Dominated Sentence Examples
Maybe Alex wanted to be in control because he had been dominated all his life.
I don't want to be completely dominated.
Our right flank was posted on a rather steep incline which dominated the French position.
A gray brick house dominated the landscape, its ranch style sprawling in a U shape with a garage on one end.
Aurillac stands on the right bank of the Jordanne, and is dominated from the north-west by the Roc Castanet, crowned by the castle of St Etienne, the keep of which dates from the 11th century.
Quinn was the first to vocalize what dominated all our minds like a walk up the gallows steps.
Montefrio is largely Moorish in character, and dominated by a Moorish castle.
For nearly twenty years he dominated the government of Pennsylvania, and also played a very prominent part in national affairs.
So completely had the state dominated the church that religious persecutions had become state persecutions, and Bonner was acting as an ecclesiastical sheriff in the most refractory district of the realm.
They played everything from cards to Clue, and the conversation was dominated by childhood memories shared between Alex and Katie.
AdvertisementIts small principalities were entirely dominated by the great Powers, whose weakness or acquiescence alone enabled them to rise above dependence or vassalage.
He may, in fact, be called the father of modern pathology, for his view, that every animal is constituted by a sum of vital units, each of which manifests the characteristics of life, has almost uniformly dominated the theory of disease.since the middle of the 59th century, when it was enunciated.
During the next thirty years Clay's conservative influence dominated the politics of the state.'
I am also a historian with a full understanding of how poverty, disease, ignorance, famine, and war have dominated life on this planet.
Davidsohn's Geschichte der Stadt Florenz (Berlin, 1896); P. Villari's Savonarola (English ed., London, 1896) is invaluable for the period during which the friar's personality dominated Florence, and his Machiavelli (English ed., London, 1892) must be also consulted, especially for the development of political theories.
AdvertisementParis was dominated at that time by the party of the "butchers," or Cabochiens, which had been organized and armed by the count of Saint-Pol, brother-in-law of John the Fearless.
Thence four marches, generally over a stony plateau dominated by bare, sterile mountains, brought them to Sana, where they received a cordial welcome from the imam, el Mandi Abbas.
The kingdom of Buganda especially dominated the lands of Victoria Nyanza in the r9th century.
The Tubingen school founded by Baur dominated the theological criticism of the New Testament during a great part of the 19th century and it still finds some support.
Today, this dry raised fan of material supports a rich heath vegetation dominated by bell heather which is home to the Red Grouse.
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Towards the close of the 9th century Arabia was disturbed by the rise of a new movement which during the next hundred years dominated the peninsula, and at its close left it shattered never to be united again.
Lubeck and Hamburg, however, dominated the German trade in the ports of the east coast, notably in Lynn and Boston, while they were strong in the organized trading settlements at York, Hull, Ipswich, Norwich, Yarmouth and Bristol.
In 1874 Welles published Lincoln and Seward, in which he refutes the charge that Seward dominated the Administration during the Civil War.
From that time he was under the influence of two personages, who dominated him completely for the remainder of his life - Diane de Poitiers, his mistress, and Anne de Montmorency, his mentor.
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Whatever the number of these, he had only two titular mistresses - at the beginning of the reign Francoise de Chateaubriant, and from about 1526 to his death Anne de Pisseleu, whom he created duchesse d'Etampes and who entirely dominated him.
This superstition dominated Scotland.
The town is very picturesque, with its steep and narrow streets, and its one surviving gateway, while it is dominated on the west by the ruined castle of Stein, formerly a stronghold of the Habsburgs, but destroyed in 1415 and again in 1712.
The time was come for Philip to assert himself in Greece, and the Phocians, who still dominated Delphi and held Thermopylae, could furnish a pretext to the champion of Pan-Hellenism and Apollo.
Caravaca is dominated by the medieval castle of Santa Cruz, and contains several convents and a fine parish church, with a miraculous cross celebrated for its healing power, in honour of which a yearly festival is held on the 3rd of May.
Realizing his folly he abdicated on the 6th of December 1796, and retired to Sardinia, That princess, in spite of her French origin, resisted the attempts of France, then dominated by Cardinal Richelieu, to govern Savoy, but her quarrels with her brothers-in-law led to civil war, in which the latter obtained the help of Spain, and Christina that of France.
The Arctic Sea presents a great contrast between the salinity of the surface of the ice-free Norwegian Sea with 35 to 35.4 and that of the Central Polar Basin, which is dominated by river water and melted ice, and has a salinity less than 25 per mille in most parts.
As the Arctic Basin is shut off from the North Atlantic by ridges rising to within 300 fathoms of the surface and from the Pacific by the shallow shelf of the Bering Sea, and as the ice-laden East Greenland and Labrador currents consist of fresh surface water which cannot appreciably influence the underlying mass, the Arctic region has no practical effect upon the bottom temperature of the three great oceans, which is entirely dominated by the influence of the Antarctic. The existence of deep-lying and extensive rises or ridges in high southern latitudes has been indicated by the deep-sea temperature observations of Antarctic expeditions.
Its inherent defect - that the products of combustion were invariably heavier than the original substance instead of less as the theory demanded - was ignored, and until late in the 18th century it dominated chemical thought.
Chesle, 1 dominated the constitutional history of Russia in the 10th century and the early years of the 20th.
It dominated the intellectual and profoundly affected the social interests of western Europe.
Religious issues became more and more dominated by purely political and dynastic ambitions, and the whole situation was constantly affected by the policy of Philip II.
It is a rolling highland dominated by long, wooded hill-ridges, remarkably even-topped in general elevation, intersected and broken by deep valleys.
The hegemony of the Aztecs, who dominated the other tribes from the central valley of Mexico, was oppressive.
The tribal system of family organization, universal in America, dominated the dwelling.
Dominated by the rule of blood relationship, the Indians regulated all co-operative activities on this basis.
The atmosphere of the whole town is, indeed, dominated by the memory of Goethe and Schiller, whose bronze statues, by Rietschel, grouped on one pedestal (unveiled in 1857) stand in front of the theatre.
The physical geography of New Zealand is closely connected with its geological structure, and is dominated by two intersecting lines of mountains and earth movements.
He and the constable Muzio Attendolo Sforza completely dominated her, and the turbulent barons wished to provide her with a husband who would be strong enough to break her favourites yet not make himself king.
The latter found, however, that he had lost all influence with the queen, who was completely dominated by her new lover Giovanni (Sergianni) Caracciolo.
He was an intelligent and honest man, although he seems to have profited by the sale of the possessions of the clergy, but he had a stubborn, unyielding temperament, was incapable of making concessions, and was dominated by Madame Roland, who imparted to him her hatred of Danton and the Montagnards.
Wherever its operations can be traced, they are dominated by the conviction that all stirrings of independence must be repressed, and any advance beyond the stage of immaturity and nonage checked at the outset.
It is finely situated on a hill above the Lago Fucino, and is dominated by a square castle, with round towers at the angles, erected in its present form in 1450.
In fact, the region is dominated by three ranges of nearly equal altitude, all lifting many of their peaks above the snow-line.
It is possible that this is, in part, due to the artistic blight of the Calvinism which so long dominated the town.
In all his ideas he was dominated by an intense belief in the future and influence of the Englishspeaking people, in their democratic government and alliance for the purpose of peace and the abolition of war, and in the progress of education on unsectarian lines.
The happiness or satisfaction of the individual was the end which dominated this scepticism as well as the contemporary systems of Stoicism and Epicureanism, and all three philosophies place it in tranquillity or self-centred indifference.
The nobles who dominated the diet did nothing to remove the most crying evil of the country - the miserable state of the peasants, who had been freed from personal serfdom by Napoleon in 1807, but were being steadily driven from their holdings by the landlords.
Gnosticism is to a great extent dominated by the idea that it is above all and in the highest degree important for the Gnostic's soul to be enabled to find its way back through the lower worlds and spheres of heaven ruled by the Seven to the kingdom of light of the supreme deity of heaven.
The attitude of Gnosticism to the Old Testament and to the creator-god proclaimed in it had its deeper roots, as we have already seen, in the dualism by which it was dominated.
The conception of a resurrection of the body, of a further existence for the body after death, was unattainable by almost all of the Gnostics, with the possible exception of a few Gnostic sects dominated by Judaeo-Christian tendencies.
The town, which occupies an important strategic position in the plain dominated by the escarpments of Mount Tessala, has barrack accommodation for 600o troops, and is the headquarters of the ter regiment etranger, one of the two regiments known as the Foreign Legion.
His exegesis, which was dominated by his polemics against the Jews, is characterized by a fidelity to the literal sense, the comparison with the Hebrew text, the direct use of Jewish commentators, a very independent attitude towards traditional interpretations, and a remarkable historical and critical sense.
It is dominated by the ducal palace erected by Luciano da Laurana, a Dalmatian architect, in 1460-82, for Federigo Montefeltro, and regarded by the contemporaries of the founder as the ideal of a princely residence.
Two main considerations dominated the fortunes of Hanover during the period of the Napoleonic wars, the jealousy felt by Prussia at the increasing strength and prestige of the electorate, and its position as a vulnerable outpost of Great Britain.
All derivative monads, he allowed, are accompanied by bodies, which, however, are composed of other monads dominated by a central monad.
He created it and preached it; he organized it, dominated it, and constantly supervised it.
The beginning of his reign was not unpromising; but all too soon that nepotism began which attained its height under this Spanish pope, and dominated his whole pontificate.
Though the relations with France dominated the papal policy during the revolutionary period, the affairs of Germany received no small share of attention.
Never was man more free than Latimer from the taint of fanaticism or less dominated by " vainglory," but the motives which now inspired his courage not only placed him beyond the influence of fear, but enabled him to taste in dying an ineffable thrill of victorious achievement.
Before the Seven Years' War the Quakers dominated the government, but from that time until the failure of the Whisky Insurrection (17g4) the more belligerent Scotch-Irish (mostly Presbyterians) were usually in the ascendancy, the reasons being the growing numerical strength of the Scotch-Irish and the increasing dissatisfaction with Quaker neglect of means of defending the province.
Commercial interests dominated everything else, and while these stimulated a municipal life not without vigour, civil discipline and loyalty were but feebly felt.
Personally a devout Catholic and opposed in principle to the spread of sectarianism in Poland, Sigismund was nevertheless too wise and just to permit the persecution of non-Catholics;' and in Lithuania, where a fanatical Catholic minority of magnates dominated the senate, he resolutely upheld the rights of his Orthodox subjects.
Oman is a mountainous district dominated by a range called Jebel Akhdar (or the Green Mountain), which is I.o,000 ft.
The States of Holland under the leadership of Johan van Oldenbarneveldt, took up an attitude of resolute hostility to him, and the States of Holland dominated the States-General.
His life was entirely dominated by the religious motive.
Stuart, all of whom became general officers in i Civil War can fail to notice how the influence of Lee dominated the Civil War.
Several roads to India have been developed through Baluchistan, but they are all dominated from Kandahar.
In the north-east, between the Lot and its tributary the Truyere, lies the lonely pastoral plateau of the Viadene, dominated by the volcanic mountains of Aubrac, which form the north-eastern limit of the department and include its highest summit (4760 ft.).
From about 81 9 to 1082 Carcassonne formed a separate countship, and from the latter date till 1247 a viscountship. Towards the end of the 11th century the viscounts of Carcassonne assumed the style of viscounts of Beziers, which town and its lords they had dominated since the fall of the Carolingian empire.
The native quarter, called Tijit, occupies the eastern slopes of the ravine and the level ground above, and is dominated by the kubbas of two marabouts.
South of the Ibos live the Aros, a tribe of relatively great intelligence, who dominated many of the surrounding tribes and possessed an oracle or ju-ju of reputed great power.
And soon after, under Rameses II., mere mechanical copying, hard lifeless routine of stone-cutting, regardless of truth and of nature, dominated the whole.
The work of Valdemar was completed and consolidated by his illustrious daughter Margaret (1 375 - 1 4 12), whose crowning achievement was the Union of Kalmar (1397), whereby she sought to combine the three northern kingdoms The Union f o into a single state dominated by Denmark.
It was during this war that a strong Danish fleet dominated the Baltic for the first time since the age of the Valdemars.
While the Swedish peasants were well represented in the Swedish Riksdag, whose proceedings they sometimes dominated, the Danish peasantry had no political rights or privileges whatever.
Throughout his pontificate Innocent was completely dominated by his sister-in-law, Donna Olimpia Maidalchini, a woman of masculine spirit.
The country was governed by fifty-six members of the Estate and by the dreaded commission of the General Assembly, for now the kirk dominated Scotland, denying even the right of petition to the lieges.
These remarkable letters were published in Die Horen, a new journal, founded in 1794, which was the immediate occasion for that intimate friendship with Goethe which dominated the remainder of Schiller's life.
Soimonov himself was killed, and the disciplined confidence and steady volleys of the defenders dominated the chaotic élan of the Russians.
Lavoisier's name is indissolubly associated with the overthrow of the phlogistic doctrine that had dominated the development of chemistry for over a century, and with the establishment of the foundations upon which the modern science reposes.
The city, which is dominated on the west by the two citadels of Petersbergand Cyriaxburg, is irregularly built, the only feature in its plan, or want of plan, being the Friedrich Wilhelmsplatz, a broad open space of irregular shape abutting on the Petersberg.
It is a combined system of moral and political philosophy, or a sociology dominated by the idea of the state.
He entered upon his university studies with zeal, but his own education in Frankfort had not been the best preparation for the scholastic methods which still dominated the German universities; of his professors, only Gellert seems to have won his interest, and that interest was soon exhausted.
On the 29th of March Gustavus, in order to save the crown for his son, voluntarily abdicated; but on the 10th of May the estates, dominated by the army, declared that not merely Gustavus but his whole family had forfeited the throne.
The right bank of the Moselle is bordered for some distance by pleasant promenades, and an extensive park surrounds the ruins of an old stronghold which dominated the Grande Ville from an eminence on the east.
The theory of valency thus founded has dominated the subsequent development of chemical doctrine, and forms the groundwork upon which the fabric of modern structural chemistry reposes.
Albemarle county was then in the frontier wilderness of the Blue Ridge, and was very different, socially, from the lowland counties where 'a few broad-acred families dominated an open-handed, somewhat luxurious and assertive aristocracy.
It is dominated by a large and picturesque Moorish castle.
Ultimately the Dravidians were driven back into the southern tableland, and the great plains of Hindustan were occupied by the Aryans, who dominated the history of India for many centuries thereafter.
In especial, they dominated over the British settlement of Bombay on the western coast, which was the last of the three presidencies to feel the lust of territorial ambition.
Between the Val Lagarina and the Vallarsa and along the Val Terragnolo the Italian lines formed a dangerously exposed salient, running down from the high slopes and completely dominated by the Austrian guns on Monte Biaena, Monte Ghello, Monte Finonchio and the Folgaria plateau.
He revived the name Ch'ao-Hsien, changed the capital from Song-do to Seoul, organized an administrative system, which with some modifications continued till 1895, and exists partially still, carried out vigorous reforms, disestablished Buddhism, made merit in Chinese literary examinations the basis of appointment to office, made Confucianism the state religion, abolished human sacrifices and the burying of old men alive, and introduced that Confucian system of education, polity, and social order which has dominated Korea for five centuries.
More probably it reflects the fact that Epicurus was, according to tradition through Nausiphanes, on the whole dominated by the influences that produced Pyrrhonism.
At this time it was mainly dominated by several great families, among them the Adelardi.
At first it was persecuted by the state, then established by it, and finally dominated over it; so its teaching was at first alien to philosophy and despised by it, next was accepted by it and given form and rights through it, and finally became queen of the sciences as theology and ruled over the whole world of human knowledge.
Despite the weakness of the Sleme - Mrzli line, both dominated and enfiladed, despite the practical certainty that it could not be maintained against a resolute offensive in force, the enemy attack found a large number of Italian guns, including many of medium calibre, stationed well in advance of the Pleca - Selisce line.
Petit Bayonne lies between the right bank of the Nive and the Adour; Saint Esprit, dominated by a citadel which is one of the finest works of Vauban, occupies the right bank of the Adour.
The town is dominated by the medieval castle (1655 ft.), built by Cardinal Albornoz (1367) and added to by Popes Pius II.
But these men were not all busy over the problem of how many angels could stand on a needle-point; nor were they all dominated by the religious spirit of faith or intellectual cowardice.
This dominated the ancient Forest of Morf.
This assumption applies indeed in a broad sense to that period which was dominated by intolerant theology and deprived of positive knowledge.
The study of Vitruvius gave strong support to that pseudo-classic manner which, when it had reached its final point in Palladio's work, overspread the whole of Europe and dominated taste during two centuries.
It is dominated by the Schlossberg (1307 ft.), on which is situated the ruins of an old.
In its lowest portions just behind the front ranges are the natural "parks" - great plateaus basined by superb enclosing ranges; and to the west of these, and between them, and covering the remainder of the state east of the plateau region, is an entanglement of mountains, tier above tier, running from north to south, buttressed laterally with splendid spurs, dominated by scores of magnificent peaks, cut by river valleys, and divided by mesas and plateaus.
It contains a number of fine summits dominated by Pike's Peak (14,108 ft.).
The Sassanid Empire, indeed, is completely dominated by this formalism and ritualism; but the earlier testimony of Darius in his inscriptions and the statements in Herodotus enable us still to recognize the original healthy life of a religion capable of awakening the enthusiastic devotion of the inner man.
The only really brutal tyrants were Darius II., who was completely dominated by his bloodthirsty wife Parysatis, and Artaxerxes III.
His intelligence was mediocre, his character weak, and he allowed himself to be dominated by his wife, Anne of Brittany, and his favourite the Cardinal d'Amboise.
Meanwhile the marquis de Fenelon had introduced his nephew into the devout section of the court, dominated by Mme de Maintenon.
One particular tribe (the Kalmats), who left their name on the Makran coast and subsequently dominated Bela and Sind, west of the Indus, for a considerable period, exhibit great power of artistic design in their sepulchral monuments.
Nevertheless, in some departments of theory, too, and notably in ethics and jurisprudence, Stoicism has dominated the thought of after ages to a degree not easy to exaggerate.
From the astronomers the Stoics borrowed their picture of the universe - a plenum in the form of a series of layers or concentric rings, first the elements, then the planetary and stellar spheres, massed round the earth as centre - a picture which dominated the imagination of men from the days of Eudoxus down to those of Dante or even Copernicus.
The site of the city is very hilly and is completely dominated by a line of high rocky elevations that run like a crescent-formed background from N.E.
The study of language as it existed in Varro's day was thoroughly dominated by Stoic influences.
It is dominated by high mountains, gashed by superb canyons of rivers, scarred with dry gullies and washes, the beds of intermittent streams, varied with great shallow basins, sunken deserts, dreary levels, bold buttes, picturesque mesas, forests and rare verdant bits of valley.
Cohn's brilliant researches, the chief results of which were published at various periods between 1853 and 1872; Cohn's classification of the bacteria, published in 1872 and extended in 1875, has in fact dominated the study of these organisms almost ever since.
The outcome of all these considerations is that, while recognizing that the " genera " and " species " as defined by Cohn must be recast, we are not warranted in uniting any forms the continuity of which has not been directly from the year 1872, when Cohn published his system, which was extended in 1875; this scheme has in fact dominated the study of bacteria ever since.
It is surrounded by ancient walls, and was formerly dominated by a Moorish castle, now in ruins.
The former, settled largely by people from New England and Long Island, was dominated by Puritans; the latter by Quakers.
Before 1800 the state was dominated by the Federalist party; from that date until 1896 it was generally controlled by the Democrats, and from 1896 to 1911 by the Republicans.
The permanent character of ancient or medieval buildings was fitted only to a society dominated by static ideals.
Utterly lacking in perspective, and dominated by the idea of the miraculous, they are for the most part a record of the trivial or the marvellous.
The first half of the century (apart from the scientific activity of Pertz, Guizot, &c.) was largely dominated by the romanticists, with their exaggeration of the individual.
The town is built on the south-eastern shore, and occupies a hilly site dominated by two obsolete forts.
There have always been states which dominated their neighbours, but which did not think fit to annex them formally.
It consists of an old inner town and encircling suburbs, and is dominated by the castle of Friedenstein, lying on the Schlossberg at an elevation of iioo ft.
From 1708 to 1710 he was one of the five whigs, called the Junta, who dominated the government, but he had many enemies, the queen still disliked him, and in June 1710 he was dismissed.
Few men of so much mental force have had so little genius for speculation, and he is constantly dominated by fierce instincts which he mistakes for reasons.
In this respect he was assisted by his friendship with Mr Stuyvesant Fish, who, on becoming vice-president of the Illinois Central in 1883, brought Harriman upon the directorate, and in 1887, being then president, made Harriman vice-president; twenty years later it was Harriman who dominated the finance of the Illinois Central, and Fish, having become his opponent, was dropped from the board.
This literature may be taken to represent the period of the Renaissance in the West; but when the yoke of the Phanariotes was shaken off, the link that connected Rumanian literature with Greek was also broken, and under modern influences began the romantic movement which has dominated Rumanian literature since 1830.
Its temperature must be dominated directly or indirectly by the surface radiation, and since the matter is gaseous and so open to redistribution, the same is true of density and pressure.
He was habitually overruled and dominated by his earls, of whom three, Leofric, Godwine and Siwardall old servants of Canutehad far moIe power than their master.
It was believed at the time, and is still sometimes maintained by historians, that Wolsey laid down schemes of policy and persuaded his master to adopt them; but the truth would appear to be that Henry was in no wise dominated by the cardinal, but imposed on him his own wishes, merely leaving matters of detail to be settled by his minister.
The French were driven out of Naples, and the Imperialists again dominated Rome; the Church, -
Its chief, Lord Aberdeen, was dominated by a desire to preserve peace; but he had not the requisite force to control the stronger men.
Syrian region from the edge of the Antioch plain to Acre, with part of the eastern desert, dominated by his castle at Tadmor (Palmyra), and the important towns of Latakia, Tripoli, Beirut and Saida; and forming further ambitious designs, he intrigued with Christians and broke with the Turks.
While the Church thus lived upon fragments of Origen's wisdom, lovers of the great scholar and thinker, who had dominated his age, and reconciled many a heretic to his own version of orthodoxy, must submit to have him branded as a heretic in later days, when all freedom of thought was falling under suspicion.
The Pharisees, who dominated the bulk of the Jews, 'were content to accept Herod's rule as a judgment of God.
The civilization and political organization of the country were dominated by the Chinese, but were also influenced to some extent by GraecoBactrian civilization, which had probably secured a footing in the country as early as the 3rd century B.C. Our information as to the history of this region from the 2nd century to the first half of the 7th is slight, and is derived chiefly from the Journeys of the Chinese pilgrims, Fa-hien in 399-415, Song-yun and Hwei-seng in 518-521, and Hstian-Tsang in 629-645.
It should be observed that the (also Augustinian) distinction between " deadly " and " venial " sins had a technical reference to the quasi-jural administration of ecclesiastical discipline, which grew gradually more organized as the spiritual power of the church established itself amid the ruins of the Western empire, and slowly developed into the theocracy that almost dominated Europe during the latter part of the middle ages.
Green and Bradley and Taylor are the chief representatives, have dominated the field of ethical speculation since 1870.
To the east, beyond the Panjkora river, are the hills of Swat, dominated by another Pathan race.
The fertile southern and central lands were dominated by strong castles.
At the age of twenty he was a "Liberal," an enemy of the Bourbons and of the treaties of 1815; but he was dominated by the cult of the emperor, and for him the liberal ideal was confused with the Napoleonic.
North of the latter lies the Gabun, with a large number of small tribes dominated by the Fang who are recent arrivals from the Congo.
The middle ages had been dominated by four great problems. The first of these had been to determine whether there should Philip IV.
But Paris being dominated by the duke of Mayenne, who had escaped assassination, and by the council of Sixteen, the chiefs of the League.
The Thirty Years War in fact dominated all Richelieus foreign policy; by it he made France and unmade Germany.
Thus by the hand of Richelieu a union against Austrian imperialism was effected between the Bavarian Catholics and the Protestants who dominated in central and northern Germany.
This sad pair were dominated by the selfinterested and continual fear of becoming subject to the son of the Regent, whom they detested; but danger came upon them from elsewhere.
Religious peace was more difficult to secure; in fact politico-religious quarrels dominated all the internal policy of the kingdom during forty years, and gradually compromised the royal authority.
Paris was in effect dominated by the armed and organized proletariat, and this proletariat could never be satisfied with a settlement which, while proclaiming the sovereignty of the people, had, by means of the property qualification for the franchise, established the political ascendancy of the middle classes.
Lower Nubia was one of the crucibles in which several times was formed a mixed nation which defied or actually dominated Egypt.
Mr Chamberlain had a very difficult part to play, in a situation dominated by suspicion on both sides, and while he firmly insisted on the rights of Great Britain and of British subjects in the Transvaal, he was the continual object of Radical criticism at home.
In 1895 the time for the realization of these views had come; and Mr Chamberlain's speeches, previously remarkable chiefly for debating power and directness of argument, were now dominated by a newnote of constructive statesmanship, basing itself on the economic necessities of a world-wide empire.
Speaking at the Albert Hall in July Mr Chamberlain pushed somewhat further than before his "embrace" of Mr Balfour; and in the autumn, when foreign affairs no longer dominated the attention of the government, the crisis rapidly came to a head.
The council of 130 bishops, which convened on the 8th of August 449, was completely dominated by Dioscurus.
The surface of western Nebraska is characterized by high, barren table lands, broken by canyons, dotted with buttes, and dominated by some bold and lofty ridges.
Though nominally the servant of the States of Holland he made himself politically the personification of the province which bore more than half the entire charge of the union, and as its mouthpiece in the states-general he practically dominated that assembly.
The story is full of picturesque detail and stirring incident, full also of interesting problems in folk-lore and mythology; and throughout it is dominated by the figure of the grim Hagen, who, twitted with cowardice and his advice spurned, is determined that there shall be no turning back and that they shall go through with it to the bitter end.
The city is dominated by the great golden pile of the Shwe Dagon pagoda, the centre of Burmese religious life.
He looked like a corporate chairman ready to give an annual report as he rolled his eyes with impatience at his brother who dominated the conversation with laughter and silly stories.
None of the Philadelphia family was in evidence but a gigantic wreath from Delasandro and Company dominated the foot of the casket.
Some parts have an understorey dominated by cherry laurel, but elsewhere there is a varied ground flora with many ferns.
A ride was cut through the wood for a gas pipeline in 1967 and this is now dominated by hemp agrimony.
A negative pressure difference indicates a weather pattern dominated by colder continental airstreams.
He dominated the airwaves with his 1985 double platinum debut album, ' Rock Me Tonight ' .
Lower infralittoral Sparse kelp park, dominated by foliose algae except where grazed.
Our China 5 Spice is dominated by anise flavors, led by the star anise flavors, led by the star anise.
Redruth dominated the early stages, and Moon earned applause for a number of excellent clearance kicks to touch.
The identifiable hierarchy of settlement reflects a perceived increase in the stratification of society dominated by a warrior aristocracy.
No one breed dominated this year's May beef sales at Borderway, writes auctioneer David Dickinson.
Around Luxor Temple, shopping is dominated by tourist bazaars with enthusiastic salesmen.
Wet patches are dominated by heath rush and here heath bedstraw is likely to be the only common herb.
The reserve's woodland is predominantly oak - many of which are magnificent old pollards - with some areas dominated by beech.
The dry heath areas are dominated by ling, bell heather and bristle bent grass.
The diets were dominated by pelagic and benthopelagic prey and relatively little use was made of the benthic biota.
Moor Piece This block of semi-natural woodland is dominated by birch, with a fringe of conifers along the northwestern boundary.
This vast South American country is dominated by rainforest and the Amazon basin is home to a wealth of exotic birds and animals.
Baudrillard argues that the period of modernity was structured by production and dominated by the bourgeoisie.
The ground cover of the woodland is dominated by bracken which is currently being managed to reduce its potential fire risk.
As expected, bream dominated the match, although a few good tench were also taken.
The front bank continues to be dominated by the bream with a number of 80lb 100lb bags reported this week.
Woodland on the estate extends to some 15 hectares and represents deciduous broadleaf and woodland dominated by conifers.
The site has a variety of aspect and gradients, with the grassland dominated by red fescue Festuca rubra and upright brome Bromus erectus.
Forms of scree dominated by bryophytes and lichens have also been taken into account in site selection.
Much of the foreground is dominated only by primed canvas.
The room is dominated by two tapestry cartoons by Penni, a student of Raphael.
Of the later wards ' Anson ' was, from 1836, dominated by the preserved figurehead of his ship centurion.
We've dominated the charts on this for over a decade.
For decades, the USSR had dominated world chess.
The central region of NGC 1705 is dominated by a gigantic unresolved stellar cluster.
Relief and renewed confidence meant we had the play and dominated the game with one-twos, switching play across the pitch glorious.
That's the end of Bingham's brave challenge as Ebdon has dominated frame ten for a 6-4 victory and a thoroughly convincing performance.
The tidally mixed near shore environments support zooplankton communities dominated by smaller copepods and having large meroplankton contributions.
Unfortunately, these sorts of searches are presently dominated by big corporations with hefty search budgets.
The general negative correlation between the two data sets, dominated by the Galactic plane to high Galactic latitude variation, is readily apparent.
In the 1960s, the British ' youth revolution ' dominated fashion and had a dramatic impact on French couture.
English cephalopod landings are dominated by cuttlefish caught in the English Channel outside the area of interest.
The phytoplankton increase produced by the iron fertilization was dominated by diatoms.
Here is an extraordinarily gifted writer working his way inside a language that has dominated public discourse in the Republic for three decades.
No large mammals ever reached the islands, so birds and reptiles remained dominant - as they had once dominated the Earth eons before.
The midfield dominated from the first kick and never let Bingham get a foothold in the game.
Fernando Alonso totally dominated the first half of the season.
Some are completely dominated by meaningless commercial drivel designed to exploit the darker side of human nature.
The area is dominated by rounded drumlins, with the characteristic smooth, elliptical form.
Similarly, there are small woods dominated by birch with sycamore, hazel and ash and with planted elm and larch.
A key purpose of the site is to debunk the conspiracy theories and conspiracy factoids that have dominated public perceptions of the assassination.
Mammals dominated the land fauna following the extinction of the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous.
Benthic fauna of the deeper waters of the High coast are dominated by a small number of species.
Behind these are areas of sedge dominated fen which can often be species rich.
As it exists today, the third era was enriched with minerals dominated by ferric oxides.
More neutral grassland dominated by tall fescue is found on the more level ground.
Commercial salmon fishers dominated inland waters until Nineteenth century landowners realized they could make more money from anglers.
The old town is dominated by the old and the new Venetian fortresses toward the northern end of town.
According to this view a fully globalized economy dominated by transnational corporations is destiny; it is evolution; it is inevitable.
Sections of lagg remain, typically dominated by purple moor grass.
You want to be dominated but still gripe about it.
But while Henry dominated the early part of our innings, the skipper came to the fore in the latter half.
These changes have produced a global market economy dominated by a handful of corporations and a financial system beyond the reach of nation-state governments.
Today, this dry raised fan of material supports a rich heath vegetation dominated by bell heath vegetation dominated by bell heather which is home to the Red Grouse.
Where the soil is very acid, dune heath develops, often dominated by heather.
Recently planted species-rich hedges are included in this category. Planted Coniferous Woodland Dominated by cultivars of Pinus sylvestris and non-native conifers.
In America the social sciences were long dominated by german historicism.
In the sublittoral this steep-sided, wave-sheltered reef is dominated by a dense hydroid and bryozoan turf with anemones and ascidians.
Barnardo's believes a childhood dominated by institutional care can leave young disabled people ill-prepared for an independent life in the community.
But backward countries are part of a world dominated by imperialism.
During this period the traditional intermixture of workplace and dwelling was replaced by a new pattern dominated by the specialized office building.
Their dreams were dominated by the glorious spectacle of panic-stricken infantrymen flying before the sabers of a troop of mounted lancers.
This is due to the forestation of the hillsides reducing the area of habitat dominated by the laurel.
The freely draining impoverished ands and gravels support a very simple flora which is dominated by ling and bell heather.
The marsh is dominated by soft rush and there are small stands of great reed mace.
Limassol has a picturesque marina and seafront promenade, dominated by the 14th century Limassol castle, which houses the Cyprus medieval museum.
These areas are largely dominated by lugworms, sand masons and other polychaetes.
The picture painted by these three witnesses was of a home dominated by the matriarch, Mrs Joan Cave.
Inclusions are dominated by glassy quartz, but sand and silver mica are also usually present.
An unusual southerly airflow dominated synoptic patterns over the last week bringing remarkably mild conditions and significant rainfall to southern Britain especially.
The field of Italian opera was dominated by Giuseppe Verdi, while German opera was virtually monopolized by Richard Wagner.
The church interior is dominated by the marble monument to Thomas Archer, erected by himself.
Some high hummocks are dominated by wooly hair moss.
The geology of much of the western half of Leicestershire is dominated by the red mudstones of the Triassic aged Mercia Mudstone Group.
It dominated television newscasts and gave rise to endless streams of articles and talk shows.
The diplomatic scene will be dominated by philosophical orators who rave a lot about nothing.
Patronage politics are dominated by who knows who, who owes who, and how much they owe.
The topography of the island is dominated by the paps; conical shaped mountains rising to over 2500 feet.
Our desire to reach technological perfection has led to world dominated by anarchic machines.
To my surprise, the latter category is dominated by Enlightenment rationalist philosophers.
Chip using two colors always been more the bomb dominated proprietes physiques du.
A sheltered bay supports a plant association dominated by shining pondweed Potamogeton lucens and curled pondweed P. crispus.
When not racing powerboats Shelley works in her family bridal wear business, a world away from the male dominated world of powerboat racing.
Mr Kent provided a barrister for his daughter who dominated proceedings.
Inputs of artificial radionuclides into the Irish Sea are dominated by discharges from Sellafield on the Cumbrian coast.
Solent looked all at sea as Wildcats dominated by stealing the ball several times and pulling down every defensive rebound.
West of Bo'ness the south side of the Forth is dominated by the major oil refinery at Grangemouth.
No longer is socialism in Scotland dominated by the ideas of Stalinism or parliamentary reformism.
It is dominated by the dotted rhythms characteristic of a French overture.
Dragons Club is dominated by a fantasy role-playing game, from which the Club receives its name.
The woodland is dominated by oak, but there is also birch, rowan, hazel, alder and holly.
The freely-draining limestone soils give rise to a canopy generally dominated by ash with hazel, and occasional rowan and holly in the understorey.
Some of the pastures are sown grasslands dominated by ryegrass and few other species - low biodiversity is in-built.
Basic flushes are dominated by sedges accompanied by rushes, a few grass species and some choice herbs.
The flushes are typically dominated by a range of small sedges such as carnation sedge and long-stalked yellow sedge.
This has a low sedge sward, dominated by carnation sedge, with abundant common yellow sedge and occasionally flea sedge.
Since then, Holocene sedimentation has been dominated by along slope transport by bottom currents.
And we will stand out like a beacon of light in a media market dominated by sensationalism and distortion.
Portfolio is dominated the policeman journal sentinel reporter over a long.
Flora The tree canopy is dominated by mature silver birch with occasional oak and rowan.
After the War of the Spanish Succession in 1713, British slavers dominated the infamous Atlantic slave trade.
So-called " edit wars " dominated the online discussions, biases were legitimized as " another point of view " and specialists openly sneered.
Had he not left Wales it is likely he would have dominated the welsh snooker and billiards championships for many years.
Our whole formation toward, and in, filmic enterprises, is dominated by such ideological strangleholds.
The marine flora is dominated by seagrass beds providing a substratum for 100 species of zoophytes, juvenile fish and sea snakes.
Typically suburban open plan, motor vehicle and highway dominated, arrangements should be avoided.
We are proving that a local store, serving the local community, can succeed in an environment dominated by the supermarkets.
The woodland is dominated by sycamore with ash, wild cherry and oak.
Before the war the concept of a balance of power in Europe had dominated the thinking of the great powers.
At the very back of the stage come the percussion, dominated by the timpani (kettle drums ).
The landscape is dominated by Glastonbury's conical hill, the Tor, surmounted by a church tower.
Dundee maintains a spectacular position on the Tay Estuary and is dominated by a dormant volcano called " The Law " .
The moth trap is still dominated by large wainscots with 46 present.
The most south westerly of First Class grounds, dominated at one end by Church Towers & at the other by the Quantock Hills.
The original workshop was dominated by two hinged display boards bearing eagles with eight-foot wingspans.
Nationally important areas of carr woodland (fen woodlands dominated by alder) are also present.
The dark areas are dominated by serrated wrack Fucus serratus.
He was a prolific writer, with a prodigious knowledge and memory, and a most ingenious and confident critic; and his work not only dominated the field of archaeological criticism but also raised its standing both at home and abroad.
Under the impression of the July revolution in Paris and of the orthodox and pietistic influences at Halle, Leo's political convictions were henceforth dominated by reactionary principles.
By birth a Jacobite, by association a Tory, he was nevertheless a Moderate, and his politics were really dominated by his legal interests.
The Labour party captured 35 seats out of a House of 125 members; and as the old parties almost equally divided the remaining seats, and a fusion was impossible, the Labour representatives dominated the situation.
Shortly afterwards Nineveh fell, and with it the empire which had dominated the fortunes of Palestine for over two centuries (see § to).
After 1894, in which year the brilliant prospects of a bountiful harvest were ultimately extinguished by untimely and heavy rains, all the remaining seasons of the closing decade of the 19th century were dominated by drought.
On this conquest seems to have ensued a long period of unrest and popular movements, known to Greek tradition as the Ionian Migration and the Aeolic and Dorian "colonizations"; and when once more we see the Aegean area clearly, it is dominated by Hellenes, though it has not lost all memory of its earlier culture.
Throughout the greater part of the 12th century the chief impediment in the way of the external development of the Hungarian monarchy was the Eastern Empire, which, Rivalry under the first three princes of the Comnenian dynasty, dominated south-eastern Europe.
We know that in the 2nd century A.D., when the steppes were dominated by the Sarmatae, the majority of the barbarian names in the inscriptions of Olbia, Tanais, and Panticapaeum were Iranian, and can infer that the Sarmatae spoke an Iranian language.
Hamilton had resolved on making the Gallipoli Peninsula his objective, intending to secure high ground which dominated the Narrows from that side.
And just as mind does not lose but gain in individuality in proportion as it parts with any claim to the capricious determination of what its world shall be, and becomes dominated by the conception of an order which is immutable so the will becomes free and " personal " in proportion as it identifies itself with objects and interests, and subordinates itself to laws and requirements which involve the suppression of all that is merely arbitrary and subjective.
Lightfoot points out, the best Greek commentators among the Fathers are so dominated by this new usage,, that they misinterpret Col.
The situation as regards the further progress of irrigation on a large scale was however dominated in the early years of the 20th century by the new Conservation policy.
Affied through his mother to the Welfs of Bavaria, and anxious to put an end to the unrest which dominated Germany, especially to the strife between the families of WeIf and Hohenstaufen, Frederick began his reign by promising to secure for Henry the Lion the duchy of Bavaria, and by appeasing Henrys uncle, Count Welf, by making him duke of Spol.eto and margrave of Tuscany.
In house decoration of all kinds - furniture, wall-papers and hangings (which he preferred to paper), carpet-weaving, and the painting of glass and tiles, needlework, tapestry - he formed a school which was dominated by his protest against commercialism and his assertion of the necessity for natural decoration and pure colour, produced by hand work and inspired by a passion for beauty irrespective of cheapness or quickness of manufacture (see Arts And Crafts).
But whilst, in its more comprehensive acceptation, the term Hinduism would thus range over the entire historical development of Brahmanical India, it is also not infrequently used in a narrower sense, as denoting more especially the modern phase of Indian social and religious institutions - from the earlier centuries of the Christian era down to our own days - as distinguished from the period dominated by the authoritative doctrine of pantheistic belief, formulated by the speculative theologians during the centuries immediately succeeding the Vedic period (see Brahmanism).
Meanwhile, that there shall be no clashing of conceptions to inhibit the tendency of the idea of an acquired " grace " to realize itself in action, is secured by the complete unanimity of public opinion, dominated as it is by an inveterate custom.
Those periods which have been dominated by the great masters of style have been less interested in the criticism of the historian's methods of investigation than in the beauty of his rhetoric. The scientific historian, deeply interested in the search for truth, is generally but a poor artist, and his uncoloured picture of the past will never rank in literature beside the splendid distortions which glow in the pages of a Michelet or Macaulay.
The Ozark region is substantially a low dome, with local faulting and minor undulations, dominated by a ridge - or, more exactly, a relatively even belt of highland - that runs from near the Mississippi about Ste Genevieve county to Barry county on the Arkansas border; the contour levels falling with decided regularity in all directions below this crest.
Saladin retook it in 1187, and thenceforward, for six centuries and a half, whoever its nominal lords may have been, Saracen, Crusader, Mameluke or (from the 16th century) Turk, the Druse emirs of Lebanon dominated it (see DRUSES).
Around him thronged Moscow's most brilliant young men, whom he evidently dominated.
On Guam, the colony inhabiting the eastern side of the Naval Magazine feeds over savanna grasslands dominated by Miscanthus and ravine forest.
From Factory Junction the canal swings sharply under a road bridge and enters a scene dominated by the Beans Foundry ahead of us.
Much of the native woodland is dominated by sessile oak which was worked for coppice nearly 200 years ago.
The skyline of the town is now dominated by two large wind turbines.
Pools and drains support a variable open water flora and the swamp vegetation is dominated by Common Reed (Phragmites australis).
At the very back of the stage come the percussion, dominated by the timpani (kettle drums).
The landscape is dominated by Glastonbury 's conical hill, the Tor, surmounted by a church tower.
Open & closed spaces The townscape character of the Garrison area is dominated by openness.
Two-stroke machines dominated the Pre-97 class with a brace of wins for Ian Morrell.
The latter alternative as a strategic option is underlined by the facts of technology dominated multiple transaction businesses.
The win was fully deserved by Rangers, who dominated throughout and were unfortunate not to win by a bigger margin.
Dundee maintains a spectacular position on the Tay Estuary and is dominated by a dormant volcano called " The Law ".
The moth trap is still dominated by Large Wainscots with 46 present.
The Scottish Clans comprised an agricultural peasantry dominated by a warrior aristocracy.
The economy is dominated by the service sector, with 87% of the City 's workforce currently employed in this sector.
Whether dominated by pink and purple tones or cool modern hues, baby room ideas for little girls are easy to come by.
Top-loading models once dominated the laundry room.
The scenery of Tuscany is dominated by terracotta tile roofs, fields of lavender or sunflowers, and towering cypress trees.
Diamond shapes and eight-point stars often dominated the geometric patterns often combined with bands of colors running the width of the blankets.
Though the makeup market has been largely dominated by typical liquid foundations, more and more companies are jumping on the spray foundation bandwagon.
This video gaming craze is also not gender dominated.
When Polaroid dropped production of its instant film in 2008, it created an empty space in a market niche that it had dominated for over for 60 years.
When Dr. Land founded the Polaroid Corporation in 1937, the company dominated the personal electronics market right away.
High School Musical has dominated the airwaves for years now, and with an ice show, an upcoming big screen addition to their already popular TV movies, and plenty of merchandise to choose from, the gift possibilities are endless.
Traditionally served at either the rehearsal dinner or the wedding reception, the groom cake offers a way to incorporate a man's perspective into an event often dominated by the bride and other women.
A groom's cake has long been a tradition to honor the male in a process that is usually dominated by the female tradition and imagination.
Ringwald was the poster child for the brat pack, a group of young actors and actresses who dominated the teen movie scene with a string of successful films.
In 1980, Ralph Keyes penned his book The Height of Your Life wherein he explores the reasons why Hollywood is actually dominated by smaller sized men.
Finding modest feminine clothing for girls can really be a task in a time that is dominated by jeans and T-shirts.
If you allow your pet to determine his own preferred behaviors, and believe us he will, then you will find yourself dominated by your pet and unable to train him for nearly anything.
Yet no one-look dominated or defined the era.
Traditionally, Italy has dominated the European jewelry market.
Since the time of James Dean, the t-shirt and jeans look has dominated American culture, taking the place of business slacks and fedora hats as the standard of maleness.
The beef industry there, like most places, is largely dominated by commercially produced non-organic beef.
Crystal Renn is another female model who has dominated the plus-size industry.
As a more visible coaster than its terrain parent, Son of Beast dominated the King's Island skyline.
There was a time when such shooters, especially those that pitted a player-controlled spaceship against hordes of interstellar enemies, dominated both arcades and home consoles.
I doubt it would have dominated the handheld market like the Game Boy, but it could have had a loyal following.
Nintendo has long dominated the handheld video game market with its line of Game Boy systems, most recently the Game Boy Advance and Game Boy Advance SP.
The Nintendo Entertainment System completely dominated the 8-bit era of home gaming.
They've completed dominated continental Europe, and so the final stand for mankind -- or at least Europe -- is in Great Britain.
Handheld gaming systems had long been dominated by Nintendo (as had the home console market) and Sony faced stiff competition from the Game Boy Advance and the newly released Nintendo DS.
Nintendo DS - This is Nintendo's main entry into the portable video game market, an arena that the company has dominated for nearly two decades.
Game Boy Nintendo's Game Boy system immediately dominated the portable video gaming market upon its release.
No on was surprised that Domain Dujac dominated.
One taster who loved this wine commented that the Wesmar " had a wonderful dark fruit nose, a nice balanced cherry that persisted throughout the tasting but that never dominated, and tannins that provided a nice structure."
Pear and orange dominated the fruit.Great wine to drink now and should get better over the next year or two.
Grapefruit, pear and green apple dominated Color was light to medium.
On the mid palate, there is butterscotch, chocolate, black pepper and tobacco. the finish is dominated by cola.
This wine shows more zing and minerality than a 'typical' Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc, which all too often is one dimension, dominated by ruby grapefruit on the nose and palate.
The palate is dominated with cassis, cherry and currant.
Fruit notes are dominated by ripe blackberry and cassis with hints of dried cherry.
This region is known for its stylish white wines, dominated by Soave but including other varietals such as Pinot Bianco, Tocai Friulano, Sauvignon Blanc, Prosecco, and Chardonnay.
While dominated by Cabernet Sauvignon, small percentages of Merlot, Cabernet Franc, and Petit Verdot are added for complexity and roundness.
For Google Android to attack the corporate market -- currently dominated by Windows Mobile and BlackBerry -- it will need to add better corporate support, such as support for Microsoft Exchange for corporate e-mail accounts.
Brain lateralization-A function that is dominated by either the left or the right hemisphere of the brain.
Along with American rival, New York City Ballet, NYCB, this company has dominated the international ballet scene since the 1940s by presenting a full repertoire of classical and contemporary ballet, showcasing the finest ballet dancers.
Just make sure that the other partner doesn't feel dominated or squeezed out.
However, in the decades before household electricity was common, treadle sewing machines dominated the marketplace.
Nevertheless, if you're a self-disciplined gym disciple with a penchant for high-protein diets, then chances are you look stunning in this style, which is usually dominated by toned teenage girls.
The collections of big names such as Shoshanna and Marc by Marc Jacobs are frequently dominated by this skimpy item.
In a swim world dominated by invisible swimsuits and jaw dropping Brazilian bikinis, you may feel as if you are the only person left in the universe searching for a modest bathing suit.
A high cut monokini is unusual enough to stand out in an industry dominated by bikini styles and one-piece swimsuits, but is sexy enough to hold its own when compared to exotic G-string bikinis.
Decades ago, white rice flour used in a combination mix of complementary flours dominated the gluten-free market.
While you are sexually adventurous and don't mind being "dominated", remember that a healthy sexual relationship often begins with mutual respect.
This sign is incredibly intense; when a natal chart is heavily dominated by the Scorpio sign, it can produce an individual who is a passionate extremist.
Problems can arise when a natal chart is dominated by such an intense sign as Scorpio.
A chart-dominant Capricorn can do very well with a partner whose chart is dominated by water and perhaps features a Venus and Moon in Cancer.
It is more common when a chart is dominated by a single element rather than a sign.
Starting in 1991 and ending in 1993, the Bulls dominated the Finals and won three consecutive NBA Championships.
It took my breath away, and then dominated my thoughts about color for two seasons.
Spoilers with regard to Viki have dominated fan interest for more than 30 years.
Since the mid-1980s, the Abbott and Newman families have dominated the spoilers, central storytelling and fan interest.
Arguments have been made that attribute the initial decline to the O.J. Simpson trial that dominated the airwaves for months, constantly pre-empting the daytime soaps.
When soaps returned after the trial, ratings dropped off sharply.Experts argued that in the three plus months that the O.J. Simpson trial dominated the airwaves, daytime viewers found something else to do with their time.
The merger of Mercy West with Seattle Grace dominated many episodes with new interns, new problems and new challenges.
While one decade may be dominated by ruby red lips and pencil thin eyebrows, the next decade may lean toward a softer, more natural look.
While most people think of ancient tattoos when they consider body art history, other forms of body modification dominated certain cultures and body types.
He dominated every conversation and had difficulty allowing the other person time to talk.
Where basketball and golf once dominated, many of today's high school cheerleaders are finding that colleges now offer cheerleading scholarships.
My front yard is dominated by two tall oak trees, which have given us a bounty of acorns for the past couple of years.
In a world that used to be dominated by Frederick's of Hollywood, how did Victoria's Secret ever manage to become the largest mover and shaker in this decidedly feminine business?
The sound and attitude of the music stood in stark contrast to the musical styles that dominated the charts at that time (think Linda Ronstadt, The Ramones, and Boston).
The industrial style that dominated the original Terminator film is refashioned and magnified in the sequel.
Rap music dominated not only the rap related charts but also the mainstream Billboard charts and pop radio.
The three brothers had already racked up some pop hits in the years prior to Saturday Night Fever, but their work on the soundtrack really revived their career, defined the disco sound and dominated the genre.
The Appalachian Mountain area in which Parton was raised is also heavily dominated by the Pentecostal church.
Even though there were so many musical stars in the 1970s that largely dominated the musical scene, there was still the need for more.
This TV genre has dominated in recent years, and the public's appetite for reality shows doesn't look set to wane any time soon.
On both seasons, he dominated the competition until he was kicked off.
With the second season of Jersey Shore in the works, it is assumed that her personal club appearances will wane and will be dominated by appearances scheduled and managed by MTV.
He dominated early in the game, making strong alliances and taking control of his tribe.
Carter works for Network 23, in a future dominated by greedy corporations, where networks compete for ratings on a minute-by-minute basis.
Set in a futuristic multi-ethnic Los Angeles, dominated by Times-Square-like electronic billboards, it is at once both glittering and bleak.
The Piersons Puppeteers are Niven's most inventive creations; two-headed, three-legged creatures of a vast empire, whose culture is dominated by cowardice.
As the entire Star Trek franchise has progressed, many more aliens have shown up in the space once dominated by humans.
Toho Studios dominated that market with their Godzilla success.
In an area dominated by national chain and fast-food outlets, there are a number of family-owned restaurants.
Fourteen-thousandfoot Mount Sneffles and closer Whitehouse Mountain dominated the scene.
How could she think of it as her home when so many of his things dominated it?
Vico founded no school, and though during his lifetime and for a while after his death he had many admirers both in Naples and the northern cities, his fame and name were soon obscured, especially as the Kantian system dominated the world of thought.
It is dominated, on the seaward side, by four hills, and approached by a narrow entrance, with forts on either hand; a breakwater affords shelter on the east, and on the west is the Arsenal Basin, often regarded as the original harbour of the Carthaginians and Romans.
Castruccio dominated Tuscany, where the Guelph cause, in the weakness of King Robert, languished.
It was a revival of the old impossible federal idea, which would have left Italy divided and dominated by Austria and France.
His views on church polity were dominated by his implicit belief in the divine right of kings (not of course the divine hereditary right of kings) which the Anglicans felt it necessary to set up against the divine right of popes.
In his doctrine of human development he does indeed recognize an early stage of existence in which our species was dominated by sensuous enjoyment and instinct.
In fact it was transformed into a separate department of the ministry of the interior, and, provided with an enormous secret service fund, soon dominated the whole ministry.
The Democratic and the Silver parties again united, and subsequently dominated the politics of the state.
But his military appointment required obedience to the Committee of Public Safety, and this body, largely dominated by Edmund Pendleton, so restrained him from active service that he resigned on the 28th of February 1776.
For instance, the peshwas, or heads of the Mahratta confederation which at one time dominated nearly all India, were Konkanast Brahmans.
The whole site of Venice is dominated by the existence of one great main canal, the Grand Canal, which, winding through the town in the shape of the letter S, divides it into two equal parts.
Considered as holy wars the Crusades must be interpreted by the ideas of an age which was dominated by the spirit of otherworldliness, and accordingly ruled by the clerical power which represented the other world.
The picturesque valley of the Tordino is here dominated by the peaks of the Gran Sasso d'Italia.
After the war its activity was shown by an increasing number of assassinations, burnings and other outrages, until by 1875 it completely dominated the mining classes and forced a general strike in the coal regions.
With regard to the changed state of affairs in the Church, it must be said that this can be a conclusive argument only to one who holds the view of the Tubingen scholars, that the Apostolic Age was all of a piece and was dominated solely by one controversy.
Finally, Pinar del Rio is dominated by a prominent mountain range and by outlying piedmont hills and mesas.
The great abstract ideas (considered directly and not merely in tacit use) which have dominated the science were due to them - namely, ratio, irrationality, continuity, the point, the straight line, the plane.
In the next and last period the progress of pure mathematics has been dominated by the critical spirit introduced by the German mathematicians under the guidance of Weierstrass, though foreshadowed by earlier analysts, such as Abel.
On the other hand, the Russians, once their fatherland was invaded, became dominated by an ever-growing spirit of fanaticism, and they were by nature too obedient to their natural leaders, and too well inured to the hardships of campaigning, to lose their courage in a retreat.
It is pleasantly situated in the valley of the Guns, and is dominated towards the west by the peaks of Altenhaus (2000 ft.) and of the Geschriebene Stein (2900 ft.).
But Thurzo was the last Protestant palatine, and, on his death, the Catholics, at the diet of Sopron (1625), where they dominated the Upper Chamber, and had a large minority in the Lower, were able to elect Count Miklos Esterhazy in Thurz6's stead.
The next group of Hungarian dramatists is dominated by the master spirit of Gregor Csiky.
These were all men of progressive, in some respects democratic, views, and in thus forming his cabinet General Botha showed his determination not to be dominated by the " back veld " Boers.
In the literature as it survives many different branches of writing are represented - homilies in prose and verse, hymns, exposition and commentary, liturgy, apocryphal legends, historical romance, hagiography and martyrology, monastic history and biography, general history, dogmatics, philosophy and science, ecclesiastical law, &c. But the whole is dominated by the theological and ecclesiastical interest.
Ottoman guns dominated the entire territory which the invaders had succeeded in the course of two months in conquering, as well as " V " and " W " beaches which were the landing-places chiefly used by them.
The real reference of these stories, however, was forgotten, and it has been reserved to our own generation to rediscover the records of a power and a civilization which once dominated Asia Minor and north Syria and occupied all the continental roads of communication between the East and the West of the ancient world.
This move, however, was not popular, and it enabled the grandi, who, although excluded from the chief offices, still dominated the parte Guelfa, to reassert themselves.
At first, and indeed down to the middle of the 17th century, Jewish traditions and methods in the study of Hebrew dominated Christian scholars; but in the 17th and 18th centuries the study of other Semitic languages opened up that comparative linguistic study which was systematized and brought nearer to perfection in the 19th century (which also witnessed the opening up of the new study of Assyrian) by scholars such as Gesenius, Ewald, Olshausen, Renan, Noldeke, 'Stade and Driver.
It is situated on the Bisenzio, and is dominated by a medieval castle and surrounded by walls of the r r th and 14th centuries.
For, in the first place, it is dominated by one all-pervading interest - the religious; and in the second place, it introduced a new first principle into philosophy, viz.
The directory of the department, of which the duc de la Rochefoucauld was president, was at this time in pronounced opposition to the advanced views that dominated the Legislative Assembly and the Jacobin Club, and Roederer was not altogether in touch with his colleagues.
Frau von Stein dominated the poet's life for twelve years, until his journey to Italy in 1786-1788.
The grassland is dominated by blue moor-grass with herb species such as limestone bedstraw, carline thistle and wild thyme present.
And this human feeling dominated everything else and soared above all their affected chatter.
We took seats on an old leather sofa and side chair while our hostess sat behind the desk that dominated the room.
I assumed his bedroom lay beyond the large living room that dominated the front of the house.
Moslems and Jews were applying Aristotelian philosophy to rigorously monotheistic faiths; Christianity had been encouraged by Platonism in teaching a trinity of divine persons, and Platonism of a certain order long dominated the middle ages as part of the Augustinian tradition.
The settlement of the peninsula by Charles V.'s coronation at Bologna in 1530 secured the preponderance to Spain, and the combination of Spain and the church dominated the politics of Italy.
The town is dominated by the castle (now used as barracks), which was reconstructed in 1492 by the Venetians, after it had been burnt in 1487 by the count of Tirol.
The view that instinct is the hereditarily fixed result of habit derived from experience long dominated all inquiry into the subject, but we may now expect to see a renewed and careful study of animal instincts carried out with the view of testing the applicability to each instance of the pure Darwinian theory without the aid of Lamarckism.
Everyone in the house was dominated by the same feeling that Princess Mary experienced as she sat in her room.
She led us into a large room, dominated by a pot belly stove.
Alex might not respond, or he might abruptly end the conversation, but he never dominated it.
A huge marble fireplace dominated the large family room, its image reflected on the shiny expanse of hardwood floor.
The whole of the writings of this time are dominated by a preoccupation with the functions of the different tissues, in itself an excellent standpoint for investigation, but frequently leading in the case of these early investigators to one-sided and distorted views of the facts of structure.