Sentence examples for exert some sort of from inspiring English sources

I tried many times to persuade my grandmother to let me take her home with me, as if just keeping her close would exert some sort of talismanic power; but she would not be swayed.

Call it spite, or even just a desire to exert some sort of influence on the world because many of these people have felt powerless for a very long time.

"These are people who are the losers in life," Mr. McCrary said, "who feel powerless and are attempting to exert some sort of twisted power and control over others".

Until Bloomberg, a political neophyte, all mayors attempted to exert some sort of control over their police commissioners, albeit with varying degrees of success.

But hopefully I can still exert some sort of influence on some of these, and it's a case of trusting your babies to people you hope will raise them right and not abuse them [Laughs].

A lot of the work has to do with raising this question: is simply choosing or exerting some sort of preference a form of production or making?" --Jonah Wolf.

Rather, it is probable that the environment exerts some sort of pressure which acts upon all phyla to influence the GC-content in the same direction.

He just exerted some kind of hold on her.

Because outside the birds are singing, the trees are about to burst into bloom, and yet his office, where he's worked for years, seems to be some sort of black hole, exerting a force field so powerful it swallows all light.

What makes them able to exert this sort of influence when the vast majority can't?

"I did not exert any sort of force that would incur any of that bruising," he testified.