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Each county elects a presiding officer, known as a county judge, and four commissioners.

The presiding light behind this creation was a woman named Natalia Murray.

However, when asked to give the verdict in public by the presiding judge, one voter recanted.

But six months into his probation, Bartiromo asked the judge presiding over his case for a reprieve.

He might as well have been presiding instead of the Judiciary Committee chairman, Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy.

In Florida (as in most states) there is near zero discretion given to a judge presiding over a DUI case.

At a table in the little parlour sat the clerk's wife, presiding at a solitary tea-table by the light of a candle.

The larger cubiculum has two tufa seats at the side, and one more elevated for the presiding presbyter.

Ista (Venus) was the goddess of beauty, presiding over the loves of both men and animals, and was worshipped with unchaste rites.

A divinity presided over bakers, another over ovens,--every vocation and every household transaction had its presiding deities.

The presiding magistrate then pronounces whether it is to be allowed to live, or whether it is to be put to death.