Sentence examples for exercising a form from inspiring English sources

The egg may be exercising a form of so-called cryptic female choice: selecting the best sperm from the batch with which to fuse.

Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of the Sutton Trust, which aims to promote social mobility and produced today's report, said many schools were "exercising a form of social selection".

Fundamentally, what often occurs is high ranking and experienced terrorists become the servant of the novice radical while simultaneously exercising a form of power over them through their disciplined training regimes and schemas of radicalized thinking.

Now the State Department and United States Citizenship and Immigration Services USCISS) are exercising a form of crowd control to allow non-Chinese investors to line up for their green card.

Massacres and dictatorships are chilling examples of when culture comes to "exercise a form of mind control over us".

An attorney general who interprets his consumer-protection mandate expansively can exercise a form of power that is almost more legislative than judicial.

From the outset, reviewers were nonplussed by this new-old space, especially the tendency for its groundlings (standing audience members) to exercise a form of mob rule.

"Mubarak, and presidents before him, used it to exercise a form of control that stood above the state," said Mr. Sayigh of the Carnegie Center.

For the holder of the consequentialist view, this is a judgment that the agent exercised a form of control that could be influenced through outward expressions of praise and blame in order to curb or promote certain behaviors.

Marichuy toured the five Zapatista Caracoles, the name given to the administrative headquarters in which the EZLN exercises a form of autonomous government.

Assad, for all of his flaws, was able to exercise a form of control over Syria and this somewhat limits ISIS's ability to spread.