"control exerted" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to the action of exercising influence over a person, situation or process. For example, "She exerted strong control over the project by ensuring that all deadlines were met."
The times might have been more innocent, but not without a film-noir side: the tight control exerted on a small company town by a few moguls.
One concern, the directive adds, is that "administrative oversight exerted over contractors is very different from the command and control exerted over military and civilian employees".
The control exerted by British elites is based on trust and loyalty - and the mutual fear of being exposed.
Where they had been smuggled or apparently trafficked, their experience on their first boat was the most exploitative, with wages underpaid or unpaid, their fear and confusion greatest and the degree of control exerted over them strongest.
That the "actors" are puppets, Mr. Shawky said, has do with the "manipulation and control" exerted by the Vatican over Europeans who marched east, often to their deaths.
But the executions continue on a regional level, betraying a form of control exerted by Isis that is no less terrifying.
This is in turn a result of the strict village-level control exerted by the CPI(M), whose leftist coalition has ruled the state for over three decades.
That's the view that the shares of News Corporation trade lower than the intrinsic value of its many media assets because of the control exerted by Rupert Murdoch.
And indeed in the new biographers of James by Fred Kaplan and Sheldon Novick, and especially by Lyndall Gordon, a new James began to emerge, free of the control exerted by members of his family.
The new and, some of us would say, more sinister development is the level of control exerted by multinationals over the shape, content and assessment of the curriculum, and the amount of data they hold and who owns it".
In short, technology changed; the control exerted on the image, ubiquity and lack of expertise required to create a selfie often makes the viewer (depending on the relationship to the subject) uncomfortable.
