Active hostilities during the first part of June on the Isonzo front centered around Monfalcone, a seaport just below the dominating Carso headlands.
The question of crossing the canal or dominating it in any sense was for the Turks largely a question of bringing to bear a superior force of artillery--a task that had only to be stated to reveal its difficulties.
Deep trenches had been dug on the heights and on the sides of the slopes while strong redoubts had been built at two dominating positions.
In a few years the clerk had risen to be the dominating figure in the coke trade.
Asked what had been the dominatinginfluence of his life, Judge Gary replied: “My parents.
Carnegie’s rise from utter obscurity until he became the dominating figure in the leading manufacturing industry of the world reads like a page of fiction.
The mother's disappointment and her taking refuge in a neurosis brought about an opportunity for the development of power and the attainment of a dominating position.
Whatever thedominating cause, the ruin was widespread.
Yet are there other, still deeper, amply confronting, dominating truths.
To these a sunset, filling, dominatingthe esthetic and soul senses, sumptuously, tenderly, full.
And Pierre found but one word to express his feelings: Michael Angelo was the monster dominating and crushing all others.
Every true American must thrill with satisfaction at these achievements, and the knowledge that he belongs to a dominating race, before which the waning civilization of Europe must fade away and disappear.
The fair metropolis of France, in spite of many transformations, still holds her admirers with a dominating sway.
They will stop at home, occupied with literature and art, perfecting their dainty cities; while their tougher neighbors are dominating the globe, imposing their language and customs on the conquered peoples or the earth.
Abhorrence of the forces liberated by the French Revolution was the dominating emotion.
Yet in the World War it was the possession of food stuffs and raw materials by the United States which gave her a dominating position in the councils of the Allies.
Here he exhibited some of his dominating traits by challenging a champion from the other army and killing him in classical fashion in single combat between the lines.
In speaking of the wife he says, "Her one dominating desire is, not to be independent, but to be dependent on the man she loves.
Too many landlords when they rent to foreigners have apparently one dominating passion,--rent.
The very aspect of Homestead shows how during the twenty-seven years that have passed, the plant has been the unifying and dominating force in the town.
With a powerful Bull clique dominating the trading and every prospect of a strong market, who was it who ventured to sell short?
Still a third said, at the beginning of a half-column article: "It is now universally conceded that an Unknown Bull has invaded the Chicago wheat market since the beginning of the month, and is now dominating the entire situation.
No such effect of dominating human interests salutes him as he steams up the river towards New Brighton from the Bar.
Others, dominating their environment, raise their head to the sky, and freeing themselves from exterior circumstances, release that better part of their souls which forms their primitive being.
The divine justice[221] reigns ever, because the universe is directed by the order and power of the dominating principle (the universal Soul).
The dominating principle of Protestantism has been individualism, and the dominant note of American Christianity is fraternity.
Latin Christianity, then, represents a distinctively aristocratic type of Christianity, the priest dominating the congregation and not controlled by them, the bishop dominating the priest, the Pope at the summit responsible to none but God.
In these two chapters there has been the effort to set forth two at least of the dominating principles of the new social order.
If Labor, then, is to be the dominating factor in the age just opening, it becomes a question of deepest interest to discover the principles of the Labor movement.
And dominating the scene is the imposing figure of the Grand Monarque.
This club, the most influential as well as the most ancient and extensive, changed its views at every crisis without changing its name; it was a framework ready for every dominating power, excluding all dissentients.
The huge dominatingfigure of a man stood for a moment nonplussed, wondering what hysteria could have overtaken his son; but annoyance and stubborn determination to proceed quickly manifested themselves upon his face.
And now he was going to face the resourceful, the ingratiating, the dominating William N.
The tall man swept his grandson with a dominating gaze that was used to see the people about Jesse Lance obey.
The dominating spirit of the vastness of space and of its contents is the dominating spirit of the least part of that which constitutes the whole.
By its means there is no remoteness into which intelligent beings may escape the dominating will of God.
On the left bank the Prefect held only the small but dominating quarter west of the Forum Romanum, of which the Capitol formed the centre.
A little farther up the river, on a dominating rock, stood the Castle of Teriolis.
Ideals filtered into their minds, new aspirations dominating their lives, and all found in the humblest places in America.
In the absence of a dominating theory or generalisation which, when adopted, gives it an organic connection with the general advance of the science, there is no other course than to classify the subject-matter.
But at the mention of that town, and of its dominating genius, the President seemed to become nervous.
The two castles of San Fernando and San Josè, frowning structures of stone dominating this entrance, have long since fallen into disuse, but are still admirably preserved.
Foka, was thedominating ridge of Zeitun, some hundreds of feet higher than Foka and under 1800 yards away; to the N.
During these days of preparation our Battalion dug a strong line of trenches dominating the crossings of the Wadi Ghuzzeh, and most of the officers got the chance of a reconnaissance to a distance of about three miles beyond the wadi.
Our first march was a short one of some seven or eight miles to a bivouac a mile beyond Ali-el-Muntar, the prominent height dominating Gaza at which we had been looking the whole summer.
It may be foolish to rave against the past and those factors and conditions which have put us so utterly in bond to towns--especially since this past and these towns have brought us such great wealth and so dominating a position in the world.
