How to Use "preside" with Example Sentences

1. That dream is why someone who began by sweeping the floors of his father 's cincinnati bar can preside as speaker of the house in the greatest nation on earth . ( Applause . )

2. Even more challenging are isolated regime strongholds like sirte , dominated by the colonel qaddafi 's own qadadfa tribe , or the oasis town of sebha , where the qadadfa preside over a coalition of other clans .