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What does commanding mean?
commanding
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Topics commanding topics
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Simple sentences
The commanding officer led his army into enemy territory.
Tom told his commanding officer that he wasn't willing to kill anyone.
When Tom crested the hill, he had a commanding view of the valley below.
I can't ignore my commanding officer's orders.
I'm still your commanding officer.
Tom was my commanding officer.
I'm not your commanding officer.
Movie subtitles
All of her commanding officers have bitten the bullet.
Being my commanding officer makes you feel uneasy, doesn't it?
Your commanding officers might be dead, Elizabeth, but you have always accomplished your missions.
Am I not personally commanding the force.. thatgoeswithSir Guy and Lady Marian to Kenworth Castle.. toguardthetax moneyheis bringing back, with my sword and my life?
They've got a military permit signed by the Commanding Officer in Philadelphia.
Are you implying that my commanding officer is corrupt?
To visit the commanding officer at Libby Prison.
Your commanding days are over, my lord.
I wish to speak with the commanding officer.
Where is the Commanding Officer. I was speaking with the Commanding Officer.
At 21, he was commanding a tank company.
But the commanding officer insisted on recommending me too.
Do you know how old our commanding general is?
Sergius Alexander Claims to have been commanding general of Russian Army and cousin to Czar.
Tireless in the defense of a crumbling empire was the Grand Duke Sergius Alexander, cousin to the Czar and Commanding General of the Russian Armies.
Unless one had seen him on the stage in his native England, or in New York, the unique and commanding texture of his vocal delivery would be a new experience for movie-goers at that time.
After 30 years of war, Sweden now has the commanding place in Europe.
As your commanding officer I welcome you to India.
General Headquarters, army of the Crimea. From His Excellency Field Marshall the Earl of Raglan, K.C.B. commanding.
Otherwise I shall consult the Commanding Officer.
Am I not personally commanding the force that goes with Sir Guy and Lady Marian to Kenworth Castle to guard the tax money he is bringing back, with my sword and my life?
This is what the commanding officer told me a dangerous group has been conspiring against Your Majesty.
Unless it's the custom at Fort Apache to provide transportation for incoming second lieutenants and leave a commanding officer to travel shanks' mare.
The new commanding officer.
No, the new commanding officer.
An officer, upon reporting to a new post must wait upon his commanding officer at the first possible moment. He will leave his card.
He will leave an additional card for each lady in the commanding officer's family.
He's only a King. The commanding authority of the country's army is also nothing.
Am I not personally commanding the force.. thatgoeswithSir Guy and Lady Marian to Kenworth Castle.
Blues will be issued to the chosen. You will parade in them on Friday before the commanding officer.
My orders are military, commanding me to duty by tomorrow noon. Others may disregard orders, not the Soviet.
You're so commanding!
Why, Col. Greenhill is Col. Greenhill, sir. -Commanding officer of the 15th.
I am the commanding officer of this camp which is Camp 16 along the great railroad which will soon connect Bangkok with Rangoon.
That man is the worst commanding officer I've ever come across.
When I said all officers must work naturally, I never meant you, the commanding officer.
Disobeyed an order of my commanding officer.
This is commanding officer Wollenberg.
You won't serve as a commanding officer though.
If a commanding officer lacks confidence, what can we expect of his men?
It will be just what you deserve, showing such little loyalty to your commanding officer.
News and current affairs
Officials' preoccupation with commanding respect and not losing face leads them to focus almost exclusively on China's achievements.
Petraeus, after all, had been General Petraeus, a four-star general who had spent his life in the military, commanding the US missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
There was, Friedman believed, something intrinsically bad about government commanding and ordering people about -- even if the government did know what it was doing.
In either case, there is a commanding case for its serious consideration.
The Muslim Brotherhood, by contrast, was systematically changing the constitution and taking control of the commanding heights of the state in order to make it impossible for its rule to be challenged.
Berlusconi has been in power for eight of those years, though, as Giuliano Ferrara, the editor of Il Foglio, puts it, the popular perception is that, given his commanding personality, he has ruled the whole time.
Annan was alerted four months before Hutu activists began their mass killings by a fax message from Romeo Dallaire, the Canadian general commanding UN forces in Rwanda.
Berkeley - While the new Obama administration is commanding global attention, America's future may be written - as so many times before - in and by its largest state.
Now, it is a migration crisis - one that is unlikely to be resolved in the foreseeable future - that is commanding the European Union's attention.
From Alexander Pushkin's poems to Leo Tolstoy's novels, French influence pervades the commanding heights of Russian culture.
Iran then helped broker a ceasefire that was highly favorable to Maliki, and cemented his commanding position inside the Iraqi coalition government.
Former spies now sit atop the commanding heights of Russia's energy-centric economy, but their role is not all that different from what it was in Soviet days.
NATO's war with the Taliban in Afghanistan is going badly, so much so that the commanding US general was sacked this month.
There are many reasons for this, ranging from the rather debilitated state of multilateral governance to the urgency of domestic issues currently commanding national policymakers' attention.
KATMANDU - Confounding everyone except themselves, Nepal's hard-line Maoists have taken a commanding role following the country's landmark elections.
Indeed, China's pandering to dictators in its quest for resources contradicts its long-term interest in being acknowledged as a benign and legitimate power and commanding the international respect that it craves.
Though the UN has been working on disarmament since 1946, two treaties negotiated under UN auspices are now commanding the world's attention.
After all, he is personally popular, and his Democratic Party holds commanding majorities in both houses of Congress.