stockfish and ale, which was just serving out for the friars' breakfast.
It sometimes occurred to him that the person who most signally failed to realize this fact was the lady who did him the honor to preside over his household.
The danger has always been that some in Whitehall and Westminster who would defend the Union may unwittingly and uncomprehendingly preside over its dissolution.
Clerks preside over marriages as justices of the peace commissioned by the Governor's Council, and are not required to publicly disclose earnings from performing marriages.
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