"exert more power" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used as an imperative sentence, where someone is telling another person or group to use their power or authority in a particular situation. For example, "The protesters demanded that the government exert more power to end homelessness in the city."
This all portends a strong initiative by states to exert more power".
Recent attempts by entrepreneurial legislators to exert more power over companies have, unsurprisingly, led to legal entrepreneurialism on the private side: hence the distorporation.
But labor leaders and administration officials said a single national exchange could exert more power over insurance companies and provide better protection to consumers.
Now, thanks to booming commodity markets and Australia's mineral and resources wealth, the country's biggest miners can exert more power than ever and pursue with vigour whichever causes they choose.
But the two leaders of the Legislature -- Donald T. DiFrancesco, the Senate president, and Jack Collins, the Assembly speaker -- are both vying for the Republican nomination for governor in 2001, and Mrs. Whitman acknowledged that they are likely to exert more power over the legislative agenda during the next year.
Research going back to the 1980s has shown that directors with multiple board appointments form a sort of "corporate elite". They exert more power over corporate policy than other directors, are more likely to receive appointments to influential groups like the Business Roundtable, and have a better shot at being named to prestigious nonprofit and government advisory boards.
If its fiercely blazing modernism no longer feels of this age, it still exerts more power than many considerably younger ballets.
Donald Fehr exerted more power during baseball's steroid era than all the chemically enhanced sluggers combined, but he will evoke no impassioned debates about election to the Hall of Fame in the manner of Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds.
Sessions is exerting more power over millions of Americans than any other Trump cabinet member and is an unmitigated disaster for civil rights, civil liberties and criminal justice reform.
The reduced emphasis on covering the affairs of state governments comes at a time when television has also pared back its reporting, and when state governments, backed by Washington, are exerting more power, enacting more legislation and spending more money than ever.
