There was one, the Church of the Assumption on the corner, where Father John had once presided.

He had the kind of face you rarely saw anymore-one that had once presided over traveling carnivals.

Again it amazed Isabella that her mother was the same person who had once presided over the great chiteau of Weltevreden.

The verdict stunned the hushed courtroom over which he once presided.

The radio station at which he once presided as a king has relegated him to the midnight-to-3-a.m. slot.

Mother, who once presided as the Iron Magnolia, just lay there, able only to smile and eat.

Mr. Bush once presided over all that - a fact that lends itself to exploitation by those who wish this country no good.

I once presided over an involuntary emergency admission at the state mental hospital for a woman who thought she was Emeril.

A large, baronial painting of Robert, showing him as he once presided over this very room, peers down.

The passenger reminds her of an inmate in Auschwitz over whom she once presided and knows for certain to be dead.