Sentence examples for exert no control from inspiring English sources

(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.

The Somali government exerts no control over its territorial waters.

10.43am: Pressbof exerts no control over the PCC, Lord Black says, other than promulgating its code and managing its funding.

This is fitting -- the academic is a good modern equivalent of the classical fool: a strong and sometimes wild personality trapped within a larger world that he understands only imperfectly and over which he exerts no control whatsoever.

He repeatedly told the officials of the Islamic Revolution Court that his children had lived in America all of their lives and as such he exerted no control over their strong, typically American independent behavior.

China then foresaw "damage to Sino-European relations and eventually to the interests of Europeans".Like the EU's ambassador to China in 1996, who tried to explain that "parliaments in Europe do not take instructions from executives", Norway this year has struggled to convince China that the government exerts no control over the independent Nobel committee.

Wegner has found that people can often be manipulated into believing that they willed or intended behavior that is in fact caused by another person's manipulation and, conversely, that they exerted no control over movements that were in fact their own as with Ouija boards, with or without a cheating, intentionally directive confederate (Wegner and Wheatley 1999; Wegner 2002).

The funding sources exerted no control over the final content of this manuscript.

Potential transplant recipients, for instance, elicited either revulsion (e.g., potential recipients 'willing' individuals to become organ donors) or altruism (e.g., potential recipients at the mercy of others for the alleviation of their ill-health) because they exerted no control over the organ donation process but had a perceived conflict of interest in wanting donation to proceed.

When I no longer hold his offenses against him, and can also forgive myself, those memories of him no longer exert any control over my moods or my disposition.

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