Sentence examples for exercise little from inspiring English sources

Those who ignore rules of fashion exercise little influence in society, whether we like it or not.

Mr. Morsi still appears to exercise little day-to-day authority over the judiciary, the police, the military and the state-run news media.

In any bankruptcy filing, a judge would probably choose to exercise little control over the archdiocese's day-to-day affairs, out of reluctance to get too involved in the religious work of the church.

Mr Milburn talks wistfully of giving every patient the right to choose their hospital, where currently they exercise little or none.But giving patients real choice, and hospitals the ability to respond to it, would involve far more radical change than the government seems willing to embrace.

Whereas the earliest Christians could exercise little or no influence on civil rulers, the "conversion of the Empire" under the 4th-century emperors Constantine and Theodosius permitted bishops their say in the personal and political affairs of emperors and in the wider life of society.

Meanwhile, household composition and personal factors like education level, gender and nativity of household heads as well as gender/youth factors in the households exercise little or no influence on production efficiency of rural farm households in the study area.

Hertling, however, exercised little real power, which remained in the hands of the supreme military command headed by Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff.

Over the past two years, Afghanistan's government has exercised little control outside Kabul, and opium production has soared.

No such demand is made of President Bush, who is exercising little to no restraint in his response to Osama bin Laden's terrorism.

Hamid Karzai, the U.S.-backed President, exercises little political control outside Kabul and is struggling to undercut the authority of local warlords, who effectively control the provinces.

The people of the frontier came to inhabit a nebulous no-man's land where the state exercised little control over them.