The royal family exerts hard power and soft pressure while exempting itself from such forms of accountability as the National Audit Office and the Freedom of Information Act.
But how much influence the Influences book, and the fabric trade show, exert, is hard to assess.
When people perceive that they have a high degree of control, they exert effort, try hard, initiate action, and persist in the face of failures and setbacks; they evince interest, optimism, sustained attention, problem solving, and an action orientatio.
The purpose of this study was (1) to evaluate the discriminant validity of motivation items (e.g. exert effort, try hard), intention items (e.g. intend, plan), and implementation intention/planning items (e.g. specific plans), and (2) to then integrate distinct motivation and planning constructs into the TPB model.
By letting gravity do your work for you, you can enjoy fast movement speeds without having to exert yourself very hard.
Every single cool kid at the school saw me try to ease myself back up to my feet using only my arms, exerting myself so hard my trousers slipped down and exposed my butt crack.
But, without "interfering", it is hard to exert influence.
But executives find the kind of power they exert in those companies hard to yield.
It's also hard to exert adult authority if you're hanging out with the kids, and want their approval.
Although coastal states control the waters to 200 miles off shore they find it hard to exert their authority there.
