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Example sentences for: commanding

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The Port Authority's on-site commanding police officer was standing in the concourse when a fireball erupted out of elevator shafts and exploded onto the mall concourse, causing him to dive for cover.
North of Andratx, the coastal road C-710 reaches the first of a succession of miradors, lookout points with a commanding prospect of the entire coast.
At 9:00, the PAPD commanding officer of the WTC ordered an evacuation of all civilians in the World Trade Center complex, because of the magnitude of the calamity in the North Tower.
None of the reporting mentions it, but this sort of development is sadly familiar--it was reported after the fact that the Marines' commanding officer in Beirut in 1983 had expressed grave concern to his superiors about the vulnerability of his troops to hostile forces operating in the area.
Thus a new serious biography has a commanding, basic importance.