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This is both an outstanding work of scholarship and a commanding visual document.

As his later wartime record would show, Jackson was extremely competent in the many skills required of a commanding general.

Early polling shows her with a commanding—if not outright prohibitive—lead among Democratic voters.

At one point the commanding general, General Throckmorton, was told that there was gunfire raking a street.

Scourges, he says, “are killers who act, momentarily, as agents freed from sacred order and its commanding truths.”

Her tall figure—she was taller than he by at least three inches—was beautiful in its commanding, yet not vulgar, self-possession.

Soon afterwards Cox, commanding the 29th Indian Brigade, came on board to make his salaam.

She did not appear conscious that she had done anything unusual in commanding his presence.

These may be said to be pure in tone, but not possessing the other requisites they fail in commanding attention.

The Marshal's arguments seemed about to prevail when news arrived that Bruyre, commanding the cavalry, was seriously wounded.