Sentence examples for and exerted that from inspiring English sources

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).

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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.

We do exert that kind of control".

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

"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.

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.

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

An upper limb posture is assigned to each cycle phase; seven angles and the type and value of force exerted during that phase define it.

"Since they have power, they want to force the world to obey them and exert pressure on countries that disobey.