presiding officer

NOUN
  1. the leader of a group meeting
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  • Since no conceivable purpose could have been served by pursuing such an appeal, and since Al Gore himself was the presiding officer who rightly gavelled down the protests as out of order, Al Gore is evil, and not qualified to serve as President. Archive 2004-06-01
  • A sign of things to come for McConnell was demonstrated by the widespread revolt against his nominee for deputy presiding officer.
  • Moreover, the presiding officer can admit previous evidence extracted by torture.
  • Schleiermacher was also involved at the synodical level; in 1817, at the time of the king's push for a union of Lutheran and Reformed churches, Schleiermacher was the Presiding Officer of the Synod of Berlin.
  • Before the American experiments in constitutionalism, the most prominent example of a “president” was the presiding officer in the king’s privy council in Stuart times. Matthew Yglesias » Presidential Trouble
  • The ancient office of Lord Chancellor—formerly the head of the judiciary, presiding officer of the House of Lords and a cabinet minister all at once—was broken into three.
  • George Reid, the Presiding Officer, essayed a bit of Gaelic, then introduced the Lewis psalm-singers.
  • There are whole pages full of Masonic toasts from which the presiding officer could select, and after every one of which a bumper was drunk by the Brethren present.
  • The activist, whose daughter was a presiding officer for one polling station, has strenuously denied any impropriety.
  • The presiding officer ruled that the motion was out of order.
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