Presiding

The presiding judge sentenced the defendant to death.

The presiding judge was touched by pity for the accused.

Well did I come to know the presiding dryads of those trees, and often have I watched their wild dances in the struggling beams of waning moon—but of these things I must not now speak.

Bouteflika was a sick leader presiding over a sick country.

Sparta was deprived of her share in the Amphictyonic privileges; the two votes in the council possessed by the Phocians were transferred to the kings of Macedonia; and Philip was to share with the Thebans and Thessalians the honour of presiding at the Pythian games (B.C. 346).

Saint Brigid of Kildare founded a Celtic monastery in Ireland, presiding over both nuns and monks as its abbess.

As the presiding deity over agriculture, he was styled Sylvanus, whilst in his character as guardian of the state, he bore the name of Quirinus.