Sentences with phrase «presided over a mind»

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The board also promised to establish «a new mind - set» at the company, with «more capacity for criticism» — seemingly conceding there was something poisonous about the culture Winterkorn presided over.

The former longtime Mozilla VP and co-founder moved down to Menlo Park, CA from Toronto last January and has helped preside over the company's internal shift to a mobile frame of mind.

In a letter announcing his retirement from the army at the close of the War, he wrote: «I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow Citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of the Divine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.»

Rick Santorum is a fruitcake, and he is presiding over a party of radical, pin - headed, Chicken Littles who have lost their minds!!!

2 The overseer should therefore be irreprehensible, a husband of one wife, moderate in habits, sound in mind, orderly, hospitable, qualified to teach, 3 not a drunken brawler, not a smiter, but reasonable, not belligerent, not a lover of money, 4 a man presiding over his own household in a fine manner, having children in subjection with all seriousness; 5 (if indeed any man does not know how to preside over his own household, how will he take care of God's congregation?)

It is tempting — to me, at any rate — to imagine humanity standing at the apex of the material world's «great chain of being» not as a kind of cosmic viceroy presiding over an alien colony, but as the true mediator of rational light to the physical realm, including the minds and wills of beasts.

Gaskin presides over a large multi-faceted business empire comprised of trade, propaganda and lobbying organizations, all with one purpose in mind: allowing uneducated women like herself to provide substandard medical care to pregnant women while ignoring the growing pile of tiny bodies.

At last night's 75th Annual Golden Globes Awards, late - night host Seth Meyers presided over a predictable catharsis of outrage over sexual harassment (we'll hear more on that on Oscar night) but — to my mind — there was a surprise in the emergence of a front - runner for the Oscars, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

The requirement for neutrality does not require judges to discount the very life experiences that may so well qualify them to preside over disputes... True impartiality does not require that the judge have no sympathies or opinions; it requires that the judge nevertheless be free to entertain and act upon different points of view with an open mind.