I guessed that my combination might cost me first place in the short program at the Olympics, but it would be irrelevant so long as I dominated figures and the long program.
Even Chancellor Angela Merkel, a dominating figure on the European stage, is not immune to the political fallout.
A dominating figure, she swore to her own sons and daughters that "no child of mine will ever rule me".
The White House will have no dominating figure to ride herd day to day now that Tom Daschle is out of the picture.
John Huston is a dominating figure in this memoir: tough, daring, macho, bullying, charismatic, colossally egotistical – a drinker and a gambler and a philanderer.
January 21 , 1940Columbus, Ohio Jack Nicklaus, in full Jack William Nicklaus, byname the Golden Bear (born January 21 , 1940 Columbus, Ohio, U.S ., American professional golfer, a dominating figure in world golf from the 1960s to the '80s.
He was, in fact, a formidable attacking midfielder, prominent in two World Cups in the 1980s, initially a centre forward but, for most of his international career, a dominating figure in every sense, in central midfield.
The dominating figure in the kingdom of the Almohads, however, was the philosopher Averroës (Ibn Rushd, died 1198), court physician of the Amazigh (Berber) kings in Marrākush (Marrakech) and famous as the great Arab commentator on Aristotle.
Mr Berisha, one of the dominating figure of Albanian politics, was also president from 1992 to 1997.The election campaign was judged by many to have been the best for many years.
Even Puskás, a dominating figure himself, the captain and star of the dazzling Hungary team of the early 1950s, had to compromise and found his modus vivendi with Di Stéfano when, level on goals with him in the last league match of a Spanish season, he passed to let Di Stéfano score, rather than score himself.
"There Will Be Blood" (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007): When the movie came out, the principal complaints against it were that the dominating figure of the oil entrepreneur Daniel Plainview Daniell Day-Lewis) doesn't develop as a character; that the movie is structurally ungainly; that its political and social allegories are tendentious; and that the last scene is sheer insanity.
