Sentence examples for commanding the debate from inspiring English sources

When Mr. Romney delivered the attack against Mr. Gingrich that evening, Mr. Gingrich was left with no substantive response, a killer blow that helped keep Mr. Gingrich from commanding the debate stage as he had in South Carolina.

We stipulate that he's quick-witted, fluent, and commanding in the debates.

Ms. Huffington, 53, a sharp-tongued campaign provocateur who clashed repeatedly with Mr. Schwarzenegger in last week's televised debate, commanded the support of only about 3percentt of California voters, according to recent polls.

That's the command that the debate police always manage to get across.

The criticism from the media, echoed by a shift in the polls, forced Mr. Gore into a box and allowed Mr. Bush to take command of the debate and the race.

"Schumer and McCain could not seem much more stylistically different, but the two have a common ability to command the spotlight and shape debates inside the Capitol, something that becomes exponentially more powerful if they are working on the same side". We have one adult student (23 yrs) tonight.

While child nutrition may not command the megaphone like the tax debate, it should.

In too many versions, it is a secret England not because its people are genuinely too oppressed to speak, but because they prefer to sit muttering over their glasses: sharing "unspeakable" ideas that are neither remotely adequate to the issues they pretend to address nor capable of commanding public debate.

Here was a man with a brilliant command of the debating- chamber rapier.

That might have been the end of his candidacy if not for two factors: his ability to take command of the debates, often by assailing the press, and his relationship with Sheldon Adelson, a billionaire casino magnate who pumped $20 million into a "super PAC" backing Mr. Gingrich.

Hardee commanded the left.