Sentence examples for exert a firm from inspiring English sources

In a perfect world, fathers exert a firm and wise influence on their children.

Peter Stein, who once inspired controversy himself, has of late favored straightforward storytelling but does so to a fault in Verdi's "Don Carlo," even failing to exert a firm directorial hand.

"And what does this do?" "It exerts a firm but comfortable pressure on the body, from the shoulders to the knees," Temple said.

Lassitude exerts a firm gravitational pull on the estate run by the middle-aged, self-despising Vanya (the astonishing Richard Roxburgh, who seems to melt and re-form before your eyes) and his industrious niece, Sonya Hayley McElhinneyy).

Rodrigo Plá of Uruguay exerted a firmer grip in La demora (The Delay), a finely calibrated emotional drama about a father and daughter facing desperate times.

Exert a steady, firm pressure to stimulate circulation and loosen the muscles.

Ownership concentration matters for firm strategy, innovation, and performance (Bhaumik et al., 2017; Bozec, 2005), since large shareholders can exert a fundamental influence on a firm.

Kim echoed those sentiments, saying that he had "made a firm commitment to exert active efforts to make the Korean Peninsula free of nuclear weapons and nuclear threat and turn it into a land of peace," according to The New York Times.

A firm's size exerts a direct, inverted U-shape effect on the probability to invest and an indirect effect through the linear effect of size on the probability to innovate.

There is now a firm experimental evidence that some antibodies can exert a significant antifungal defensive action [7], [8], [12] [14].

A firm with a manager who provides one unit of labor exerting effort (a m ) and a worker who exerts productive effort (a w ) and unproductive effort (d w ) produces ( 2sqrt{a_w{a}_m} ) units of final good x.