Dominates Sentence Examples

It completely dominates the city's background, and is a well-known sailors' landmark.

Ben Lomond (3192 ft.), the ascent of which is made with comparative ease from Rowardennan, dominates the landscape; but there are other majestic hills, particularly on the west and north-west banks.

Alone, or in groups, or in long aisles, towering above the plantations or its fellow trees of the forest, its beautiful crest dominates every landscape.

The citadel, which dominates the old port, has a keep of the 24th century.

The Greek cathedral, built in1740-1779in the Basilica style, is situated on a height which dominates the town.

Even here, however, the main central water-divide, or axis of the chain, is apparently not the line of highest peaks, which must be looked for to the south, where the great square-headed giant called Tirach Mir dominates Chitral from a southern spur.

Pettersson's view that ice-melting dominates the 'whole circulation of the oceans and regulates in particular the currents of the seas round northern Europe must, however, be looked on as carrying the explanation too far.

The mass of the nation, of course, was always much more struck by the "signs" and predictions of the prophets than by their spiritual ideas; we see how the idea of supernatural insight and power in everyday matters dominates the popular conception of Elijah and Elisha in the books of Kings.

The site was chosen by Epaminondas and lay on the western slope of the mountain which dominates the Messenian plain and culminates in the two peaks of Ithome and Eua.

The main town lies on the left bank of the river at the foot of the Schlossberg (1545 ft.) which dominates the town.

But the French type proved stubbornly persistent and to this day dominates the older Canada.

Its seaward fortifications rise directly from the water's edge, one fort, on the north mole, standing boldly on a tall rock almost isolated by a little inlet of the Adriatic. On the landward side a massive round tower dominates the city from a still higher eminence.

The nucleus of the ooblastema filament dominates the FIG.

The following table is an adaptation of a scheme devised by Klebs, and indicates the inter-relationships of the marked alternation of generations which of genera- b' dominates the life-history of the higher plants.

On the north-east the principal heights are Ben Slioch (3217 ft.), whose sugar-loaf form dominates the landscape, Ben Lair (2817) and Ben Airidh-a-Char (2593), and, on the south-west, the peaks of Ben Eay, four of which exceed 3000 ft.

As a strategical centre Jalalabad is one of the most important positions in Afghanistan, for it dominates the entrances to the Laghman and the Kunar valleys; commanding routes to Chitral or India north of the Khyber, as well as the Kabul-Peshawar road.

Budapest is situated nearly in the centre of Hungary, and dominates by its strategical position the approach from the west to the great Hungarian plain.

He was the first great name in the Orthodox Eastern Church since 1453, and dominates its history in the 17th century.

Grounds for a variety of developments are to be found in the imperfect harmonization of the rationalistic heritage from the Wolffian tradition which still dominates Kant's pure general logic with the manifest epistemological intention of his transcendental theory.

Already' to the apostle Paul he dominates the world and is above all created things, visible and invisible, so that he has the religious value of God.

His idea of revelation depends upon the same mechanical conception of the relation of God to the world which dominates his Natural Theology; and he seeks to prove the divine origin of Christianity by isolating it from the general history of mankind, whereas later writers find their chief argument in the continuity of the process of revelation.

They touch, on the one hand, the absolute originality of Christianity and its attitude to Jewish legalism, and, on the other, the true place of the pseudepigrapha in Jewish thought and the antiquity of the Judaism which dominates the Talmud.

On an eminence, which dominates the town, is situated the old castle, formerly the seat of the counts of Gerz, now partly used as barracks.

A hill fortress dominates the town and overlooks the debouchment of the road from Haibak and Kabul into the plains of the Oxus.

Faith dominates this section; faith in its historical career and as the vantage-ground of Christianity.

Although suggestions have been made of the existence of higher peaks north of the Himalaya than that which dominates the Everest group, no evidence has been adduced to support such a contention.

Where possible, he substitutes human for divine intervention, and ignores the idea of the glorification of Rome and Augustus, which dominates the Virgilian epic. On this work were founded the Eneide or Eneit (between i180 and 1190) of Heinrich von Veldeke, written in Flemish and now only extant in a version in the Thuringian dialect, and the Eneydos, written by William Caxton in 1490.

Doubtless, it has very ancient and close associations with Thessaly; for most of the leading tribes must have entered Hellas by this route, and remembered the mountain Olympus that dominates this region as the earliest home of his cult, and took with them to their most distant settlements the cult-title 'OXi' trnos.

The huge castle-keep, which dominates the town, was probably built by Gilbert de Clare, early in the 12th century; formerly used as the county gaol, it now serves as the police-station.

The surface is generally hilly; the scenery is fine in the north, where the cliffs reach a height of 135 ft., and the granite hill of Helligdomsklipper dominates the island.

It is the religion of mediatorial salvation, and, as Schleiermacher emphatically taught in his riper works, of salvation through the mediation of Christ; that is, its possessors are conscious of having been delivered by Jesus of Nazareth from a condition in which their religious consciousness was overridden by the sense-consciousness of the world and put into one in which it dominates, and everything is subordinated to it.

From the end of September to the 24th of November the Army of the Cumberland was then invested in Chattanooga by the Confederates, whose position lay along Missionary Ridge from its north end near the river towards Rossville, whence their entrenchments extended westwards to Lookout Mountain, which dominates the whole ground, the Tennessee running directly beneath it.

However widely the two systems differ in details, they are at one in a certain fundamental conception which dominates the whole course of their philosophic construction.

He is frequently untrue to the more comprehensive conception which dominates his work as a whole.

He was the paramount chief who dominates all of the Kusu.

The sheer brawn of this PSU dominates almost every power supply on the market Watt for Watt.

Enjoy a panoramic view of the city where the cathedral dome dominates the cityscape.

The fluvial facies dominates the basal sediment portion that is overlain by an aeolian interval.

Whence the concept of linear karma dominates the foreground of ethics.

Surely the reason Vietnam dominates this week's suggestions is because conscription gave the conflict such ghastly immediacy.

The mode of thought which dominates the modern capitalist philosophy and science is called the metaphysics.

Under capitalism, the system of commodity production par excellence, the product completely dominates the producer.

The reformist outlook which dominates Labor confines the party to an exclusively parliamentary role within the capitalist system.

The arc of jagged peaks rises steeply form the sea and dominates the skyline for miles around.

Slotted together from pre cut plywood sections the construction dominates the center of the gallery.

The meaning dominates so much over the form that in many instances the ghazals break the laws of traditional prosody and metrics.

A table around which the entire crew can sit dominates the spacious saloon located in the middle of the yacht.

Willow or birch dominates scrub on wetter dune slack areas.

In southwest England and in Wales wild thyme thymus polytrichus often dominates this type of vegetation.

It dominates the centres of intellectual life in the West because, despite its claim to finality in its principles or premises, and to universality for its method, it represents the only culture of a philosophic kind available to the adolescent peoples of the Western nations just becoming conscious of their ignorance.

A large roll-top desk purportedly once owned by Andy Warhol dominates the room.

In southwest England and in Wales wild thyme Thymus polytrichus often dominates this type of vegetation.

Dominates the timbre of bells rung in rapid sequence.

Fruit dominates both versions, though the men's is a bit spicier with hints of moss and musk to liven it up.

With the majority of his clientele being famous Hollywood celebrities such as Rita Hayward and Ave Gardener, it is no surprise that red carpet fashion dominates the Dior house.

The frame is contained to the upper part of the sunglass, while the lens itself dominates the look.

Syrah dominates the blend with 43 percent, but then Grenache, Cabernet Sauvignon, Carignane, Mourvedre, Sangiovese, Cinsault, and Petite Sirah are thrown into the cask.

A lush black cherry and raspberry-blackberry fruit jam dominates and couples with bits of dried herbs and mushrooms that is topped off with subtle vanilla.

The presence of a special needs child who dominates the parents' attention can add to increased resentment and rivalry.

That is because the abnormal gene dominates the normal gene.

Obsession-A persistent image, idea, or desire that dominates a person's thoughts or feelings.

The standard A-line pull-on skirt dominates most collections, but you'll also find more flared versions, straighter skirts, skirts with kick pleats or side-splits and wrap skirts.

Everyone knows that bad news dominates the evening news on television and in the newspapers.

With all the misleading marketing and advertising that dominates the world of pet foods, it is sometimes difficult for pet owners to realize that commercially packaged dog foods are not necessarily healthy.

A large light-blue star dominates the center of this bookbag.

The Eiffel Tower has become a universally recognized symbol of the city because of its distinctive shape and the fact that it dominates the Paris skyline.

The massive cathedral at Chartres (properly named Notre-Dame de Chartres or "Our Lady of Chartres) dominates the view throughout the town.

The company, which has been a leader in the travel industry since 1856, dominates the mapping, routing, geographic reference, and trip-planning tool marketplace.

The latter unfortunately dominates much of the female-specific fitness information available to women.

Large, luscious lips colored in a vibrant red dot the pant landscape, while a single pair of giant red lips dominates the tank.

Sound effects match up well with the bat action, but the movie's music dominates the scenes.

Amongst the elements of our thought there are some which we can make and unmake at our pleasure; there are others which come and go without our wish; there is also a third class which is of the very essence of our thinking, and which dominates our conceptions.

The moral interest, which is so decisive on this question in the case of Kant, dominates Bishop Butler also.

A network of party policy embraces and dominates the burghs of Italy, bringing the most distant centres into relation, and by the very division of the country augmenting the sense of nationality.

From Socrates, in Xenophon's Memorabilia, downwards, the argument is tolerably common; it is notable in Cicero; in the modern discussion it dominates the 18th-century mode of thought, is confidently appealed to though not worked out by Butler, and is fully stated by Paley.

To the ancient Greeks Caucasia, and the mighty range which dominates it, were a region of mystery and romance.

You think he dominates her, but here he is trying to give her the means to be independent and what does she do?