The claim that " capital controls don 't work " often assumes that the objective is either to hold down the exchange rate or to suppress the total volume of inflows , and is accompanied by somedismissive quip about king canute commanding the incoming waves to stop .
Dressed plainly , in a yellow t-shirt , black trousers and a pearly white jacket , she could have been mistaken for a factory worker , except , perhaps , for her challenging gaze and commanding voice .
He was a man who dominated any room and all its occupants with his commanding voice and his presence , and who answered only to his wife , and to the king .
He tried to avoid a monotone in commanding his employees , sit upright during meetings and display powerful confidence at a conference table by marking his territory with a water bottle and notebook .
Yet its angular bones give it a commanding presence .
硬朗的骨骼赋予它居高临下的姿态。
A brief half hour of nonsense followed where another official was commanding us to go through customs yet again , this time with our bikes , but the soldiers around the corner were refusing to unlock the doors .