8 sentences with 'presided'
Example sentences and phrases with the word presided and other words derived from it.
• « The Old Kingdom represented a long and unbroken line of kings who presided over the first full flowering of Egyptian culture, architecture and prosperity. »
• « In turn, the remaining polytheists blamed Christians for undermining the worship of the gods who had presided over the Empire while Rome was great. »
• « Theodoric presided over decades of prosperity, restoring peace to the Italian peninsula and joining other Gothic territories in the west. »
• « The feudal lords themselves presided over a rigidly hierarchical social and political system in which one's vocation was largely determined by birth, and the vocation of the nobility was clearly defined by the ownership of land and the waging of war. »
• « Shah Abbas presided over what is remembered in Iranian history as a truly golden age, which flourished simultaneously with the golden ages of the Ottoman Empire and, to the east, the Muslim-ruled Mughal Empire of India. »
• « The importance of the Safavids, although only Ismail and Abbas I were particularly effective rulers, is that they presided over a period in which Persian identity fused its most important constituent elements: »
• « Thus, the English monarchy presided over a divided society. It was also relatively poor, with the English crown overseeing a small bureaucracy and no official standing army. »
• « Year-end celebrations were planned to pay homage to the Revolution itself in quasi-religious ceremonies presided over by Republican officials. »