'exert effort on' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate that someone is making an effort to do something. For example, "Tracey is exerting a lot of effort on her studies in order to get into a good university."
Uninterested in being liked, they just attempt to be less aggravating and less prone to getting in their own way -- when they're willing to exert effort on those fronts, that is.
When applying the model to CHWs it proposes that CHW satisfaction with their role and motivation to exert effort on behalf of the CHW programme is a function of the salience or relevance of the CHW social identity to CHWs and resulting identification with that collective.
Willingness to exert effort on our task has previously been shown to be sensitive to individual differences specifically in behavioral apathy, indexed by the action initiation subscale of the Lille Apathy Rating Scale (LARS-e), modified for healthy people (Bonnelle et al. 2014).
For instance, if a problem is rated as being effective because it stimulates students to work hard, one would expect to observe students being involved in discussions, exerting effort on working on the problem, doing self-study, and persisting over a long period of time.
Still, there were some old dings on my credit that needed to be disputed, and let's be honest, I didn't get into the bad credit game because I enjoy exerting effort on tedious tasks.
"Turkey will continue to walk on her path and exert efforts for world peace, in the country and the region," the country's foreign minister, Abdullah Gul, told reporters.
These decisions, in turn, affect both workers' incentives to exert effort and the amount of paid-for training that firms invest on their employees.
I still have to exert effort when pessimistic thoughts arise.
They play selflessly, pass the ball willingly, exert relentless effort on defense.
Considering the attention of a person the ability to exert mental effort on what is important in a given situation, the paper addresses the importance of the attention capacity in competitive judo at the age of 9 – 13.
Another reason Reid struggled was that the White House, which backed the public option but didn't exert much effort on its behalf, had cut deals with hospitals and pharmaceutical companies that opposed the public option to gain their support for health care reform.
