How To Use Commanding In A Sentence

His quiet voice was commanding and proved effective as the pair settled down.
The commanding general wishes to talk to her himself, but it is of low priority, with the fight so close at hand.
I support a troop's right to disobey his or her commanding officer, to desert, to subvert the system that enslaves him.
On the ‘digital’ battlefield there is a real likelihood that brigade commanders will talk directly to sergeants or corporals commanding sections and that intermediate officers will be sidelined.
To make a Secondary World inside which the green sun will be credible, commanding Secondary Belief, will probably require labour and thought, and will certainly demand a special skill, a kind of elvish craft. Kicking the Hobbit

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The most commanding presence is the horse chestnut tree, often a massive green tower covered with bright white lanterns. Times, Sunday Times
Crawfish King and Hot Space attempted to challenge their unbeaten rival on the backstretch but were no match for Lost in the Fog, who was ridden out after gaining a commanding five-length lead entering the stretch.
John Edwards says he's undaunted by John Kerry's commanding lead.
He watched the poor wretch the commanding officer was lecturing, and looked on him with little pity.
To be commanding in the air requires courage and technique. Times, Sunday Times
This CD blends an equal amount of exciting reels, jigs and hornpipes, along with a selection of old and new songs performed by the lyrical and commanding voice of Ciarán Ó Gealbháin, who is joined on one of the tracks by the great Liam Clancy.
They stepped so high, the bagpipes sounded a dirge, they snapped their heads around at attention at their commanding officer.
Emly had a commanding lead of seven points at half-time.
The days of a manager commanding respect from his players simply because of who he is are long gone if they ever existed at all.
There she found a unit of infantry soldiers who were also without a commanding officer.
That had something to do with Mehta's commanding, yet mellow, personality, but it also had a lot to do with the orchestra's professionalism.
The police could not arrest anyone, for the basket contained two Members of Parliament and the commanding Officer of the station!
Lorin Maazel, late of the New York Philharmonic -- where he drew both barbs and bravos from the critics -- strode vigorously across stage to the Disney Hall podium, telegraphing to the audience that this was no crochety 79-year-old maestro, but a commanding presence still, no matter which orchestra he stands before (of the 150 he's led over five decades). Donna Perlmutter: Maazel to the Podium -- Still Collecting Orchestras
Captain John Frankford, commanding the 18-gun privateer Belvedere out of Philadelphia, had several spirited engagements with French xebecs and privateers off the Spanish coast in the spring of 1799 during the Quasi-War with France.
No one knew what to say, but everyone was adamant that no bottle of catsup would disgrace that table, even if the supplicant was a senator commanding a vital vote. Centennial
The 29 bedrooms - some set on a split-level - have commanding views over the local hills.
The commanding officer put Sergeant Williams in for a medal for bravery.
His enthusiasm and commanding personality enabled him to influence greatly the work of many of his juniors, so that they came to reverence him as the founder of their careers.
He would become an American or Australian Abraham, commanding like a monarch his flocks and his herds, his spotted and his ring-straked, his men-servants and his maids. Tess of the d'Urbervilles
I was overwhelmed by his commanding, assured musicianship in Bach, Haydn, Chopin, Smetana, Liszt, and Grainger.
Working like beavers, Montcalm's men dragged twenty cannon to a hill commanding the fort, known as "Fort Rascal" because the outfort there was useless to the English. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom
Our team has a commanding lead of forty to twenty.
An order for the immediate arrest of Vittoria was brought round to the stage at the fall of the curtain by Captain Weisspriess, and delivered by him on the stage to the officer commanding, a pothered lieutenant of Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
The voice was cold and hostile, asking the question in a composed yet commanding way.
In fact, about a month later, they did find a tutor who was trilingual, commanding American Sign Language, English, and Spanish, who began giving classes in their homes.
He has a commanding presence, demanding attention and respect, and an image (glasses, suit and hat) that hasn't changed much in 30 years.
His appointment as aide-de-camp to the commanding officer of the Australian Military Forces enabled him to see much of the new army before he was selected to attend the British Army Staff College in 1906, the first Australian to do so.
Junior officers in the British army require their commanding officer's permission to marry or they are obliged to resign their commission.
‘Welcome aboard the Oberon, Captain,’ Reagan said, addressing Lawrence by the honorific he deserved as commanding officer of a ship.
The "omission of the General's title" is the subject of complaint, as if this title were sufficient evidence of the commanding powers of one of the patrons of tractoration. Medical Essays, 1842-1882
Political leaders and heads of state last night paid tribute to a commanding figure who survived both an assassination attempt and a brush with cancer during his time in the Oval Office.
But in this short time, a male can contribute more offspring to the population than the female by commanding the territories of several breeding tigresses.
Not only a commanding physical presence, the former WWE wrestling champion brings a gratifying level of depth and humanity to the role first seen on the screen in 1973.
On the upper floors are a documentation centre and administrative offices with a commanding view of the city.
India also took a commanding 3-lead in the final set, but Japan fought back to make it 5-5.
Commanding his Galatian troopers with valor and shrewdness, Quintus Poppaedius Silo penned Labienus in halfway through the pass across Mount Amanus called the Syrian Gates, and waited for Ventidius to bring up the legions. Antony and Cleopatra
[142] In a severe reprimand addressed to Captain Carkett, commanding the leading ship of the English line, by Rodney, he says: "Your leading in the manner you did, induced others to follow so bad an example; and thereby, forgetting that the signal for the line was at only two cables 'length distance from each other, the van division was led by you to _more than two leagues distance_ from the centre division, which was thereby exposed to the greatest strength of the enemy and not properly supported" (Life, vol.i. p. 351). The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
And yet there was something rather "uppish" in commanding a frigate at the very first set-off, and little spread was left for the ambition. Dream Days
Gahagan, Commanding Irregular Horse, Abmednuggar, to Belinda, second daughter of Major – General Bulcher, C.B. His Excellency the Commander-inChief gave away the bride; and after a splendid dejeune, the happy pair set off to pass the Mango season at Burlesques
The first advance of the little army of the elect reawakened their rage; they grasped their arms, and waited but their leader's signal to commence the attack, when the clear tones of Adrian's voice were heard, commanding them to fall back; with confused murmur and hurried retreat, as the wave ebbs clamorously from the sands it lately covered, our friends obeyed. III.4
The library was a commanding central presence on the campuses of the new universities built in the 1960s and 1970s.
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‘Could be better,’ the commodore commanding the 1st Task Force admitted.
The green tabs should be placed on MP unit leaders' shoulders in recognition that they are equals with their combat branch counterparts when it comes to commanding their units in battle.
I would not be in favor of seeing another commanding officer in charge of the military.
When confronted by their disapproving commanding officer, one of the soldiers says he doesn't know why they're even there.
The commanding officer is putting Sergeant Green in for the Victoria Cross.
The moment I've previously called transfiguration is tantamount to the sexual release Hitchcock obtained by controlling and commanding the beautiful women he could never possess sexually in real life. InstaPunk
Sabrina's normally soft voice changed to the slightly familiar commanding tone as she and her mother boomed out ‘HO!’
Taken aback, she stammeringly asked them, ‘Are you sure your commanding officer sent you to the right address?’
I believe with the addition of a creative midfielder and a commanding centre half this team has every chance of making the play-offs.
Jack sighed lustily, then shifted to move over her, one elbow planted on either side, his expression arrogantly commanding. A Lady of Expectations
Sir, — Your being personally present in this sever sea - son which we know stroungly impresses your mind with a scene of their suffering circumstances, therefor having no doupt of your humanity to relieve them, and justis to hear their complaints when founded on justis and reason, gives us, the commanding officers of the regiments in the 3 1 * and 4 th brigades, to lay the complaints of the soldiers to the officers of the scantity of their present alowance of their provision under the heavey fatigue this garrison is now subject to, which is more sever than at any other time, in hailing provisions, forage and material for the barracks over and above the supply of wood for the garrison and ourselves; and the beef being thin and not any vegetables at this season to be procured as in time pass. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
The car has certainly proved itself as a worthy mileage machine, the high seating position offering a commanding view of the road.
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always a passionate ornithologist, Messiaen would ask Pasquier, his commanding officer, to assign him the early watch so that he could observe the awakening of the birds. A POW's Awe-Inspiring Act of Faith
As chief commanding officer of his unit, Donovan led patrol and combat missions, and he recounts the suspense and sheer terror of night ambushes, surprise attacks and man-to-man warfare.
TOG, read my post further down about will vs. free will, choice and metaphysics. this verse is basically commanding believers not to fall away in unbelief. but how does it support Arminianism, or free will theology (if you refuse to be called Arminian)? the ability not to fall away comes from God anyway ( Pulpit Pimps
No matter how powerful and commanding your voice, it always sounds weak and feeble after loud music and graphics on a big screen, but the drama that was about to unfold really was a jarring contrast.
As I passed a doorway, someone grabbed me by the elbow and dragged me inside, commanding, ‘Buy chicha!’
Next month, Congress will get another report on the war from American ambassador Ryan Crocker and commanding General David Petraeus.
The matter was passed on to me, as your commanding officer.
He has a commanding presence and an authoritative voice.
Not only was he a commanding batsman, but was an outstanding fielder.
The contrast between Tagore's commanding presence in Bengali literature and culture, and his near-total eclipse in the rest of the world, is perhaps less interesting than the distinction between the view of Tagore as a deeply relevant and many-sided contemporary thinker in Bangladesh and Tagore and His India
He could hear the voice of the man commanding them - the Commander was not here.
It seems like only an instant has passed when we are abruptly shaken from sleep by a loud voice commanding everyone to now go to the main gate.
One team has already built up a commanding lead.
The French vessel has a commanding lead.
In the absence of my commanding officer, I acted on my own initiative.
Then he saw one figure, taller, more commanding than all the rest, wearing a white dhoti with a gold edge. TANK OF SERPENTS
The vigour, originality and abstractness are as commandingly present as ever. The Times Literary Supplement
Our team has a commanding lead of forty to twenty.
Our team has a commanding lead of forty to twenty.
The black-moustachiod face gazed down from every commanding corner. Nineteen Eighty-Four
It cannot be revoked, we are all mortal, and these all commanding gods and princes die like men: [3898] — involvit humile pariter et celsum caput, aquatque summis infima. Anatomy of Melancholy
In the earliest cosmologies, man placed himself in a commanding position at the centre of the universe.
United States in Congress assembled_: That the thanks of Congress are due, and are hereby tendered to Captain David Ritchie, commanding the revenue steamer Mocassin, and to the officers and men under his command, for their heroic and humane action in saving the lives of forty-two persons from the wreck of the steamer "Metis" on the waters of Long Island Sound, on the morning of the thirty-first of August, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
During one point in the movie, recognizing the Tennessee woodsman's talent as a marksman, two of his commanding officers try to persuade him to accept a promotion.
Their commanding officer perseveres forward, but finds himself betrayed by a non-com concerned with self-salvation alone.
The "rotund" man with the "violent temper [and] dictatorial, commanding attitude" toward the masseuse, acted like a "crazed sex poodle. News of the Weird / Pro Edition
Reid is also looked on favorably by the lascar, natives of the Indian Ocean area who manned the European-owned ships, he ends up commanding on the way to Calcutta. Book Review: Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh « A Progressive on the Prairie
On three of my assignments (one involving 48 hours in a very cramped "pillbox" watchtower), the commanding officers were 19-year-old girls. JPost Headlines
General Jackson therefore has no lack of experience of infantry soldiering, having been a platoon commander, adjutant, company commander and commanding officer in infantry battalions.
The view from the lofty driver's seat is still the most commanding you'll get this side of a tank turret. Times, Sunday Times
He has a commanding presence and deep, authoritative voice.
Apartment buildings overlook it, but they are not the luxury units one might expect with such a commanding view of the waterway.
Libby asked, her voice soft but commanding him to return to her.
The new hide here is far from that - built from Welsh Oak in a distinctive heron shape, it stands on stilts in one of the lakes, providing visitors with a commanding position from which to view the birdlife.
The Socialists now have a commanding lead over their opponents.
Session) with an eye as fine and soft as the Thracian Rhodope's, or as threatening and commanding as that of Mars -- even a hectoring fiery thrasonic Hibernian Mars -- himself, without being able to tell whether it was a black or a blue one, or even a Green or a Yellow. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 22, 1893
Percival was off mistreating Irish Republican Army (IRA) leaders during the Anglo-Irish War before commanding British Malaya in World War II.
Colin Baker had learned to ride horses while commanding the Hunter River lancers from 1983-86 as a member of the Army reserve.
This was an area that they were still a little bit concerned that there might be some what they call paramilitary resistance and the commanding officer, Colonel Richard Mills (ph), described the approach as controlled aggression. CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2003
I would not be in favor of seeing another commanding officer in charge of the military.
He was hauled before his commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel James Stevenson, and summarily dismissed.
Does she perform several different speech acts with the word, questioning, commanding, wishing, stating?
The great central figure, the tallest and most commanding in the whole church, is not the Virgin, but her mother Saint Anne, standing erect as on the trumeau of the door beneath, and holding the infant Mary on her left arm. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
Toler's reason for it was that he was too _constitutional_ to interfere with a jury, Be that as it may, a nonsuit was a nonentity, 'I hope, my Lord,' said counsel in a case actually commanding one, 'your Lordship will, for once, have the courage to nonsuit? The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851
To be commanding in the air requires courage and technique. Times, Sunday Times
From the roadside vantage points we had stunning views of McKinley's commanding summit bathed in alpenglow and reflected in Wonder Lake.
Against such theories, Tredell sets those which emerge from other disciplines, and which have lately been more commanding and influential.
When I was in the military, my commanding officer would issue orders to his troops, if you carried them out as instructed, you were a good soldier!
She paled beneath the onslaught of that commanding seduction, her expression suddenly going slack. Brush of Darkness
In any democracy suffering the collapse of its government with no single party commanding the necessary majority to mount a new one, a general election would follow.
In any case, Lucy's claims that she'd escaped detection for three years in cramped quarters occupied by 450 men, where the toilets were a couple of open-air perches at the ship's beakhead, and where the regulations of the day required all Marines to strip, bathe, and dress in the presence of a commanding officer responsible for checking frequently on their physical condition, were patently ridiculous. Countdown
When you talk about demons over cities, we're talking about what - sometimes what we refer to as territorial spirits and they're more high-ranking spirits in the hierarchy of darkness and they're more powerful and they require different approaches and it's not as easy as commanding them to leave in the name of Jesus. NPR Topics: News
I recall a marine commanding officer looking around in bewilderment after storming a strongly held Argentine mountain summit at negligible cost. Times, Sunday Times
He was five foot ten, muscular and powerful, with a commanding personality. The Other Side of Me
He did not disturb his _valet de chambre_, who was sleeping soundly at some distance; he dressed himself, and the valet, in a great fright, sprang up, thinking he had been deficient in his duty; but the king sent him back again, commanding him to preserve the most absolute silence. The Vicomte De Bragelonne
He really stepped on the gas racing up the far side where he held a commanding lead.
She had a commanding lead, and it narrowed, and then she won convincingly, so it was good news for Republicans across the board.
This duty of a commanding officer has heretofore been recognized, and its breach penalized by our own military tribunals.
Niccolò, therefore, caused this castle to be built, which he strengthened with massive walls and towers commanding the whole city, and rendered inaccessible by surrounding it with a deep and wide canal from the river Reno.], and modern civilization has not crossed the castle moat, to undignify its exterior with any visible touch of the present. Italian Journeys
It is an oft-told story, but can still stir anger and pity, with the family feuding of the aristocratic popinjays commanding the brigade even spilling over onto the battlefield.
Commanding Officer of HMAS Rankin, LCDR Steve Hussey, salutes as the Last Post is sounded during the Freedom of Entry to Cobar.
Riel also secured the consent of Colonel Black, the commanding officer at Fort Assinniboine, to allow the Metis to overwinter at the Big Bend of the Milk River.
He then made the unwise decision to divide his force into three columns, he himself commanding one.
There is a rose garden dotted with pink, red and yellow roses, as well as an outcrop of red sandstone which enjoys a commanding view.
To copy correspondence, an admiral commanding an entire fleet might have two or three clerks, an aide/flag lieutenant, and occasionally a supply officer.
That was a cruel blow for Howard Wilkinson's team, who had made a committed, controlled and commanding start.
She swallowed bile and willed the pill to dissolve faster, sneaking a glance at her fellow commanding officers, all arrayed around the readout in stolid contemplation. â€œLooks like the blast points were precise, â€ one of the men observed, pointing out charred circles on the readout with his stylus. â€œThey maximized human casualties rather than structural damage. â€ â€œThat makes sense, â€ a blue-eyed woman replied. â€œThatâ€ ™ s one of the few plants that isnâ€ ™ t automated. 365 tomorrows » J. Loseth : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
As a result their testosterone oestrogen balance changes and they may become increasingly commanding. Times, Sunday Times
Commanding 36 ships and 2000 fellow buccaneers, Morgan sacked the town and left his men to the burning and looting.
Clinton syphoned off suburban traditional Republican voters while still commanding backing from the poor and black Democrats in the inner-cities.
His mother's lover, General Victor Lahorie, her husband's former commanding officer, was executed for plotting against Napoleon in 1812.
His boots and purple beret identify him as commanding the Scottish Paratroops.
No matter how powerful and commanding your voice, it always sounds weak and feeble after loud music and graphics on a big screen, but the drama that was about to unfold really was a jarring contrast.
It is so commanding that he who stands on the westmost pinnacle can look across the windy hill of the Pnyx, across the brown plain-land and down to the sparkling blue sea with the busy havens of Peiræus and A Victor of Salamis
Astonishingly, he still has time to woo his commanding officer's wife. The Sun
She enlists in the army in the hope of finding a new direction, but comes into conflict with her tough commanding officer. The Sun
Like all the graduating cadets, he was assigned to a unit as a platoon lieutenant, commanding the ranks of the enlisted men.
The most striking object in the place is the belfry of the cathedral, a detached octangular tower, roofed with a pear-shaped dome, of coloured tiles, and commanding from the summit a fine view of the plains from the sea to the distant mountains. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.
She is likely to be court-martialled for disobeying her commanding officer.
The infighting has been an unwelcome distraction for a candidate who was poised to sail into the governor's mansion after winning a commanding 49% of the vote in a four-way primary. South Carolina's Haley Faces Fire From Party Members
But his commanding officers in the desert know that if they do something like that, they will be personally held responsible for war crimes after the war is over.
Your commanding officers will not take kindly to your disregard to authority.
To lose a commanding officer who was such an inspiring person is an awful tragedy. The Sun
He practically wheeled full round, sweeping the gallery with a commanding, imperious glare. GOTHIC PURSUIT
The castles were built by the dukes, and barons, and other feudal chieftains of the middle ages, and they are placed in these commanding positions in order that the chieftains who lived in them might watch the river, and the roads leading along the banks of it, and come down with a troop of their followers to exact what they called tribute, but what those who had to pay it called plunder, from the merchants or travellers whom they saw from the windows of their watchtowers, passing up and down. Rollo on the Rhine
The tallest man in the room, he is more teacherly than commanding. Times, Sunday Times
'It is all settled; let us return,' said Amanda, appearing at last with an air of triumph, having appeased the old lady by eating green currants, and admiring an earwiggy arbour, commanding a fine view of a marsh where frogs were piping and cool mists rising as the sun set. Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag
West then rounded-off an unstoppable forward drive from a line-out a few metres out to give his side a commanding 20-3 lead at half-time.
He did not question their character, as he had on previous occasions, but he could not conceal his dismay at the way they defended after finding themselves in a commanding lead 10 minutes before half time.
The United States today retains a commanding military edge over all other nations.
The president is a man with a commanding appearance.
A commanding officer sentenced him to 35 days in jail.
The words were soft and magical in the air, commanding me to agree with him.
As on the Westminster stage he has a commanding presence among the assorted collection of European heads of government and their respective finance ministers.
He wrote many books, commanding a swathe of medieval history as if it had been a personal fiefdom. Times, Sunday Times
It's a modern house, commanding magnificent vistas of Clew Bay and the mountains of Mayo as well as a bird's eye view of jetty goings-on.
Never very numerous, they reached this commanding position by an incisive and unexcelled diplomacy.
As a rule the naval assemblies were directed by the commanding officers of ports and naval depots, their highest body being the general meeting convened not less than once a year with a permission of the port commander.
His commanding physique simply reeked of total class.
Though by modern standards there is little explicit bloodiness, the stretching of time through editing, and the sheer, ugly physicality of the fighting itself, leaves us with a commanding sense of the inescapable calculus of violence.
Partly it is the voice, which is boomy and commanding. Times, Sunday Times
In the other case, the court decided that the proceedings to re-expel us were irregular, and directed an alternative writ to issue, commanding the Judge to vacate the order and to permit us to practice in all the courts of the district, or to show cause to the contrary, at the next term. Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State
Despite her small size, the child has a commanding presence.
Matthew Bland was commanding in midfield and threatened the Hemsworth goal with a fierce drive which was just tipped over.
The other bank of the stream was open ground - a gentle slope topped with a stockade of vertical tree trunks, loopholed for rifles, with a single embrasure through which protruded the muzzle of a brass cannon commanding the bridge.
Army Major General R.K. Hooda, the commanding officer of Maharashtra state, cautioned reporters not to speculate on how long it would take for troops to end the siege by the heavily-armed gunmen.
Determined to know the worst, I remained outside till the opera was over, when I saw her come out, the captain and first lieutenant walking with the party -- so that I could not speak with her I walked to a posada (that's an inn), and drank seven bottles of rosolio to keep myself quiet; then I went on board, and the second lieutenant, who was commanding officer, put me under arrest for being intoxicated. Peter Simple
She is as commanding as ever - slender and supple in a parade of gorgeous costumes while her feet pound out the complicated zapateados and her fingers alternately play the castanets or weave sinuously through air.
In answer to this petition, a decree immediately issued from the King's council, commanding a replevy of the arrests and seizures of which the petitioner complained. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
The legal responsibility for the charges announced this week may stop with the commanding officer named in the indictment, but the moral responsibility rests with those who chose to go to war.
It may be necessary to explain to the uninitiated reader that the terms "he" and "she" are indifferently used at sea, in reference to craft, but when the masculine pronoun is applied it is understood to refer more especially to the _commanding officer_ of the vessel; while the pronoun "she" refers to the _vessel herself_. Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War
But the criminal investigator's report has now been forwarded to commanding officers.
The crowd responded with applause suitably thunderous for a woman with such commanding stage presence.
In the World Wide Web arena, it is Netscape that holds the commanding lead thus far.
We walked on until we had a commanding view of the upper gulch and the crosses strung out in a long line.
China proved to be the stronger side at the semi-finals stage as the Chinese shuttlers took a commanding lead of 3-0 by defeating Hong Kong on Wednesday.
He was five foot ten, muscular and powerful, with a commanding personality. The Other Side of Me
One of the guards says in 10 months there, he never saw the commanding officer, that's General Karpinski, who was also in charge of this other prison.
They are critical to its prospects of commanding a majority after the next election. Times, Sunday Times
As a subordinate general , you have to cooperate fully with the commanding general.
They preach to their minions’ half-truths, falsities, and destructive examples that inflate egos, separate people of differing beliefs and life-styles, and they do so with a high and mighty commanding declaration that their mutterings are the truths that their congregation was heretofore denied. ...And God Said
She possessed a commanding stature, with a very quick, expressive face.
He had a great personality and a commanding presence.
The Mexican government apologized, but this wasn't good enough for the admiral commanding the local U.S. naval squadron.
Oliver is a Cavalier King Charles spaniel and in the 17th century the king himself issued a royal proclamation commanding that his favourite breed of dog should be allowed entry to absolutely any establishment in the country.
With a commanding view of the surrounding area, the monastery has many treasures.
The very posture of these classicized buildings - heavy, internalized, closed - conveys commanding messages about social obedience.
After the assassination of Julius Caesar and seizure of power by the Second Triumvirate, Brutus and Cassius were left commanding republican forces in the east.
Commanding from a half-track in the Six-Day War, the book discusses Gonen's temper, and the real-world experience of commanding an army versus a brigade from a bunker.
The choir of around a dozen were placed up in the gallery, with a commanding view over the rest of the chapel.
At K'lur's commanding gesture, Crom Hold guards formed up on Moran's flanks to prevent his escape and his walk assumed the nature of a march -- a march of doom. Dragon's Fire
The role of Salieri demands a commanding and authoritative presence and this was supplied in abundance by Mark Craddock.
On July 20, d'Elbée is elected commanding general to relace Cathelineau. Jacques Cathelineau
They were in front from the first end and had a commanding 21-8 lead after 15 ends before their opponents won three ends on the trot.
Certain vantages are more than the means of visual control and possession of the land viewed; they themselves become desirable for their commanding prospects.
This position would give them a commanding view of the main doors to the hangar as well as the rest of the airfield.
Robert LaFosse was the ringmaster who put these tykes through their paces with commanding smacks of a huge horsewhip.
The buddy patrol will not interfere with any police matter, unless instructed by a commanding officer.
Michael scratched his shaggy brown hair, embarrassed at the Secret Service agent's commanding, drawn out voice.
She will be back in uniform pursuing her ‘other life’ - as a commanding officer in the California Army National Guard.

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