preside over something *

Now, though, he had come to terms with the knowledge that he was presiding over something that was well beyond his intellectual grasp.

In contrast, Mr. Blair's Labor government has good cause to boast: by increasing spending on the arts, it has presided over something of a cultural renaissance here.

The man who bills himself as the Thomas Edison of Japan has been in New York all week, presiding over something called the World Genius Convention.

Martin Anderson, who edited the volume and who presides over something of a Reagan industry at the Hoover Institution, is at work on a follow-up volume of Reagan's private letters.

But in a cinder-block barn near the jet path of Kennedy International Airport, the subway's chief electricians were presiding over something that looked like some kind of miniature mission control, much more rocket science than railroading.