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Presidencies are supposed to act as neutral and honest brokers of the process, cajoling and sometimes dragging countries along and making key procedural decisions.

From Salon • Dec. 15, 2023

The two leaders will also “discuss their priorities for their respective Presidencies of the G-7 and G-20,” the Indian Ministry of External Affairs said in a press statement.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 19, 2023

Presidencies last longer than a TV season and you have to be able to build an audience and sustain it.

From Salon • Oct. 26, 2015

After the triumph of the Second World War, policymakers were emboldened to roll back Communism, but the miasma of Vietnam instilled a wariness of major overseas military entanglements that spanned the Carter and Reagan Presidencies.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 26, 2015

From 1866 to 1869, 140,000 persons died in the Presidencies of Bombay and Calcutta, and several years later, from 1873 to 1876, 700,000 died from this disease.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)