Sentence examples for 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.

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

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

Last year, after a gap of 32 years, I returned to one of the commanding roles of dramatic literature - Abanazar in Aladdin.

Democrats and Republicans in Trenton described Mr. Christie as having abandoned the commanding political role he played earlier in his tenure, when by force of personality and public argument he cajoled Democratic lawmakers into enacting sweeping reforms.

When Senate investigator Daniel Jones Adam Driverr in a commanding lead role) meets a New York Times reporter (Matthew Rhys) to tip him off that the American government is misleading the public about its use of post-9/11 torture practices in the Middle East, director Scott Z. Burns invokes the genre's crown jewel, "All the President's Men".

Nicknamed "Chemical Ali," for his role commanding attacks in the 1980's against Kurds in northern Iraq, he was said by officials to be operating in southern Iraq.

While other American terror suspects have drawn greater publicity, Hammami exercises a more powerful role, commanding guerrilla forces in the field, organizing attacks and plotting strategy with Qaeda operatives, the officials said.