preside over

Never, says the awestruck official presiding over the meeting, has such a world-famous financial figure come to Guiyang.

Kim Jong-il was one of the world's most reclusive and enigmatic leaders, presiding over a secretive and internationally isolated country.

But Mr Karzai does not want to be presiding over a half-formed government when he meets foreign leaders in London on January 28th.

The old gentleman was as deliberate in his movements, and wore as subtle a smile, as though he were presiding over a diplomatic congress.

"You're not presiding over anything, " Ms. Snider, 47, said that she had quickly realized. "You're back in the trenches. "

Goldman Sachs predicts that the next prime minister will spend his first year in office presiding over a shrinking economy.

The midterms were a referendum on an administration presiding over anaemic economic recovery and stubbornly high unemployment.

Ms Jung had a glossy start at Avon, presiding over six consecutive years of double-digit growth.

Responsible for presiding over the team meeting, checking the execution of plans, and making discussion and examination of each execution.

The judge presiding over the case will likely grant the injunction, and worse, grant the motion to have LimeWire's assets frozen. Ouch.

Mr Bush, a lame-duck president, would be a lame-duck president presiding over a lame-duck occupation.

Ted was presiding over a Senate debate about libraries when someone rushed in and shouted: "Senator, your brother has been shot! "

The person presiding over a hearing may not have exparte contact with the parties, interested parties or other participants in the hearing.

On a different level, the cellular chemistry presiding over the constitution of proteins also operates by double articulation.

Responsible for the establishment and effective running of the quality system, and presiding over management inspection meetings.

They were the aristocrats of technical knowledge, presiding over a centuries-old regime.

Chiang Kai - shek's Taiwan was in effect a one - party dictatorship presiding over a capitalist economy, pursuing hell-for-leather growth.

At the time of the 2001 war in Afghanistan, the Taliban were blamed for presiding over widespread poppy cultivation.

The Constitution grants the VP no executive powers; his sole powers are legislative, presiding over the Senate and breaking tie votes.

Ramdev already is a well-known public figure in India, presiding over a lucrative empire of yoga-related media and food items.

the chairman shall be responsible for convening and presiding over regular, interim and emergency board meetings.

And for Father Christmases presiding over the Russian Orthodox holidays, January 6 is the holiest of days, he told AFP.

Now the chief executive of both Nissan and Renault is presiding over a synchronised automotive bust.

The judge presiding over the case delayed announcing a decision during Tuesday's sentencing hearing.

Nothing is less likely than effective co-operation among inward-looking states presiding over frightened, even xenophobic, societies.

EUROPEAN leaders will find an unfamiliar face presiding over the two-day European Council meeting set to start on Thursday December 10th.

Responsibilities: Assist the Mayor presiding over general work of Municipal Government.

Presiding over Wednesday's Mass was the archbishop of Madrid, Cardinal Antonio Rouco Varela.

Putin, 55, is enormously popular in Russia, presiding over a resurgent economy flush with revenue from oil and natural gas.

Burma's generals have ruled the country since 1962, presiding over one of the world's most repressive governments.

IT'S a Wednesday morning in June, and Brian MacDonald is presiding over back-to-back product meetings for Bing.

Brett Sharenow is presiding over the Pepsi Challenge of lightbulbs.

Jigsaw: Jeff, when the judge presiding over your case sentenced your boy's murderer so lightly, your soul never recovered.

What is harder to establish is whether the productivity revolution that businessmen assume they are presiding over is for real.

Snapshots of Wen presiding over quake-related meetings were also uploaded on the page.

When she arrived at his office, the lawyer was presiding over a session.

Mr Obama is presiding over a jobless recovery.

A judge presiding over Ferrari's court action said a verdict will be declared on Wednesday.

I'd survived, presiding over a trial that was neither great nor good.

They were popular for presiding over a speedy recovery after Argentina's econnomic meltdown in 2001-02.

A divinity presiding over forests and trees ; a wood nymph .

On November 3rd, as The Economist went to press, Mr Draghi was presiding over his first policy meeting.

He was popular for presiding over Utah's biggest-ever tax cut.

Instead, he may end up presiding over an even more precipitous decline in America's regional standing and influence than his predecessor.

He'd been presiding over the country from 1964 until his death in 1982.

presiding over meetings of shareholders' general committee, and calling and presiding over meetings of the board of directors;

Legal View on the System of Presiding over Wedding Ceremony and Matchmaker System in Tang Dynasty

I will not limit my Presidency to presiding over meetings or reading statements;