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Pai ultimately presided over some of the agency’s most controversial decisions, including its highly contested effort three years ago to roll back net neutrality rules that had required Internet providers to treat all Web traffic equally.
FCC CHAIRMAN AJIT PAI TO LEAVE AGENCY NEXT YEARTONY ROMMNOVEMBER 30, 2020WASHINGTON POST
Rubio is already suiting up for the politics of destruction, already certain that this new team will preside over America’s decline.
MARCO RUBIO IS ALREADY SUITING UP FOR THE POLITICS OF DESTRUCTIONFRED HIATTNOVEMBER 29, 2020WASHINGTON POST
They preside over felony criminal trials and impose sentences.
FOUR OUTSIDE CHALLENGERS SECURE RARE WINS IN MARYLAND JUDICIAL RACESDAN MORSENOVEMBER 22, 2020WASHINGTON POST
The company blamed the episode on the vice president who had presided over all reimbursement submissions, who was fired.
INVESTORS EXTRACTED $400 MILLION FROM A HOSPITAL CHAIN THAT SOMETIMES COULDN’T PAY FOR MEDICAL SUPPLIES OR GAS FOR AMBULANCESBY PETER ELKIND WITH DORIS BURKESEPTEMBER 30, 2020PROPUBLICA
Each county elects a presiding officer, known as a county judge, and four commissioners.
THE COVID-19 CHARMER: HOW A SELF-DESCRIBED FELON CONVINCED ELECTED OFFICIALS TO TRY TO HELP HIM PROFIT FROM THE PANDEMICBY VIANNA DAVILA, JEREMY SCHWARTZ AND LEXI CHURCHILLSEPTEMBER 25, 2020PROPUBLICA
Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt, a Conservative rabbi of Congregation Adas Israel in Washington and a friend of Ginsburg’s whose husband once served as the justice’s law clerk, presided alongside Chief Justice John Roberts.
IN DEATH, AS IN LIFE, RUTH BADER GINSBURG BALANCED BEING AMERICAN AND JEWISHLGBTQ-EDITORSEPTEMBER 25, 2020NO STRAIGHT NEWS
He had been presiding over a proceeding that had something to do with the Mormons, in which he favored them.
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I defended myself as best I could, but was told by the presiding magistrate that I was nothing but an “impudent scoundrel.”
ADVENTURES AND RECOLLECTIONSBILL O'TH' HOYLUS END
Pageants sweep by, and nobles are presiding in halls of state.
He was the presiding deity of plantations and forests, and specially protected the boundaries of fields.
MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT GREECE AND ROMEE.M. BERENS
WORDS RELATED TO PRESIDING
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- ministerial
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- organizational
- policy-making
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- regulative
- regulatory
- ruling
- supervising
- supervisory
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- chief
- commanding
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- despotic
- domineering
- effective
- first
- foremost
- governing
- imperative
- imperious
- leading
- main
- obtaining
- overbalancing
- overbearing
- overweighing
- paramount
- powerful
- predominant
- predominate
- preeminent
- preponderant
- presiding
- prevailing
- prevalent
- principal
- regnant
- reigning
- ruling
- sovereign
- supreme
- surpassing
- transcendent
- authoritative
- bureaucratic
- central
- commanding
- controlling
- deciding
- decisive
- departmental
- directing
- directive
- directorial
- executive
- governing
- governmental
- in charge
- in control
- jurisdictional
- legislative
- managerial
- ministerial
- official
- organizational
- policy-making
- presiding
- regulative
- regulatory
- ruling
- supervising
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.