Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power.
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By contrast, renewable energy is dominating new investment in power generation worldwide.
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But dominating Wolf's message was the budgetary crisis escalated by political gridlock.
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This theory ended up dominating the investigative work of the following days.
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But despite dominating, particularly in the second half, Chelsea's chances remained limited.
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Equally, the Shias had to be prevented from dominating the new state.
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He bowed low in peremptory fashion and hurried off in a rush.
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The officer was peremptory, but the bergantin was most innocent in appearance.
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All these petitions were rejected in the most haughty and peremptory manner.
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The Queen again bade me go to bed in a peremptory tone.
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Please go and speak to Pearl, she added in a peremptory tone.
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It rewards autocratic regimes while also strengthening institutions in more democratic ones.
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The president has become more autocratic and thinks he has absolute power.
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And we are surprised at the Custodians' autocratic handling of this matter.
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There was an almost misanthropic vein in the autocratic land-owner and iron-master.
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The answer was covered by the autocratic clang on the engine-room gong.
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He loved this place, a magisterial old house in the Garden District.
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Her whole bearing consisted of volleys of abuse, closed by magisterial interrogations.
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Ricky supposed that he had to envy that too, the magisterial appearance.
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And didn't SHE put me down with one of her magisterial sentences?
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His pals apparently still regard that brazen mantra as evidence of magisterial leadership.
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We deal in matters too great for even those high-and-mighty Droods.
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I know a rotten apple in the high-and-mighty O'Rourke family tree is unthinkable.
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Lachlan McGillivray had always been too high-and-mighty for his own good.
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We can't afford them high-and-mighty prices at Kroger's and the A&P like you.
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Of course, the high-and-mighty Carlisles would call in the feds.
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Charmingly bossy service from the lady of the house, and great value.
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I am formulating my next question, when she declares: Am I bossy?
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At last she jumped up and ran off to see the bossy.
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Unfortunately, her nearest neighbour dismisses her as too plain and too bossy.
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Yes, but he didn't have to be so all-fired bossy about it.
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And very nice lips they were, in spite of his bossy attitude.
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Juanita Haydock led the mutiny: Look here, Carol, don't be so bossy.
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For a poor helpless damsel in distress, she seemed a trifle bossy.
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Bento said he is not bossy and often consults players when making decisions.
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I believe her bossy manner was a cover for her insecurities.
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Look what her bossy nature got her. She started to sniffle.
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Lack of corporeal form had not made her any less bossy.
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We want the ladies who wear us to feel very bossy.
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The noise of petty, hurried traffic over the bossy paving stones was deafening.
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I wanted her to wash her hands, but didn't want to be bossy.
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Greeks have bristled at what they see as bossy behaviour by European leaders.
