He was its first Commanding Officer, and had guided it since its formation.

This was already a perilous time for Thomas, who has guided the Knicks as team president since Dec. 22, 2003.

In 1877, Roman Catholic presbytery was founded, its register of birth have been guided since 1877.

The cult of self has guided music since the time of Monteverdi and even before.

Under Mr. Deng, China embarked on the ambitious changes in the economy that have guided its policies since 1978.

Chandler's focus on corporations clearly demonstrated that there were differences, and this thesis has guided organizational sociologists' work since the 1970s.

"I think," he said, "the approach in the case is one that has guided the court in this area since 1954, '52, whatever it was."

A number of principals have guided the schools since its founding.

He has guided the club to five post season berths-the club's most in an 11-season span since 1915-25.

Federal big-science spending has been guided by a politics of display, a taste for the heroic media event, since the space race of the 1960's.