Sentence examples for able to exert only from inspiring English sources

The result, by all accounts, is that the city is able to exert only limited control over activities in the 2,000 square miles of suburban and rural hills that funnel rainwater toward city taps.

For nearly 20 years, European lawmakers have tinkered on the edges, but because of national objections, they have been able to exert only limited control from Brussels, except in rare cases, like the 2007 law capping mobile roaming prices.

With regards to the relationship between motor and prefrontal cortices in pain modulation, Graff-Guerrero et al. [24] compared the effect of DLPFC and M1 stimulation and found that differently from DLPFC, motor cortex is able to exert only contralateral control on pain.

It is argued that the buyer is able to exert influence not only on the coopetition level, so within "horizontal supply chain relations," but that the coopetitive tension in the overall network can in fact be managed through the active establishment and maintenance of such relations.

Furthermore, within a "joint venture" marriage, the wives are not only able to exert more power ("I am better than my husband").

United had 75.2% of possession - 78.8% in the second half - and yet it seemed they were only able to exert their superiority and pose a threat when fatigue set in for Cambridge.

With no restrictions, swimmers were able to exert higher forces than using only their arm stroke or leg kicking (P < 0.001).

Since regulation depends on CcpA- cre binding, cre boxes causing significant regulation of downstream operons already when a small amount of CcpA is available are supposed to have a high affinity to CcpA and titrate CcpA away from low-affinity cre sites, which are able to exert regulation of other operons only when more CcpA is present.

For the Europeans, the region's problems will not be solved until the Palestinians and Israel are persuaded to make peace; the only power able to exert the required pressure is the United States, but the Bush administration does not seem to agree that everything else depends on settling the Arab-Israeli dispute first.

The labor market effect of occupational interaction not only is, therefore, able to exert influences on individual labor market outcomes but also can be differentiated from functions of general individual social networking.

As expected, with no restrictions swimmers were able to exert higher forces than that using only their arm stroke or leg kicking.