0 to be in charge of a formal meeting, ceremony, or trial: --
2 to be in charge of a formal meeting or ceremony: --
preside at sth The Chairman shall preside at meetings of the stockholders.
These committees consist of three members: a presiding lawyer, an ethicist, and a physician.
Nevertheless, the presiding argument - that "real readers" sometimes differed radically from their conceptual counterparts - is a persuasive one.
This ritualised relationship between the neophyte and the presiding initiate is conceived in terms of godparenthood : godchild (ahijado) to godfather (padrino).
His contention that the nation with the strongest labour force ' presided ' over world civilisation clearly implied a struggle with winners and losers.
She presides only partially over the meaning of her text.
This involved the appointment of judges who personally presided over the annual distribution of plots and recorded the names of the beneficiaries.
It is not surprising, therefore, that princes sometimes found themselves presiding over the complete alienation of pledge objects from their domain.
These courts are presided over by a three-judge panel.
