Sentence examples for exercised ever from inspiring English sources

As music hall grew in popularity and respectability, and as the licensing authorities exercised ever firmer regulation, the original arrangement of a large hall with tables at which drink was served, changed to that of a drink-free auditorium.

First, to be able to travel abroad to many more countries by using the power of the dark blue passport, but most importantly, to be able to vote, a precious right I embraced right away and have exercised ever since.

And yet over that time they have come to exercise ever less control over their jobs.

As the representatives become richer, the laws they pass ensure that they exercise ever less power over the rich and ever more power over the poor.

It's so terribly wrong, and the only way they can keep this crime going is by exercising ever great control over this small society.

No definitive account of the meeting exists and it has exercised historians ever since.

The hope is that Pablo Neruda's remains will answer a question that has exercised Chileans ever since his sudden death.

She takes for granted the sisters' genius (the books, after all, are there to prove it to us), leaving the focus on the domestic tyranny exercised – 'twas ever thus – by an addict in the family.

Summits in London will not stop the bloodshed in Helmand – and, on issues of war and peace, "global leadership" is exercised, as ever, in the White House, not in Downing Street.

"Super Girl" had more than 400 million viewers, and its balloting has been called the largest voting exercise ever conducted in China.

The expert is a ground-breaking robot, which this week began the most exhaustive research exercise ever performed on Picasso's controversial masterpiece Guernica.