Sentence examples for exert no from inspiring English sources

Otherwise Mr. Crosby is to exert no influence on the company.

Did he exert no pressure as the empire, from 2001 on, came under strain?

Past-season base hits exert no physical force on subsequent balls in the field of play.

But the hellbent characters exert no more control over their crazy behavior than does the author over his spastic style.

But common practices exert no appeal for Jay, who writes that Buchinger captured "my interest in unusual entertainments".

"The governor continues to exert no leadership, only provides more theater," Charles Carrier, a spokesman for Mr. Silver, said.

Thoughts and intentions emerge from background causes of which we are unaware and over which we exert no conscious control".

Is it true that 1.3 billion people can exert no power to save themselves from the humiliation and oppression inflicted on them by a much smaller enemy?

But he barely uttered a word about the ways in which public policies — policies over which he might exert no small influence — have resulted in the hyper-incarceration of poor black men.

(Or just answering the survey on autopilot, perhaps?) To an unnerving extent – made clearer by ongoing research – we're all creatures of habit, spending our days acting out ingrained behaviours and responses over which we exert no control.

To deny that spirit exists in extension as well as thought, More maintained, was to reduce it to a nonentity that could exert no influence on the processes of the world.