presiding
Speech parts
1. presiding - Adjective
2. presiding - Verb
Meaning
of Preside
a. & n. from Preside.
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[The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place.
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.
Yes, [to] the Communist party! [the presiding judge asked Grosz: 'Do you belong to a political party?'].
I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.
Mr. Speaker, we are here now in chapter 11. Members of Congress are official trustees presiding over the greatest reorganization of any bankrupt entity in world history, the U. S. government.
[Ike] was presiding over a situation in which history was turning into demography, in which judgment-and Ike possessed judgment with a capital J-was being drained out of every powerful situation, and marketing considerations were being pumped in.