Sentence examples for exert real control from inspiring English sources
In the century and a half after the first colonies were established, the mother country had tried to exert real control for only a few short spells.
The National Front took hold in the cities, but the government's failure to exert real control over the countryside — and the success, in 1958, of Fidel Castro's communist guerrillas in Cuba — inspired Farc to create what amounted to a state within a state and to seek national power.
By the early 13th century, however, the efforts of the grand duke to exert real controls had come to naught.
Only in fits and starts did the pack exert any real control and the plethora of substitutions early in the second half did not come a moment too soon.
The power dynamic is a two-way road, though, and the performers have power of their own they are the ones creating intimacy, they are the ones keeping the viewer on the line for as long as possible, they are the ones exerting the real control.
"Statutes have become so broad and sweeping that they let a corporation do just about anything it wants... State law does not and cannot exert any real controls.
The picture is less clear in eastern Afghanistan, where the Taliban still have real control of some areas and exert intimidating levels of influence in others.
Then he added: "But are they willing to exert real leadership with real enemies and real casualties?
In those days, serious critics could still at least seem to exert real worldly power.
Ashworth's view is that the tube-feeding is about his attempt to exert some control over the authorities - it is not a real hunger strike at all.
