He began with a terse denial that he had ever exerted any illegal influence over the state's gambling boards.
Proponents of deregulation say that the average household has access to so much information in so many different forms that no single company could ever exert undue influence over consumers.
No other celebrity has ever exerted such a pull on her, she says, and she cannot explain why Mr. Jackson is so special to her: "How do you explain emotion?
"Have any American or Israeli officials ever exerted pressure on the American presiding judge (the presiding judge for the court that is) to ensure a change of direction?" Judge Harhoff asked.
The only diligence necessary is the willingness to proceed without ever asking the question: "Will anyone else be interested in this too?" That is the only worthy effort I ever exert while writing.
Boydell's entry in the Dictionary of National Biography ends with the assessment that "no print publisher before or since has ever exerted as much influence on the course of British art".
Washington may make the occasional noise about the need for reform or press for the release from prison of this or that political activist or journalist; but it rarely, if ever, exerts concerted and serious pressure intended to get the government to prepare the groundwork for democracy and to enact economic reforms that better serve the poor and rein in rampant corruption.
Smoking (ever vs. never) exerted an extra risk for AMD, but somewhat surprisingly, only in connection with other factors such as sex and the C3 genotype.
Now, as the Republican Party struggles with how to attract Hispanic voters, members of the Bush dynasty seem more determined than ever to exert influence over the issue they have been helping to shape for years.
Eliot Warburton's "The Crescent and the Cross," published in 1844, had anticipated this: "A brace of pistols in one's girdle, and... hippopotamus-whip in one's hand, does more in the East towards the promotion of courtesy, good-humour, and good fellowship, than all the smiles and eloquence that ever were exerted".
The opposition and some human rights groups have been saying a slow-motion coup is under way in Zimbabwe, with the security forces exerting ever greater sway.
