Sentence examples for and exert that from inspiring English sources

"It all comes down to power and influence, and fund boards need to be more independent and exert that independence," Mr. Bullard said.

Taking a cue from ordinary language, he holds that it is a contradiction to say that an entity has the power to do something, and exerts that power, and yet the effect fails to come about.

Reid writes, "In the strict and proper sense, I take an efficient cause to be a being who had power to produce the effect, and exerted that power for that purpose" (Letter to James Gregory, in Correspondence 174).

Mr. Bush's aides said they simply believed that the two major party's nominees should have some say over the shape of the debates and were trying to exert that privilege.

The White House was left to hope that rank-and-file senators can build momentum for a bipartisan deal that isolates Republican leaders and exerts pressure that cannot be resisted.

Why bother enduring all that pain and exerting all that effort if your survival into old age remains a lottery?

We do exert that kind of control".

The candidates possess the best values of the parameters calculated and exert diverse functions that render them useful as different targets in the microorganism.

And among those exerting that pressure will be Mr. Andrews's fellow opponents of the Iraq war.

The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings 304pp, Jonathan Cape, £12.99 A plot which revolves around the main character's slow demise in a hospital bed could be construed as morbid, but Kaui Hart Hemmings's first novel manages to both be shockingly irreverent and funny while exerting that all-important emotional tug.

It's really great to see it coming out and the 99percentt exerting that we're still here is a really great thing.