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Not since Franklin Roosevelt in the second world war has a US president presided over the deaths of so many Americans from a single cause.

Recall how Clinton returned to Arkansas from the campaign trail to preside over the execution of a mentally disabled man.

The convention only gains legitimacy when Washington agrees to not only attend it, but preside over it.

Héctor's older brothers Arturo and Alfredo were men with the right temperament to preside over a multinational crime syndicate.

They are happy to preside over a system where unions are political organizations first and economic ones second.

The village houses are done up in pale gray and mauve and preside over lawns so neat and green they look like carpeting.

Let us begin by establishing well the method that must preside over these investigations.

The trifle sent comes from a higher source; and the august hand so dear to both of us, deigned to preside over the arrangement.

She made the tea and coffee morning and evening, and did every thing but preside at the table.

Judge of our esteem for you by the preciousness of the body over which we are thus calling you to preside.'

The director-general retained the right to preside at meetings.