How to Use preside over in a Sentence

preside over

phrasal verb
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  • The chair acts as the official voice for the board and presides over its meetings.
    — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Shafer, then the state party chair, presided over the meeting.
    — Adriana Usero, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Trump sought to have the charges against him dismissed, but the judge presiding over the case declined to do so on Thursday.
    — Max Greenwood, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Waukesha County Judge Michael Bohren presided over the case.
    — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The Trial: Trump vowed to appeal the decision by the judge presiding over the case to schedule the start of his trial on March 4.
    — Charlie Savage, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • His case is being presided over by the same judge from Vallow's trial, Judge Steve Boyce.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 30 May 2024
  • But the Atlanta judge presiding over the case, Ural Glanville, ruled against a ban on lyrics, according to Billboard.
    — Justin Curto, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Some of these still exist, presiding over the Pont d’Iéna tunnel or blending into the stone of the fountain at Châtelet.
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Trump’s vice president, Mike Pence, who presided over the joint session of Congress that day, hid from the mob that Trump for hours refused to call off.
    — Dan Mangan, CNBC, 19 July 2024
  • To put salt in the wound, our very own Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin agreed to not only support and attend the session but also preside over it.
    — Mansoor Shams, Baltimore Sun, 23 July 2024
  • But it’s already gone beyond just presiding over the election of a new Speaker.
    — Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Coixet presided over the Venice Horizons jury last year.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
  • And the judge presiding over the enormous group of AFFF lawsuits has hundreds of other cases to get through that were not brought by water providers.
    — Zoya Teirstein / Grist, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
  • As lieutenant governor, Kehoe presided over the Missouri Senate but didn’t have a vote on the 2021 plan.
    — Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 19 July 2024
  • Chief among them was director Jun Fukuda, who would preside over the Showa era’s more light-hearted entries.
    — Katie Rife, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2024
  • There was even discussion of Blinken flying out, most likely to Doha, Qatar, to preside over the signing of an accord.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Judge Jennifer Callaghan, who has overseen the court battle within the family over the previous four years, will preside over the case.
    — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
  • Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom's day-to-day ruler and the driving force behind the reforms, has also presided over a heavy crackdown on dissent.
    — Saudi Arabia, Fox News, 7 July 2023
  • The anger also comes from the fact that Mr. Netanyahu had presided over the widening of deep rifts in Israeli society and a toxic public discourse.
    — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Tutu talked about his role as the first black African archbishop of Cape Town and presided over a Sunday service accompanied by the choir.
    — Georgina Cruz, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The judge presiding over the matter has not yet scheduled a follow-up hearing to discuss more arguments from both sides in the matter.
    — Jared Eggleston, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Last summer, the San Diego Superior Court trial judge presiding over the civil case said the players could use the videos in their defense.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Ignoring Brown’s advice about the bad optics of partying amidst the strike, Zaslav and Carter presided over the affair in matching white suits.
    — Lachlan Cartwright, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 June 2024
  • Ahead of Pat Sajak’s final spin presiding over the long-running game show, Vanna White — his co-host of 41 years — bid an emotional farewell.
    — Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 7 June 2024
  • These are among the types of cases circuit judges preside over, toiling in one of the toughest, most demanding jobs state government has to offer.
    — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, Orlando Sentinel, 15 July 2024
  • After spending the day in custody, Brown was released on his own recognizance by the judge who presided over his brief hearing.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Of course, having a long-in-the-tooth prime minster, plagued by constant scandal, who has also presided over the near 0 percent GDP per capita growth in Canada over the past decade, helps this trend as well.
    — Jon Hartley, National Review, 26 Oct. 2023
  • As previously announced, Baz Luhrmann will preside over the main jury.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Jackson County court judges recused themselves from presiding over the case.
    — Andrea Klick, Kansas City Star, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Biden’s Jobs Pitch: Biden is presiding over a job-creation boom that would have gotten almost any of his predecessors re-elected in the postwar era.
    — Michael C. Bender, New York Times, 9 June 2024

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