Sentence examples for exert their own from inspiring English sources

If anything, Federal Reserve members seem to be trying show their ability to exert their own influence.

Deftly braiding multiple storylines, Johns meditates on war, survival and deceit, along with their domestic fallout, showing how life's near misses can exert their own hold over destiny.

A rogue state under Assad has become a failed state, whose map is changing almost daily and whose neighbours are attempting to exert their own spheres of influence.

Since his disappearance from the scene, the local militant commanders in Orakzai may now be seeking to exert their own identity and independence.

"I think a lot of these militias will try to take advantage of this, to exert their own authority," he added.

As the colonial unravelling continues, and as rising powers seek to exert their own dominion, the historic confusions of British map-making are fostering all manner of geopolitical tensions.

But the African oral traditions exerted their own influence on these literatures.

The Lakers, who had been handled — pushed around, actually — by the Celtics in a six-game defeat for the 2008 title, were intent on exerting their own muscle.

Pearson started off writing a book about the Clermont and the people who went there; it just turned into one about Lucan because, he says here, "books have a strange way of exerting their own existence".

Wendy Johnston and colleagues of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MITT) in Cambridge exerted their own "unnatural selection" process on a collection of randomized RNA molecules.

Individualists are understood as persons, who prefer an egocentric strategy by exerting their own strengths and abilities for personal success, whereas collectivists rely on an altruistic strategy, relationships to other people, and ranking obligations and duties higher than their personal needs.