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Example sentences for: presides

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As Kate Mundy, the stick-in-the-mud schoolteacher who presides over four younger, unmarried sisters in 1936 Donegal, Ireland, she holds her facial muscles tense and signals with her eyes her exhaustion from keeping them so fiercely in place.
The lieutenant governor presides over the Senate, appoints the Senate's committees and committee chairs, controls the flow of bills to the floor, and co-chairs the powerful Legislative Budget Board.
To a Spanish speaker, apparently, the head of a committee presides, and that is it.
He presides over what Belgians regard as "the ideal family ...
Laurie Hiett's husband presides over all U.S. military operations in Colombia.