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How to use the word Presided in a Sentence?

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President Biden's absence from the border on this trip shows us he is committed to failure, to open borders and to a post-Westphalian order that leads to a weakened United States, every nation has the right to protect its borders, and the United States is no different, yet President Biden has presided over a catastrophic collapse of border security unparalleled in modern times.

Gene Hamilton

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Tina Kotek spent years as Kate Brown's co-pilot, leading a one-party government that presided over massive homelessness, rising crime, failing schools, and a growing affordability crisis, without Kate Brown, Tina Kotek would have almost nothing to run on, since there was absolutely no daylight between the two on any issue of consequence. It's only right that Oregonians know Tina Kotek is Kate Brown's chosen candidate as they cast their ballots in this crucial election.

John Burke

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The president pro tempore has historically presided over Senate impeachment trials of non-presidents, when presiding over an impeachment trial, the president pro tempore takes an additional special oath to do impartial justice according to the Constitution and the laws. It is an oath that I take extraordinarily seriously.

Patrick Leahy

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The president pro tempore has historically presided over Senate impeachment trials of non-presidents.When presiding over an impeachment trial, the president pro tempore takes an additional special oath to do impartial justice according to the Constitution and the laws, it is an oath that I take extraordinarily seriously.

Patrick Leahy

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Ilhan Omar kind of presided over the situation, Ilhan Omar relished it, Ilhan Omar took it in.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The Angel that presided o'er my birth said, Little creature form'd of Joy & Mirth, Go love without the help of any Thing on Earth.

Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

added by anonymous
6 years ago

Mr. Logan in 2004 presided over one of the great meltdowns of U.S. elections during his previous tenure as elections chief of King County, Washington, which includes Seattle.

John Fund

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

He presided over a sharply divided court.

Chief Justice John Roberts

Found on CNN
8 years ago

People should perhaps reassess the line which has been put about that he was leading the movement towards peace, he is the one who has presided over the movement during a period of escalation of the violence. Actions speak louder than words.

Michael Semple

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Some of the outrageous events surrounding this sloppy process certainly do not typify the level of quality that Texans expect from our judicial system, ken Paxton, like all Americans, deserves to have his say in a court of law, rather than be judged in a court of public opinion that is presided over by liberal interest groups.

Aaron Whitehead

Found on CNN
8 years ago

His international reputation isn't that high ... so he has got quite a lot of bouncing back to try to do, he wants to personally restore his image as a world leader of some importance, not (be seen as) the coalition prime minister who presided over a retreat on all fronts.

Michael Clarke

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He has presided over a country that has inched forward, either on its own or with his leadership.

Karen Elliot

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivable encounters; it is surrounded by an atmosphere of the last canniness, presided over by a constraint for which I have no precise name; they simply cannot pass each other, their mutual embarrassment is frightful to behold.

Thomas Mann

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

Alexander Meigs Haig

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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