Just how much sway Iran will exert over a new Iraq is far from clear.
The cases being brought against Colombo family leaders, for example, touch on the illegal influence they allegedly still exert over a branch of the Cement and Concrete Workers Union.
In the end, there's only so much control House leaders can exert over a congressman who answers to voters back home.
Yet the velocity of Dickey's knuckleball, which can arrive almost as quickly as a slider, is unique, and helps explain the uncanny control he now seems to exert over a pitch that's notorious for being uncontrollable.
I decided long ago that Koons believes what he says, though, and I suspect that this convincing (and obsessive) sincerity, with its roots in bourgeois middle-class values and its rejection of postmodern art theories, is a factor in the magnetic power that these absurd images — some of them, anyway — can exert over a wide gamut of viewers.
Generally, employers and contractors in the United States are distinguished by the amount of control and direction an employer exerts over the worker.
"Marnie" is a movie of violent passion that contains an appalling rape scene; the essential subject of the movie is control — the control that a man exerts over an unwilling woman to "cure" her of her resistance to pleasure (that is, to pleasure with him and for him).
Of course, there are many differences between state and domestic violence; one cannot make a pure comparison between the control an oppressive government exerts over an entire country and that which an abuser exerts over an individual victim.
We therefore speculate that the observed geographical variation in DC-SIGN binding may be a result of local selective pressures exerted over an evolutionary timescale.
Yet those volumes of Presidential papers suggest, in at least some of their many pages, that oratory can exert, over time, a kind of cumulative effect expanding, speech by speech, the breadth of possibility.
