Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power.
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Examples for "dominating"
Examples for "dominating"
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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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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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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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Lilith laughed, to see the high-and-mighty Authorities cringe and fawn at her colourless feet.
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No wonder high-and-mighty Brioche didn't want to handle it.
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But you're nothing more than a high-and-mighty camp lady.
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I need to lay off with the high-and-mighty stance.
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You don't get to play high-and-mighty with me anymore.
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Coming here with all his high-and-mighty talk.
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He wouldn't have informed that high-and-mighty Englishman.
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Don't take that high-and-mighty tone with me!
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But did those high-and-mighty women do anything?
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You're the high-and-mighty Carolyn Carlisle.
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Mister high-and-mighty's all testy tonight.'