NOUN
- a permanent executive committee in socialist countries that has all the powers of some larger legislative body and that acts for it when it is not in session
How To Use praesidium In A Sentence
- I. Elect and appoint the chairman or members of the presidium of inaugural meeting.
- Political weight has been involved in the antigovernment protests, with some opposition leaders calling for an establishment of a presidium to replace the current government whom they claim had lost public confidence.
- Often they could not see the speaker or presidium even by craning their necks.
- Evaluations of policies are conducted through research and expert analysis supported by the Presidium's administrative staff.
- A photo from Korea Central News Agency, the nation's official news service, showed Mr. Carter greeting Kim Yong-nam, president of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea. Carter in North Korea
- Then, in the mid-1930s, the People's Commissariat for the Defense Industry was established which was subsequently, under the January 11, 1939 decree of the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium, divided up into five separate commissariats.
- He joined its central committee and then also the central committee of the league's praesidium in 1974. Times, Sunday Times
- The detention and trial of some presidium leaders, and the rapprochement with other members of the elite also reflects some of the proposals.
- The service identified Mr. Yang as a vice president of parliament's presidium and a member of the political bureau of the party's Central Committee. U.S. Expects to Restart Bilateral Talks With Pyongyang by January
- He had not submitted in advance for the approval of his comrades in the Party Presidium.
