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Meaning preside meaning

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preside Verb

— Preside means to sit as an authority over, to control or to rule. John Smith will preside over the meeting. Jane Doe refused to preside over the dance committee meeting.

preside

— verb act as president preside over companies and corporations

Synonyms preside synonyms

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preside English » English

chair lead direct manage moderate control supervise conduct chairman be in the chair uphold perform officiate management hold head guide dominate charge chairperson

Conjugation preside conjugation

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preside · verb

Examples preside examples

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Simple sentences

Tom offered to preside at the meeting.

Movie subtitles

All it needs is a lovely woman to preside there.
To preside in wisdom while the storm rages without.
Gentlemen, I wish to introduce the convoy commander, who will preside at this conference.
His job, as vice president of the country. is to preside over the Senate, which makes him its president.
I understand that Governor Humphrey is gonna preside at that meeting.
As deputy commander, I will preside.
As sheriff of this county, I've been asked to preside over the sale by auction of all property belonging to Mrs. Jill McBain, here present.
There's to be a trial. I am to preside.
I gotta preside over the board meetings.
Do you expect me to preside over such a farce?
Then you must preside over our Komsomol meeting.
As sheriff of this county, I've been asked to preside over the sale by auction of all property belonging to Mrs Jill McBain, here present.
However, Mr Chairman, unfortunately I have to leave these proceedings in order to preside over a very important meeting of my own committee.
But you must realize, that even we who preside this town, encounter so many problems.
You will preside over the laying of the cornerstone.
I've been asked to preside over the sale by auction of all property belonging to Mrs Jill McBain, here present.
I'll preside over the session of the Proletarian Writers,.unless a roof tile falls on my head.
Bernard, this government is here to govern. Not merely preside like ourpredecessors did.
You see, the day she dies, a new captain of the guard will preside at your execution.
And once I had to preside at the trial of a man whose only crime was to have translated a Greek book that conflicted with the holy scriptures.
They've asked us to send a scholar of great weight and substance to preside over the ceremony and stay on for two months for lectures and seminars.
Ignatz refused to preside over trials against the Communists.
Today, our illustrious Emir will preside over His merciful court.
Our lord Emir will preside over his court today.
Well, as Chairman of the Board, I preside over the Board.
How often do you preside over the Board?
I, Kakuzo Nakata, with all my heart, feel the utmost happiness to know that I will preside as your principal until my retirement.
However, Mr Chairman, unfortunately I have to leave these proceedings, in order to preside over a very important meeting of my own committee.
The house, which seemed to have slept during the past weeks, awoke to a flurry of activity and Brideshead, Sebastian's elder brother, came down to preside.
In all my years on the bench, I've never been called upon to preside over such a case as this.
I won't preside over the demise of Ferengi civilisation.

News and current affairs

In fact, despite her promotion, the judge continued to preside over another case in the same building.
How could he manage to preside over such a spectacular stock-market boom?
And after all, you can't have a final, utopian society without having a final, scientific theory of human behavior, together with some mad scientists or philosophes to preside over the whole thing.
Old leaders can preside successfully over smoothly running countries that need no radical re-examination of their policies and purposes.
He is also weighing whether to change the current Constitutional Court into a Supreme Court to which citizens could appeal under some conditions, and whether to waive the president's authority to preside over the High Council of the Judiciary.
For this reason, the US came to preside over the alliance.
Indeed, he has become the first elected Thai leader to finish a four-year term, be re-elected, and preside over a one-party government.
He will preside over a deeply polarized country, where conservative forces find themselves outside the presidential palace for the first time ever.
A European finance ministry should be created, and its head should preside over the Eurogroup (which convenes the finance ministers of eurozone member states).
Indeed, it may be that the framework for a state that can preside over a true democracy has yet to be created.
Merkel may have been softened by having to preside over a grand coalition, but her original stance was more of the Reagan-Thatcher variety.
How could he manage to preside over such a spectacular stock-market boom? Are Brazilians too exuberant?
In August 2011, India will preside over the Council by alphabetical rotation, and may find itself playing a key role in the election (most likely the re-election) of the UN Secretary-General, which must take place before the end of the year.
ROME - A real struggle over who will preside over the European Commission has begun.
As a consequence, German Chancellors usually preside over coalition governments, and their effective authority is based on the loyalty of the party forces they command within such political alliances.

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