Commanding
in sentence
204 examples of Commanding in a sentence
In either case, there is a
commanding
case for its serious consideration.
California DyingBerkeley – While the new Obama administration is
commanding
global attention, America’s future may be written – as so many times before – in and by its largest state.
For 45 years, bureaucrats had occupied its
commanding
heights, stifling enterprise under a straitjacket of regulations and licenses, erecting protectionist barriers against foreign trade and investment in the name of self-reliance, subsidizing an unproductive public sector, and struggling to redistribute the country’s poverty.
Baker is a consultant for the two companies at the
commanding
heights of the Russian economy, Gazprom and Rosneft.
That election, however, was won by Tymoshenko, who has parlayed her return to power into a
commanding
lead in the polls for the coming presidential election.
Captain Ernest Medina, his
commanding
officer, ordered him to burn the village down and pollute its wells, but there is no clear evidence that the order included killing non-combatants – and of course if such an order were issued, it should not have been obeyed.
The Pyongyang PurgeTOKYO – During the Cold War, the term “Kremlinology” referred to efforts to understand what was taking place at the
commanding
heights of the Soviet Union – indeed, behind the entire Iron Curtain.
As for Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should take advantage of his
commanding
majority in the Diet, won in October’s snap general election, to implement the third “arrow” of Abenomics: pro-growth structural reforms.
The third development occurred in Japan, where the newly-elected Liberal Democratic government of Shinzo Abe,
commanding
a two-thirds parliamentary majority, is pressing the Bank of Japan to stimulate growth – a “discussion” that looks set to evolve into something much more assertive.
But, beginning in the 1980s, fiscal hawks started taking over both the economics discipline and most countries’
commanding
heights of economic policymaking.
But this prospect arouses considerable mistrust in Algeria, where many blame market liberalization for the rise of crony capitalism, with the
commanding
heights of the country’s economy in the hands of a few oligarchs.
Moreover, even a simple customs union with the EU – the option that has so far come closest to
commanding
a parliamentary majority – doesn’t resolve the Brexit trilemma.
I pleaded with their
commanding
officer to stop.
Only regional parties – the Scottish National Party, Plaid Cymru in Wales, and the Democratic Unionists in Northern Ireland – are
commanding
any credibility.
With innovation in digital payments barreling ahead, these questions are now
commanding
the attention of the World Economic Forum and other international institutions.
Businesses and educators alike embraced the new orthodoxy, which by the 1970s had come to dominate the
commanding
heights of the global economy.
But Biden’s
commanding
lead over US President Donald Trump in opinion polls suggests that the Democrats may have found a winning formula.
True, by hook and by crook, the GOP has forged a
commanding
conservative majority on the court, and have demonstrated that they will not behave in good faith.
Rather than perform his duties as expected, the apprentice decides to use the sorcerer’s magic,
commanding
a broom to carry buckets of water to fill a cauldron.
Even though opinion polls give Johnson’s pro-Brexit Conservatives a
commanding
lead as the campaign opens, they also indicate that a clear majority of British voters – larger than the one that backed “Leave” in the 2016 referendum – actually favors remaining in the EU.
In China, President Xi Jinping has effectively declared victory over the virus, while state media have extolled him for
commanding
the “people’s war” against COVID-19.
Former Vice President Joe Biden – written off by most observers until his triumph in South Carolina last month and victories in other Southern states turned the race around – now has such a
commanding
lead in delegates over his rival, US Senator Bernie Sanders, that it’s virtually impossible for Sanders to overtake him.
Levin jumped up and in a
commanding
whisper told her to leave the room.
'Do you seek the honours of this world,' he said to them, 'all social advantages, the pleasure of
commanding
men, that of defying the laws and of being insolent to all men with impunity?
But Saint Paul was paid with the pleasure of commanding, of speaking, of hearing himself spoken of ...'Ah!
"And congress a halter," continued the
commanding
officer commencing anew on a fresh supply of the cakes.
The videttes and patrols now came pouring in, each making in succession his hasty report to the
commanding
officer, who gave his orders coolly, and with a promptitude that made obedience certain.
The doctor himself seemed to view the arrangement with great satisfaction, as he deliberately raised his eyes from his book to order the boy to convey the note to his
commanding
officer, and then dropping them quietly on the page he continued his occupation.
"Ah! poor George, it is a narrow chance; but" - he was interrupted by a messenger requiring the presence of the
commanding
officer in the field.
"Captain Lawton," said the orderly of his troop, riding to the side of his
commanding
officer, "we are now passing the house of the peddler spy; is it your pleasure that we burn it?"
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