And the longue durée is now exerting its influence on Iraq.
Because of his weak heart, his lungs had become so ravenous for blood that they were now exerting huge pressure.
He is now exerting his power because the rebels refused to pay the sum he demanded for his neutrality.
If it once regarded Nepal with intermittent interest, China is now exerting itself more broadly toward its small Himalayan neighbor, analysts say — partly because of its concern that Nepal could become a locus of Tibetan agitation, partly as another South Asian stage in its growing soft-power fencing match in the region with India.
It is still holding on to the number one spot, but competition at both the top and budget ends of the market is now exerting an intense pressure on its profits.
In his famous text, Empire, co-written with Michael Hardt, Negri argues that imperialism is over and power is now exerted across all territories.
People in poor countries are now able to exert more control over their own fertility, and hence over the size of their families.A generation ago the biggest worry about poor countries was over-population.
Fully processed amidated forms of the hormone gastrin are now known to exert several functions in addition to the regulation of gastric acid secretion.
Based on these and other evidences, hypocretins are now thought to exert a variety of physiological roles related to arousal, feeding, metabolic regulation, and the stress response (Sakurai et al. 1998; Sakurai 2007; Boutrel et al. 2010; Kukkonen 2013).
Initially described as strong vasoconstrictors, endothelins are now believed also to exert potent proinflammatory effects.
