As the struggle to financially maintain Merlin steepened, heroin came to exert a profound grip.
Joblessness, though declining, continued to exert a profound drag on the economy.
Orphic and Platonic ideas also came to exert a profound influence on the Judaic concept of death.
For another thing, he could exert a profound influence upon the press and other independent sources of the public's impression of political events.
"[The election result] could exert a profound influence on the region," the party-run Global Times tabloid warned this week in an editorial.
Together with some essential volumes of poetry (see Nos 4, 11 and 17), this extraordinary drama would not only exert a profound influence on the postwar imagination, it would provide a metaphor for existence.
Hymenoptera, the most prevalent and successful of insect parasites, exert a profound, if subtle, control over populations of other insects and certain other arthropods groups that might otherwise overpopulate and thus upset their particular ecosystem.
Many of them pursued the now discredited tactic of collaborating with the colonial authorities, yet their work laid the foundation for the long and often turbulent process of persuading the British that the conqueror's role could not be sustained in the long term.Imperialism came to exert a profound influence on London's culture and literature, too.
But it's also a deeply telling one: It suggests that the events of the past decade inevitably exert a profound pull even on politicians whose official platforms downplay their significance, and that conservatives who fail to respond intelligently to what should be a populist moment will inevitably end up responding mindlessly instead.
Materials exert a profound influence on the form of products.
Natural and human factors exert a profound impact on the degradation of rangelands, human effects being the most significant factor in increasing the severity of deterioration.
