In 1607, the House of Commons developed a committee system to avoid being presided over by the royally designated speaker.
Instead a cabinet not identified with any particular party was chosen by the Queen, who presided over their meetings, which were held every Sunday.
He had also presided two evenings previously at a meeting of the Polytechnic Institution at Birmingham.
We gave him a splendid dinner last Saturday at Richmond, whereat I presidedwith my accustomed grace.
At the repasts of the Pilgrims he usually presided at one of the tables, as we found him doing on the occasion when the cook propounded his problem of the two pies.
I don't remember exactly what I did say to this Clyde girl, but I thought it would be pleasanter for you, pleasanter for us all, not to have her always around; it seems she has presided at the table when Dr.
Prytanes--Magistrates who presided over the Senate.
Urania was the Heavenly Venus, who presided over the pure sentiment of love, in distinction from Aphrodite, who presided over the sensual passion.
The firstpresided over musical and literary competition; the last over athletic games.
To the usual danger of winds and storms was added the fear of encountering hostile fleets; and every power that presided over the destinies of sailors was invoked by the anxious mariners.
COMUS, the Roman deity who presided over festive revelries; the title of a poem by Milton, "the most exquisite of English or any masks.
London, for the trial of offences committed within a certain radius round the city, and practically presided over by the Recorder and the Common Serjeant of London, though theoretically by the Lord Mayor, Lord Chancellor, and others.
Machiavelli presided at the shooting of D'Engheim.
It seems often as if an almost unaccountable capricepresided over the fortunes of words, and determined which should live and which die.
Yet how true a moral instinct has presided over the changed signification of the word.
Indeed, when the soul abandons the solid body over which she presided she remains united to the spirit which she has received from the celestial spheres.
Over all these atrocities the furious and implacable spirit of Lord Clare presided in Council, and the equally furious and implacable Luttrel, Lord Carhampton, as Commander-in-Chief.
The whole of Ulster was then surveyed in a cursory manner by a staff over which presided Sir William Parsons as Surveyor-General.
It was the very reign and carnival of corruption, over which presided the invulnerable Chancellor--a true "King of Misrule.
The names of religious houses which are known to have existed before the Norman Conquest count by hundreds; the names of men and women who presided over such houses during the centuries preceding that event count by thousands.
He is remembered as having prosecuted O'Connell and presided at the trial of Smith O'Brien.
It survived longest in Ireland, where in 1152 a synod, presided over by the papal legate, decreed that, after the death of the existing holders of the office, no more should be consecrated.
He presided over the constitutional convention of Tennessee in 1796, and, on the state being admitted to the Union, became one of its first representatives in the United States Senate.
The bishops assumed in many places a princely authority, particularly those who had the greatest number of churches under their inspection, and who presided over the most opulent assemblies.
The post roads were then divided into sections or, as they were commonly called, stages; and these stages were presided over by a corresponding number of postmasters, whose duty it was to carry the mails each over his own stage.
The existence of two separate establishments, presided over by different heads, who had not always the same objects in view, and were influenced by different considerations, was not unattended with inconvenience.
And perhaps this may be a convenient place to say a few words about those who had presided over the Post Office during the first five or six years of Allen's connection with it.
Eleanor's empty place, set with the liqueur glass she always drank her thimbleful of champagne in, and the throne chair from the drawing-room in which she presided over the feasts given in her honor, was almost too much for them.
He pictured to himself the joys of a cosy little home--such as his gold would buy--presided over by a loving wife.
He told of the grotto, its music, its perfumes, its exquisite scenes and round of delights presided over by Venus herself.
Later, Mr. Reid presided at our Parliament House meeting, and afterwards entertained us at afternoon tea.
Theodore Bruce's connection with the reform dates from that year, when he presided at a meeting in the Adelaide Town Hall during the temporary absence of the Mayor.
He received us with open arms in his yourt, and commended us to the good offices of the lady who presided over the cauldron.
The yamun, or Government office, is at the far end of Maimachin, and is presided over by a Mongol.
He was a knight of all the King's Orders, andpresided at the assembly of the nobles of Rouen.
He presided on his seat--a high perch--in a very high hat and with great dignity.
His jet black face was relieved by a head of grey hair with a small round bald centre piece; and the expression of his face was calm and serene, as he presided over the pantry, the table and the tea-waiters.
This gentleman was a widower, and no lady presided over his house.
His daughters--a band of lovely young girls--presided over his house, dispensing its hospitality with grace and dignity.
The elderly, good-hearted spinster who presided instantly deposited in front of me a huge pot of paste, an empty book, and some old illustrated papers.
Such was the idea that inspired Demosthenes in his conception of the descent, and presided over its execution.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "presided" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
