Another approach is to exert old-fashioned peer pressure.
Authoritarian regimes can exert old-fashioned mind control by blocking access to the internet and robbing citizens of opportunities to speak beyond their own borders.
Indeed, Mr. Darabont's movies exert an old-fashioned pull, like the roots of an oak: slow to grow but, once they have their hold on you, impossible to budge.
The Hotel Carlton pimping trial in Lille has heard of the power exerted by older men and business figures over destitute women in the northern French city, some of whom had been abused as children, and who found themselves passed around men in hotel rooms, apartments and as the "dessert course" at business lunches.
THE Ashes may not exert quite their old dominance over an expanding global game but, to an Englishman, they remain the essential gauge of cricket's national health.
But after the Republicans swept the 2010 midterm elections in dozens of states, a conservative network was able to exert its own, older agenda in state house after state house.
He will also be expected to wield his newfound influence and exert pressure on his old club Manchester United finally to set up a senior women's team.
Meanwhile, the six stands right now not so much as an emblem of excess and inanity, as a sign in the road, a dividing of the ways, continuing to exert its gravity as old and new divide and converge.
This being a Nancy Meyers movie, in which 55-year-old women implausibly exert charms that no 25-year-old can hold a candle to, Jane has also caught the eye of Adam (played by Steve Martin), the gentle, traumatically divorced architect who is remodeling her house.
Just 24 years old, he exerts his pull in extremely nebulous fashion.
Old age exerted a significant negative influence on PPE use, namely, elderly farmers tended not to use PPE.
