Sentence examples for exercised little from inspiring English sources

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

The daughter of Ilya Danilovich Miloslavsky (d. 1668), a rich boyar, Mariya Miloslavskaya exercised little influence herself, becoming known only for her intense piety.

He influenced the government's reactionary domestic policies throughout the rest of the 1880s but exercised little authority during the last 15 years of his life.

Particularly striking was a roiling debate over the relationship between the central Qaeda group and the various affiliates over which Bin Laden exercised little control.

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

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

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

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 Yemeni government, always weak, has virtually collapsed, with President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi exercising little authority since the Houthi captured Sanaa on 21 September.

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