In his first six weeks in office he presided over 96 conferences, attended 35 official breakfasts and dinners, studied and signed 285 official papers and personally took 312 telephone calls.

:* One who cultivates one of the fine arts – traditionally the arts presided over by the muses

Historically, in some Celtic monasteries abbesses presided over joint-houses of monks and nuns, the most famous example being Saint Brigid of Kildare's leadership in the founding of the monastery at Kildare in Ireland.

In 49, Agrippina presided over the exercises of Roman legions.

Johnson then presided over the initial and contentious Reconstruction era of the United States following the American Civil War.

No judges presided over the courts nor did anyone give legal direction to the jurors ; magistrates had only an administrative function and were laymen.

Like all early Germanic rulers, he was heavily involved in ecclesiastical disputes ; in 895, at the Diet of Tribur, he presided over a dispute between the Episcopal sees of Bremen, Hamburg and Cologne over jurisdictional authority, which saw Bremen and Hamburg remain a combined see, independent of the see of Cologne.

His rabbinic education was acquired mainly at Tiberias, in the academy presided over by R. Johanan, with whom his relations were almost those of a son ( Yer.

During the Civil War, prior to the siege of Raglan Castle in 1645, King Charles I visited Abergavenny and presided in person over the trial of Sir Trefor Williams, 1st Baronet of Llangibby, a Royalist who changed sides, and other Parliamentarians.

The four reportedly pledged themselves to Jihad in the Spring of 2000, in a ceremony presided over by Wail – who had dubbed himself Abu Mossaeb al-Janubi after one of Muhammad's companions.

It was presided over by Athanasius and Eusebius of Vercelli, and was directed against those who denied the divinity of the Holy Spirit, the human soul of Christ, and Christ's divinity.

The New York Times has identified 1520 Sedgwick Avenue " an otherwise unremarkable high-rise just north of the Cross Bronx Expressway and hard along the Major Deegan Expressway " as a starting point, where DJ Kool Herc presided over parties in the community room.

As president, Clinton presided over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in American history.

Clinton presided over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in American history.

The government of the Fourth Republic includes a strong presidency, a prime minister, a Council of Ministers presided over by the president, a two-chamber National Assembly, and the judiciary.

On 14 July 1879, another feast took place, with a semi-official aspect ; the events of the day included a reception in the Chamber of Deputies, organised and presided over by Léon Gambetta, a military review in Longchamp, and a Republican Feast in the Pré Catelan.

Having presided over relatively serene political, economic and social conditions, the feeling of prosperity in the UK had been maintained into the new millennium, and Labour would have a free hand to assert its ideals in the subsequent parliament.

Although he presided over a large majority, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was overshadowed by his ministers, most notably Herbert Henry Asquith at the Exchequer, Edward Grey at the Foreign Office, Richard Burdon Haldane at the War Office and David Lloyd George at the Board of Trade.

For example, Reserve Bank of India governor James Braid Taylor presided over the country's move from silver currency to fiat money.

A collective body, the National Council of Public Safety ( CNSP ), presided over by Brigadier General Robert Guéi, took control.

The Qin Emperor presided over the brutal silencing of political opposition, including the event known as the burning of books and burying of scholars.

His government also presided over the decolonisation of a large part of the British Empire when India, Pakistan, Burma, Ceylon and Jordan were granted independence.

Attlee's administration presided over the successful transition from a wartime economy to peacetime, tackling problems of demobilisation, shortages of foreign currency, and adverse deficits in trade balances and government expenditure.

Charles was the main host and presided over the arena in which teams of amateur engineers battled their home-made radio-controlled robots against each other, and against the house robots.

The formal structure of the Qing government centered on the Emperor as the absolute ruler, who presided over six Boards ( Ministries ) (), each headed by two presidents (; Ma: 40px Aliha amban ) and assisted by four vice presidents (; Ma: 40px Ashan i amban ).

The associates also presided over four judicial districts.

The four reportedly pledge themselves to Jihad in the Spring of 2000, in a ceremony presided over by Wail — who had dubbed himself Abu Mossaeb al-Janubi after one of Muhammad's companions.

It was in this capacity he presided over the Congress of the Peoples of the East in Baku in September 1920 and gave his famous four hour speech in German at the Halle congress of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany in October 1920.

Catalan nationalism, under the leadership of Prat de la Riba, achieved in 1913 a victory in obtaining partial self-government for the " Commonwealth " ( Catalan: Mancomunitat ; Spanish: Mancomunidad ), a grouping of the four Catalan provinces, presided over first by Prat de la Riba, and later by Josep Puig i Cadafalch ; this was later suppressed in March 1925, during the 1923-1930 dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera.

Mobutu presided over the country for some four decades, despite many reports of abuses and human-rights violations.

On 28 August 1457, after four years of uneasy peace in England the king presided over a wasting realm, with feudal barons lording over the population of the north and the west of the realm.

The Township of Laughlin, which is a judicial district for the purposes of elections, consists of a Justice Court, presided over by a Justice of the Peace ( elected for a six year term as a non-partisan official ) and a Constable ( elected for a four year term as a partisan official ).

Delderfield attended an infant school in Bermondsey, then a " seedy and pretentious " small private school —" seventy boys and four underpaid ushers, presided over by a jovial gentleman who wore blue serge ".

Before arriving at Al-Farouq, the four reportedly pledged themselves to jihad in Spring 2000, in a ceremony presided over by Wail, who had dubbed himself Abu Mossaeb al-Janubi after one of Muhammad's companions.

In the same year, he presided over the first Governor General's Canadian Study Conference ( which has subsequently occurred every four years ).

It had over 3000 churches, over 1200 traveling preachers, 2500 local preachers, about 140, 000 members, and 22 Annual Conferences, presided over by four bishops.

Each cycle is presided over by a number of Manus, one for each Manvantara, that has four ages, Yugas of declining virtues.

Every four years, an installation ceremony, presided over by the Great Master, and a religious service are held in the Chapel ; the Sovereign attends every alternate ceremony.

The Commission will be composed of 10 members, presided by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Constitutional Court and four other ex officio members of the judiciary who are the most senior serving Deputy President of each of the Supreme Constitutional, the Court of Cassation, and the High Administrative Court, and the president of the Cairo Court of Appeal.

The Sabor is presided over by a Speaker, who is assisted by at least one deputy speaker ( usually four or five deputies ).

In this time, he presided over four cabinets, the first two being civic minority governments, later joined by the DNVP.

As a strong supporter of independence, he was also elected as a delegate to the first four provincial congresses and presided over the Third and Fourth congresses in 1775 and 1776.

Instead, the Church of Norway has a Bishop ’ s Conference which is presided over by a praeses which is elected for four years.

Each fully endowed congregation was presided over by its angel or bishop ; under him were twenty-four priests, divided variously into the four ministries of elders, prophets, evangelists, and pastors.

He presided over the last four sessions of the council, confirmed all the ordinances made by the cardinals after their refusal of obedience to the antipopes, united the two sacred colleges, and subsequently declared that he would work energetically for reform.

After a short time, Smith was appointed to the pastorate, an office that seems to have only existed in the British Mission and only for a short time, in which position he presided over the Sheffield as well as four other adjacent conferences.

Coysevox, his maternal uncle, who presided over the recently-established Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture ; and at twenty-three he gained the Colbert prize ( the Prix de Rome, which entitled him to four years of education at the French Academy at Rome.

It was presided over by three Elders, the Venerable Mahathera Jagarabhivamsa, the Venerable Narindabhidhaja, and the Venerable Mahathera Sumangalasami in the company of some two thousand four hundred monks ( 2, 400 ).