Sentence examples for a commanding role from inspiring English sources

That will give California voters a commanding role in choosing candidates for both parties.

Robert Guiscard, Tancred's fourth son, assumed a commanding role in southern Italian affairs.

Imagine being responsible for missing the opportunity to play a commanding role in the smartphone revolution.

She does have a commanding role to play at the Democratic convention in Denver in August.

Microsoft denies that it plans to use its identification technology to gain a commanding role in Internet commerce.

He also termed Johnson "the most effective political activist of our time," with a commanding role vis-a-vis Congress that no other modern president has approached.

PROFESSOR HIRA believes a lack of confidence causes some women not to take a more commanding role.

It was during the short tenure of Ms. Black that Mr. Walcott took a more commanding role.

But when Eduard A. Shevardnadze, the Soviet Foreign Minister, came to Washington in April, the Americans found the Soviet military taking a more commanding role in the arms control negotiations and reopening issues that the United States thought were closed.

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Wagner scholars have argued that Schopenhauer's influence caused Wagner to assign a more commanding role to music in his later operas, including the latter half of the Ring cycle, which he had yet to compose.