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Hernandez’s Bastian is a formidable presence, angry, strict and domineering — the qualities he’s needed to navigate a bureaucratic system that has little concern for the feelings of immigrant outsiders.

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"Insiders" came to resent the domineering style of Arafat's "outsiders".

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Todd Marinovich, the test-tube quarterback with a domineering father whose promising football career was cut short by addiction, discusses his memoir.

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Men are born to be strong, domineering and intelligent, while women are fated to be weak, submissive and emotionally irrational.

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"It's a very, very controlling and coercive and domineering tactic" which requires "wider awareness," he added.

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