Sentence examples for attempted to exert a from inspiring English sources

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During this period, Parsons attempted to exert a controlling influence over the group by pressuring McGuinn to recruit either JayDee Maness or Sneaky Pete Kleinow as the band's permanent pedal steel guitar player.

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For example, whether cells attempt to exert a constant deformation and monitor the required stress, or whether they exert a constant stress and respond to the degree of strain remains an open question [14].

Therefore, no movement can spurn its relationship with the institutions: it has to attempt to exert an influence at an institutional level, to occupy spaces and, if it has an alternative project, to completely take over institutional government.

City were below par for much of the afternoon, yet it was only in the final moments of the game that Villa attempted to exert any real pressure and, amazingly, had it not been for a stunning Joe Hart save they would have somehow equalised.

Mr Haresco told the Guardian he had never "attempted to exert any improper influences".

How would you feel if a Chinese diplomat attempted to exert influence over an American court case involving a Chinese company's bogus attempt to shut down American companies from offering products to the American people?

As a result, men attempted to exert greater control over women, thereby causing humanity to move sequentially through the stages of primitive promiscuity, group marriage, matriarchy, patriarchy, and polygamy, ultimately "achieving" monogamy.

His eldest son, Amadou Tal, who had been installed at Ségou, unsuccessfully attempted to exert control over the whole Tukulor empire in a series of civil wars.

And the ruling was also the first time since the military takeover that a civilian court has attempted to exert judicial authority over the ruling generals, who have suspended the Constitution and set themselves up as the only source of law.

Until Bloomberg, a political neophyte, all mayors attempted to exert some sort of control over their police commissioners, albeit with varying degrees of success.

• Kramnik's 10 Ng5 attempted to exert pressure against the vulnerable d6 pawn.

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