A slaveholder presides over the United States forty-eight years out of sixty!
This is a Christian thought: The same God who formed the world for man's abode, presides also in the movements of mankind, and directs their voluntary march.
They were transported to Alexandria and afterwards carried to London and New York, so the genius of playing cards still presides at the two great world centres, where cards are a favourite amusement.
It represents the unforeseen, the unexpected, uncertainty or uncontrollable fate, and the destiny that presides over every walk in life.
Most of these show the same characteristics of clustered woodlands in a sheltered fold of the hills, where a grey little flinty church with stunted spirelet presides over a few large farms and a group of little cottages.
He often travels in company with thirty or forty males and females, abram men, and others, over whom he presides arbitrarily.
Pradyumna or Kamadeva presides over Ketumala in order to please Lakshmi Samvatsara (one year), the daughters of Samvatsara viz: the nights and Sons of Samvatsara viz: the days.
Dhruva, son of Uttanapada, presides over the Polar Star.
He was a votary of Sankarshana, who presides over Ahankara or Egoism.
The man whopresides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school.
Defn: An officer who presides over the academic senate of a German university.
In some States of the United States, an officer who presides over the probate of wills and testaments and yield the settlement of estates.
Defn: A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.
The officer who presides over an assembly to preserve order, propose questions, regulate the proceedings, and declare the votes.
Defn: One of the bishops of the Episcopal Church of Scotland, who presides at the meetings of the bishops, and has certain privileges but no metropolitan authority.
The chief ecclesiastic in a national church; one who presides over other bishops in a province; an archbishop.
They believe that a spirit presides over the camphor trees, and that without propitiating him they could not obtain the precious gum; the shrill cry of a species of cicada, heard at night, is supposed to be the voice of the spirit.
As next of kin to the deceased he presides over the funeral rites.
The king of Susa, a region to the south of Abyssinia, presides daily at the feast in the long banqueting-hall, but is hidden from the gaze of his subjects by a curtain.
Of other gods, Freyr presides over rain and sunshine and all the fruits of the earth.
Minos presides over them as judge and examines the deeds of each.
In Ladakh the peasants offer the first two or three handfuls of the wheat-crop to the spirit who presides over agriculture.
It was the universal Soul that gave form to the heavens, and which presides over their regular revolutions; and she effects all that without mingling with the being to whom she communicates form, movement and life.
The power which is active in us is inferior to the one that presides over our life, and it is the one which essentially constitutes us.
It thereby moves the inferior power, embracing it in a circle; and it presides over the universe as it returns (from the earth) to the celestial spheres.
Plato truly said that "we choose our guardian"; for, by the kind of life that we prefer, we choose the guardian that presides over our life.
No: our guardian is the power immediately superior to the one that we exercise, for it presidesover our life without itself being active.
A magistrate convokes the people and presides over the body.
Later yet, elected consul, he commands an army and presides over the assemblies.
Socrates there maintains his title of sage, but it is surely not wisdom which presides at the feast.
The Beautiful Beauty is that reason itself which presidesat the creation of things.
Beauty is the reason which presides at the creation of things; it is the invisible power which draws us and subjugates us in them.
What is the intelligent and secret power which presides over the astonishing regularity of movements so complicated--a regularity in which each one has a faith so undoubting, though comfort and life are at stake.
Blessed Peter," says Chrysologus, "who lives and presides in his own See, supplies truth of faith to those who seek it.
Poor Fanny would not have been able to resist his rudeness a short time, but the deity who presides over chaste love sent her Joseph to her assistance.
No, a Roman praetor presidesat the meeting; summoned by his command they assemble; they behold him, attended by his lictors seated on a lofty throne, issuing his haughty edicts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "presides" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
