preside
Example Sentences
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Afterwards, Gandhi presided over waves of civil disobedience protests, encouraging supporters of the Indian National Congress to manufacture contraband salt, boycott foreign goods, and face down phalanxes of lathi-wielding policemen.
From BBC
The writer lived and worked in her childhood home in Jackson, Miss.—tending to her camellias, doting on her nieces and quietly presiding for many years as the matriarch of Southern letters.
The presiding judge said on Thursday that "most refused to appear", with the defendants' lawyers declining they be heard by videoconference and calling for them to appear in court instead.
From Barron's
The president is tasked with presiding over the agency's general assembly, but it is the secretary general who determines day-to-day operations in Lyon, Interpol's headquarters since 1989.
From Barron's
Barker eventually succeeded Meyer as principal auctioneer and has presided over milestone sales for the art world, as well as some of its most viral cultural moments.
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