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In modern Italian the word "preside" is still used to indicate the head of primary or secondary school, generally equivalent to the American principal or the British headmaster positions. In Norway, the office of archbishop has been abolished. Instead, the Lutheran Church of Norway has a Bishops Conference which is presided over by a praeses.
Christina Magnuson, as chairman, [37] presides over the 2016 annual meeting of the Friends of the Ulriksdal Palace Theater. Many companies in the US have an executive chair; this method of organization is sometimes called the American model. Having a non-executive chair is common in the UK and Canada; this is sometimes called the British model.
Renji can be written in Hiragana as レンジ. In Kanji, it can be alternatively rendered as; 廉侍 "a pure heart, samurai." 蓮司 "lotus, preside over."
Mr. President" has subsequently been used by governments to refer to their heads of state. It is the conventional translation of non-English titles such as Monsieur le Président for the president of the French Republic. It also has a long history of usage as the title of the presiding officers of legislative and judicial bodies.
The president presides over Council meetings and carries out certain representative functions that, in other countries, are the business of the head of state. In urgent situations where a Council decision cannot be made in time, the president is empowered to act on behalf of the whole Council.
Oct. 10—SANTA FE — A New Mexico state agency facing a lawsuit from the state's judiciary over its handling of a court-approved paid leave policy says it's improper for sitting judges to ...
A president pro tempore or speaker pro tempore is a constitutionally recognized officer of a legislative body who presides over the chamber in the absence of the normal presiding officer. [1] The phrase pro tempore is Latin "for the time being".
In the Latin Church, a primate is an archbishop—or, rarely, a suffragan or exempt bishop—of a specific (mostly metropolitan) episcopal see (called a primatial see) who has precedence over the bishoprics of one or more ecclesiastical provinces of a particular historical, political or cultural area.