Sentence examples for offers a commanding view from inspiring English sources

And it offers a commanding view of the dam below.

The dining room offers a commanding view of the Hudson (800-247-5047 foreservationsns).

Crisscrossed by bike trails and hiking paths, the park is topped by a statue of the Virgin Mary that offers a commanding view of the city.

The collection of ethnographic art — Indonesian shadow puppets, stone Etruscan sarcophagi, Tibetan Buddhist tablets — is impressive, but the museum's marquee attraction is the 11th-century tower, which offers a commanding view of the sea, golden beaches, sublime hills, orange-tile roofs and distant mountains.

"The last thing people in Harlem need is a lot of make-nice froth and bubble," Mr. Sanders said recently, sitting at a conference table in Mr. Clinton's personal penthouse office, which offers a commanding view of the low-slung buildings of Harlem and Central Park and the skyscrapers of Midtown.

The Transamérica Salvador, Rua Monte Conselho 505 in Rio Vermelho, 55-711) 330-2233, fax 55-711) 330-2200, www.transamerica.com.br, offers a commanding view of the city and the sea from its verdant hilltop location, but also seems a bit removed from the action.

The summit at Hartmannswillerkopf offered a commanding view of the Rhine valley and was deemed to be strategically valuable, hence the bitter fighting in the area.

The best public viewing place is the Liberty Street pedestrian bridge, where large windows offer a commanding view of the site.

Atop the building is a semicircular penthouse called London's Living Room, walled with windows that offer a commanding view of the city below.

"It's like Disneyland now," Mr. Glover, 52, said one Sunday afternoon in his wife's 13th-floor apartment in a housing project on 135th Street, where the living room and bedroom windows offer a commanding view of the East River and the Bronx.

Rising above the city's rooftops to offer a commanding harbor view, the house was built in 1827; the third owner, who moved in 1834, was Hans Haagensen, who came to St. Thomas with a banking contract from the Danish royal family.