Sentence examples for with commanding from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, General Philippe Pétain was entrusted with commanding the defense of Verdun.

Bloodied in Thomas Müller's case following a clash of heads with commanding Ghana defender John Boye.

Yet Mr. Bronfman, who had fewer than five weeks to learn it, played with commanding virtuosity.

SEVENTH AVENUE at 57th Street is one of those power intersections, with commanding architecture on three corners.

Mr. Garland sang with commanding intensity in three epic songs by Gabriela Lena Frank, settings of Spanish poems by Pablo Antonio Cuadra.

Idiosyncratic in her classical silhouette but using her torso and arms with commanding flourish, she takes over the stage with bird-of-paradise allure.

Among its roughly 2,000 residences, the village has cottages, bungalows and smaller Victorians with granny porches packed together along narrow streets at its heart, and larger Gothic and Victorian homes built into hillsides with commanding water views.

The situation on the ground had by then already deteriorated; the S.D.F. should have been mobilized much earlier into the "war zone" of the Fukushima nuclear meltdown and been charged with commanding water-injection operations.

Among men ages 25 to 54, the Arbitron ratings from March show WFAN with commanding leads over ESPN New York in the morning and afternoon drive times and in the 10 a.m.-to-3 p.m. slot.

The stage was bare, reminiscent of a Samuel Beckett play, with commanding presences waiting awkwardly on spots visibly marked in blue tape - the Oscar-ish aspirations broke down long ago.

9 50 p.m. Solange: Unlike her big sister, Solange Knowles isn't solely preoccupied with commanding the attention of the masses.