preside over something

Examples of presided

presided

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Commentators also observed a lack of uniformity in the attitudes and in the decisions of the judges who presided over the city's criminal courts.
A political organization was a churning mix of ambition and resentment and inertia over which leaders presided only by constant effort.
Both areas had a history of economic decline presided over by inept and corrupt government.
These courts are presided over by a three-judge panel.
This involved the appointment of judges who personally presided over the annual distribution of plots and recorded the names of the beneficiaries.
His contention that the nation with the strongest labour force ' presided ' over world civilisation clearly implied a struggle with winners and losers.
It might be presided over by a king, a judge, or a protector.
These conscripts were to be chosen by public lotteries presided over by a municipal recruitment committee, headed by each municipal president.
The local government reaction has been to bemoan their lack of resources and powers, having presided over racialised processes in education and housing for decades.
For one, the new monarch's private faith was, almost certainly, not that of the church over which he presided as head.
But because they presided over single-party systems, they too were sheltered from electoral accountability.
Marjolin had presided over a committee on monetary union during the 1970s and this had reinforced his scepticism.
Atchley presided over numerous international meetings with his renowned grace and expertise.
Weisheng suggests a harmony of interests between public space and private behaviour, presided over by an effective and enlightened government.
Groups or councils of women presided over excision itself.
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