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Example sentences for: presided

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Schröder has presided over a thoroughly muddled and quarrelsome coalition since he defeated Helmut Kohl in last year's general election," it said in an editorial.
Although Kevorkian claims to have presided over 120-plus mercy suicides, in this most recent case, he directly caused death.
A bon vivant who held extravagant parties, Vaudreuil and his elegant wife presided over a sort of “Golden Age” of social grace, when the colonial elite were invited to plays, musicales, and balls.
She relies heavily--very heavily--on adverbs, which serve to pepper her noncommittal reviews with small emphatic bursts and to jack up her celebrations (from a 565-word review of Velvet Goldmine : "dazzlingly surreal," "brilliantly reimagines," "spectacularly reborn," "dramatically presided," "stunningly pretty," "fabulously charismatic," "hilariously decadent," "typically wicked").
Many are presided over by recent graduates of the Fashion Institute of Technology and the Parsons and Rhode Island schools of design who are going into business for the first time.