Commanding
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Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer.
Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence.
Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position.
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Commanding Quotations
What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.
Arnold Palmer
I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
Daniel Boone
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Thomas Carlyle
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
Carl Sandburg
When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.
Adelbert von Chamisso
I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, FA Crusaders.
James Stockdale
The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.
Paul Ricoeur
As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence.
John Strachan
You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.
Malcolm Wallop
I don't like things like little sandals that look fragile. I like to look strong and commanding.
Zoe Saldana
Commanding Translations
commanding in German is befehlend, kommandierend
commanding in Spanish is imponente
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