The phrase "a commanding force in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something that has significant influence or power in a particular area or field.
Example: "The organization has become a commanding force in the renewable energy sector, driving innovation and policy changes."
Alternatives: "a dominant player in" or "a leading authority in".
Though not as well known to the record-buying public as other jazz artists, she has been a commanding force on New York's music scene in settings ranging from duos and trios to big bands and full orchestras.
Five perimeter players retur, but the 6-6 center Summer Erb must replace Chasity Melvin as a commanding force inside.
The organization Swairjo represents is a secular, Marxist group that was once a commanding political force in the Palestinian Liberation Organization PLOO).
"With our country's defense in his hands, we have become a safer America at home, and a more commanding force abroad.
But the debate in the cavernous beachfront convention hall was as boisterous as in the days before he refined the party organization, rid it of its socialist orthodoxy, calmed the customary feuding and made it a unified and commanding political force in Britain.
But other nations' leaders harm their citizens and we, as Americans, should not be the major commanding force to push for regime change in these often-hostile nations.
It eventually saw deployment to Kosovo as a commanding element in Kosovo Force, and units of the division also deployed to locations such as Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and Afghanistan as a part of Operation Enduring Freedom, also Iraq as a part of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn.
Mr. Asadi also suggested that the brigade's military activities would be wholly independent of American plans, a stance that runs counter to Pentagon preferences for coordinating, if not commanding, forces taking part in wars the United States fights.
There are not many instances in modern history of a soldier who, having once held a commanding position in the armed forces of his native land, is able to reinvent himself as a scholar in another country.
