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Example sentences for "presided over"

  • Situated on North Branch of Saskatchewan River, 84 miles below Edmonton Mission, presided over by Rev.

  • This settlement is presided over by a mission of French Roman Catholic clergymen of the order of Oblates, headed by a bishop of the same order and nationality.

  • This court is presided over by a chief justice, with five puisne judges, and has appellate civil and criminal jurisdiction for the Dominion.

  • On his return from that island he presided over a Conservative cabinet for a few months, but soon made way for Canovas, whom he ever afterwards treated as the leader of the Conservative party.

  • The South Africa Act 1909 created a Supreme Court of South Africa, the supreme court of the Cape of Good Hope, which sits at Cape Town, becoming a provincial division of the new supreme court, presided over by a judge-president.

  • Even the Savoyards partially fell away from the court, and a convocation of clergy at Merton, presided over by Archbishop Boniface, drew up canons in the spirit of Grosseteste.

  • Thither the prisoners of Boroughbridge were sent for their trial, and there they were hastily condemned by a body of seven earls and numerous barons, presided over by the king himself.

  • Marriage questions are decided by the tribal council, which is presided over by a chairman (Chaudhri) selected at each meeting from among the most influential adult males present.

  • Each temple is named after a village, and is presided over by a Mahant elected from the celibate Manbhaos.

  • The assembly is presided over by a Mahant or priest and the chauka is prepared by his subordinate called the Diwan.

  • The Court of General Gaol Delivery is the Supreme Criminal Court and is presided over by the lieutenant-governor, who is assisted by the clerk of the rolls and the two deemsters.

  • There are also quarter sessions, presided over by a recorder.

  • The intricate claims arising from these seizures were settled in a separate court of confiscations, known as the juzgado, presided over by the juez de bienes or judge of confiscations and furnished with its notary and nuncio.

  • The assessors, it is true, assisted them, but a special tribunal evidently was a necessity and this was furnished by the erection of courts of confiscation, presided over by the jueces de los bienes.

  • It is an auto da fe, presided over by God.

  • It must be remembered that both gods and devils were supposed to be presided over by the greatest God and the greatest Devil.

  • It is an auto da fe, presided over by God and his angels.

  • To this the Congregation of the Holy Office, which is presided over by the pope himself, forms an exception.

  • Thus, for the seventh time in the history of the church had a general council been held in the East, composed of eastern bishops, presided over by the legates of the apostolic see.

  • A theological seminary at Amsterdam, presided over by Episcopius till his death, in A.

  • The council of the Alliance, presided over by Sir Culling Eardley, presented an address to King Frederick William IV.

  • The affairs are administered by a supreme council resident in Breslau, presided over by the distinguished jurist Huschke.

  • The former is and has been for several years presided over by the Hon.

  • Everything pointed toward the centralization of the control of every railroad and steamboat line in this State and the adjacent Territory in the hands of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, presided over by Mr. Villard.

  • Another meeting was held, presided over by Mr Adam Sweater--Rushton and Didlum also being present.

  • The Bundesrath is presided over by the Imperial Chancellor.

  • Each committee is presided over by a chairman.

  • He delegates his administrative powers to a Senate, which is presided over by a Governor-General.

  • At a general meeting of the Deputy-Lieutenants and magistrates, presided over by the Lord Lieutenant (the Marquis Townshend), it was resolved to adopt measures for the effectual defence of the county and the preservation of property.

  • A "fine Norfolk sheep" was roasted for the feast, presided over by Sir Martin ffolkes.

  • At a meeting held at the Guildhall, presided over by the Mayor of Norwich, resolutions were adopted for taking the best means of stopping the progress of the contagion of smallpox, and of extending vaccine inoculation.

  • A large meeting, presided over by Courty, a merchant of the third arrondissement, had been held in the Cirque.

  • There had been installed in this house, so sadly celebrated, a provostship, presided over by a captain of Chasseurs.

  • The sitting, presided over by Captain Bergeret, was stormy.

  • The federation of artists, presided over by Courbet, elected member of the Council on the 16th April, occupied itself with the re-opening and superintendence of the museums.

  • In Concepcion and Dilao (Paco) the popular Council Mahiganti, presided over by Rafael Gutierrez, and the sections Panday and Ilog with a delegation in Ermita.

  • In Trozo the popular Council Dapitan [10] presided over by Francisco Carreon, and the sections Silanganan and Alapaap, by Juan de la Cruz and R.

  • The church has no rector, but is presided over by P.

  • The third district, presided over by Judge Reid, whose residence is at Fairbanks, is five hundred miles wide by nine hundred miles long.

  • There is a large Greek-Russian church, not far from the noisy saloon which is presided over by the saloon-keeper who was once bad, but who has now yielded to the missionary's spell.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    answer whether; artificial selection; come what; constitutional right; different types; each pair; faced tumbler; foot pounds; here because; hurried away; long chalk; much length; petty officer; pictorial representation; presided over; shall write; tell the; trained nurses; triumphal procession; under orders; white swan; young lord