Sentence examples for was boss in from inspiring English sources

She was too shy to be on the panel but happily took the microphone to debate the question of who was "boss" in the partnership.

That showed the believers who was boss in the shopping-mall nation, but unlike the insecure dictators in China, Lee did not imprison, torture or murder them.

He is best known for his long involvement with Royal Dutch/Shell, where he was boss in the three years to 2001 but recently played a high profile role at the world summit on sustainable development in Johannesburg.

"If life at the office entailed an occasional dressing-down from one's superior, at least Dad could come home and wheel out the Lawn-Boy, Dandy Boy or Lazy Boy — brand-name mowers available in the 50's — and show the world who was boss in the yard".

SAGRA, Russia — When Sergei the Gypsy wanted to show who was boss in this tiny settlement on the edge of the Ural Mountains, he gathered a posse of armed men and drove down a narrow road through the night, illuminating the forest with his headlights.

Hours after the disaster, rumors shot across the capital city like the discharge of automatic weapons: The crash was the work of drug traffickers showing who was boss in this nation of 110 million souls.

Hoffmann's boss in the post-Vietnam years was Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld '54, his friend from Cap and Gown Club at Princeton.

Demonstrating that might be one way in which Ms Fernández can show who is boss in the presidential palace.

Physically and temperamentally, they are such opposites I'm curious to know who is boss in the studio.

ROMANO PRODI may have got off to a good start as the European Commission's boss in Brussels.

With none of the usual red-in-the-face parental haranguing, it reminds her who is boss in a syllable.