Any one who considered himself aggrieved might plead for himself, and there was some risk in giving the verdict against him because sooner or later he was pretty certain to become presidente or sotto-presidente and to take his revenge.
But the game was that he made a speech proposing so-and-so as a suitable person to be invited to drink, and the sotto-presidente made another speech giving his reasons for agreeing or differing.
At 1:30 we were all carried over in carriages to the house of the Presidente and thirty-five of us sat down to a very sumptuous banquet of about eighteen courses.
They were received with open arms by the Presidenteof the village and the Padre and were most sumptuously entertained.
The Presidenteof the town was greatly alarmed, as he was expecting any moment to be captured for serving under the U.
We were escorted up to the house of the Presidente and were immediately served with refreshments that were most lavish in quantity, color, shape and kind; too numerous in variety to taste, and too impossible of taste to partake.
Take the case of Major Glenn, who is about to be courtmartialed for giving the water cure to the presidente in one of the Provinces of Luzon, as the testimony goes to show.
This presidente had been appointed to office by our Government, had taken the oath of allegiance, and was there to represent us.
At midnight a very attractive supper was served, to which the presidente escorted us with great formality.
On New Year's morning the presidente and secretario of Misamis, accompanied by their respective families and a young Moro slave, the property of the secretario, came aboard the Burnside to return our call.
The next day we went to call on the presidente and his wife.
On the previous day the presidente had unearthed a queer little carriage out of a junk heap, and put this conveyance and a wise looking piebald pony at our disposal.
But it is primarily to Datto Mandi and the presidente that the people of Zamboanga should be grateful.
Verily, Datto Mandi and the presidente had been right, Americans were unlike the Spaniards, and Zamboanga had never experienced so peaceful a year in all her history.
On its arrival the presidente himself turned the crank, and with such vigour that I feared a stroke of apoplexy on his part.
To the Local Presidente of Pasig: "You are hereby informed that the Americans are going to your town and they will ask your opinion [of what the people desire.
Even to-day the presidente of a pueblo is as absolute boss of his town as Charles F.
The presidente chosen was a well-known member of the Katipúnan, and before the election was held announced his intention of killing any one who was chosen for the position for which he was a candidate.
We first asked the local authorities to have her sent to Manila, but the presidente and the police declined to act.
Persons arriving from a neighboring town or province in any pueblo of this province will immediately present themselves before the presidente of said pueblo with their passes.
The provincial council, composed of these four officials, with the presidente of the capital of the province, were to see to the execution in that province of the decrees of the central government and to advise and suggest.
That from this date no one will be allowed to absent himself from his pueblo without previously informing its head who will give him an authorization on which will be noted the approval of the presidente of the pueblo.
The tax collector killed, and a countryman servant of the local presidente wounded.
The Ilocano Tranquilino Pagarigan, local presidente at that time of Camiling, served as an admirable instrument for this purpose.
The local presidentewith his patrols arrested six of them.
His Excellency the Presidente will take you to see ze two gons,' the Secretary told me, and I think there was a twinkle in his eye.
El Presidente say shoot you if do not say where is Don Geraldio.
Then White impressed two carabaos from the presidente and started off in a drizzling rain.
A house had been engaged for her, the Presidente announced, by Don Francisco.
When they stopped that night at Talisay, the best house of the pueblo was placed at her disposal; the presidente hustled at her orders, the kitchen was in panic, the household terrorised.
You cannot start under such conditions," said the Presidente appealingly.
Presidente pathetically ended his message to the State Congress, "not a single person presented himself to subscribe to the loan.
A fervent appeal the Presidente made to prevent the spread of smallpox.
In his message thePresidente wisely and frankly disclosed the difficulty of administering justice under existing laws, when juries would absolve proved and confessed murderers wholesale.
There is only one boat on the Araguaya," said the Presidenteto me.
I thanked the Presidente for his exquisite kindness, and for the very generous and thoughtful hospitality he and his delightful family had offered me in Goyaz, and which left in my mind the only pleasant moments spent in that dull city.
At the last moment the Presidente came to my rescue.
The Presidente counted on the receipts from the exports as well as on economy in administration in order to pay the interest on this sum--a dream which soon became impossible to realize.
The Presidente told me that the Provincial Government had eventually bought the wrecks of the launches and the machine shops for £20--and as it cost too much to leave a man in charge everything had since been abandoned.
The truly good-hearted Presidente and his charming family were in a great state of mind.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "presidente" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
