The word 'commanding' is correct and usable in written English
It means having or exerting authority or influence in a powerful and impressive way. Example: His commanding presence was felt in the boardroom.
Hirst is delighted with the commanding pose – intended ironically, but recalling old master paintings of popes and princes.
The claim by the Tories and their media supporters that a government commanding well over 50% of the votes would be some sort of democratic outrage is clearly absurd – if it pulled in the nationalists as well, it would also represent a much greater consensus across all parts of Britain.
In other words, the social web is a place of stark power law distributions – a tiny number of people commanding all of the attention, while the vast majority languish on the long tail, heard, seen and read by almost nobody.
5 Courtney Lawes 8/10 The lock was outstanding last week and was commanding again, particularly in the lineout.
Worryingly for Labour, the poll confirms that 30% of current SNP voters had backed Labour at the 2010 general election, with the SNP commanding significant levels of support among voters aged under 54, by a ratio of nearly 3 2 over Labour.
It's nothing like the early days of the revolution when neighborhood vigilantes would torment those they deemed immodest under a selective interpretation of the Islamic principle of "commanding the good and forbidding the evil".
Commanding your language is a key element in striking this defiant posture.
A third suspect, a 17-year-old boy from Cole Harbour who police initially considered a "person of interest", has been released from custody after it was determined there was not "enough information or evidence" to charge him in this case, said Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) commanding officer Brian Brennan.
This goes right against the core of one of the opposition's main arguments: That the government is commanding people to purchase something they may not want – health insurance – and this is a strike against their liberty.
His script follows a military intelligence officer charged with remotely commanding a top-secret drone operation to capture a group of terrorists from their safe-house in Nairobi.
Some of this is true; but then without Thatcherism Britain's economy would still be mired in state control, the commanding heights of its economy would be owned by the government and militant unions would be a power in the land.Because of the crisis, the pendulum is swinging dangerously away from the principles Mrs Thatcher espoused.
