Sentence examples for exercise a powerful from inspiring English sources

Economic downturns exercise a powerful check on regulatory overreach.

Such norms continue to exercise a powerful influence.

Seabiscuit: The True Story of Three Men and a Racehorse Laura Hillenbrand 399pp, Fourth Estate, £16.99 Horses exercise a powerful hold over the public imagination.

And slave rebels like Turner, Cinque, Madison Washington and above all the participants in the Haitian Revolution continued to exercise a powerful influence on the abolitionist imagination.

Some saw a commonality of interest with working men in opposing the influence of the conservatives, whose safe positions in the legislative councils, where a property qualification was needed to cast a vote, meant that they could exercise a powerful and frequent veto.

That is partly the result of corporate strategy and canny marketing, but it's also clear that these serial narratives about regular folks gifted (or cursed) with extraordinary abilities and menaced by diabolical enemies exercise a powerful hold on the popular imagination.

William McKinley and exercised a powerful influence in guiding bills through Congress.

His style exercised a powerful appeal upon the poets of the Carolingian renaissance.

Their most senior economist, Hassan Malek, a rich businessman, exercises a powerful influence on economic policy behind the scenes.

MARRIAGE, and its many ups and downs, still exercises a powerful hold over newspapers, magazines and the airwaves.

The various Savonnerie fashions have exercised a powerful influence upon the patterns of other Western carpet workshops.