Sentence examples for came to exercise from inspiring English sources
He later came to exercise influence on the queen but was eventually removed from court.
Television in Australia effectively began with the broadcast of the 1956 Olympics and soon came to exercise its characteristic influence.
Zangī thus came to exercise authority over a considerable geographic area, but he wanted to create a kingdom that would also include Syria and Palestine.
Murky privatisation overseen by the former president, Leonid Kuchma, in the mid-1990s created a class of oligarchs who came to exercise outsized influence on politics and business.
It was founded in the late 14th century, when the kabaka, or ruler, of the Ganda people came to exercise strong centralized control over his domains, called Buganda.
His job was to check members in — he called himself a glorified towel boy — but one day Michael Ryan, a poet who had received a Whiting Award alongside him two years before, came to exercise.
Yet he has come to exercise an extraordinary fascination.
TED has come to exercise lots of power but they don't exercise it wisely.
I'm not even a lapsed middle-aged athlete; I'm truly negligent when it comes to exercise.
The historical stages by which governments have come to exercise their contemporary functions make an interesting study in themselves.
Massacres and dictatorships are chilling examples of when culture comes to "exercise a form of mind control over us".
