Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power.
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Examples for "dominating "
Examples for "dominating "
1 By contrast, renewable energy is dominating new investment in power generation worldwide.
2 But dominating Wolf's message was the budgetary crisis escalated by political gridlock.
3 This theory ended up dominating the investigative work of the following days.
4 But despite dominating , particularly in the second half, Chelsea's chances remained limited.
5 Equally, the Shias had to be prevented from dominating the new state.
1 He bowed low in peremptory fashion and hurried off in a rush.
2 The officer was peremptory , but the bergantin was most innocent in appearance.
3 All these petitions were rejected in the most haughty and peremptory manner.
4 The Queen again bade me go to bed in a peremptory tone.
5 Please go and speak to Pearl, she added in a peremptory tone.
1 It rewards autocratic regimes while also strengthening institutions in more democratic ones.
2 The president has become more autocratic and thinks he has absolute power.
3 And we are surprised at the Custodians' autocratic handling of this matter.
4 There was an almost misanthropic vein in the autocratic land-owner and iron-master.
5 The answer was covered by the autocratic clang on the engine-room gong.
1 Charmingly bossy service from the lady of the house, and great value.
2 I am formulating my next question, when she declares: Am I bossy ?
3 At last she jumped up and ran off to see the bossy .
4 Unfortunately, her nearest neighbour dismisses her as too plain and too bossy .
5 Yes, but he didn't have to be so all-fired bossy about it.
1 He loved this place, a magisterial old house in the Garden District.
2 Her whole bearing consisted of volleys of abuse, closed by magisterial interrogations.
3 Ricky supposed that he had to envy that too, the magisterial appearance.
4 And didn't SHE put me down with one of her magisterial sentences?
5 His pals apparently still regard that brazen mantra as evidence of magisterial leadership.
1 We deal in matters too great for even those high - and - mighty Droods.
2 I know a rotten apple in the high - and - mighty O'Rourke family tree is unthinkable.
3 Lachlan McGillivray had always been too high - and - mighty for his own good.
4 We can't afford them high - and - mighty prices at Kroger's and the A&P like you.
5 Of course, the high - and - mighty Carlisles would call in the feds.
6 Lilith laughed, to see the high - and - mighty Authorities cringe and fawn at her colourless feet.
7 No wonder high - and - mighty Brioche didn't want to handle it.
8 But you're nothing more than a high - and - mighty camp lady.
9 I need to lay off with the high - and - mighty stance.
10 You don't get to play high - and - mighty with me anymore.
11 Coming here with all his high - and - mighty talk.
12 He wouldn't have informed that high - and - mighty Englishman.
13 Don't take that high - and - mighty tone with me!
14 But did those high - and - mighty women do anything?
15 You're the high - and - mighty Carolyn Carlisle.
16 Mister high-and-mighty's all testy tonight.'
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