Sentence examples for exerted a bad from inspiring English sources

Goodell interviewed Vick's family members and associates, and Vick's ability to show that he has severed ties with some of the people who exerted a bad influence on him at home in Virginia will probably be scrutinized by the league before he is allowed back on the field.

It and Hong Kong-based Phoenix Television were shutdown for a day because they had "exerted a bad influence on online opinion," according to the Beijing Internet Information Office.

It might be that when a low-risk person is crammed in with a more dangerous one — the turnstile jumper with the armed robber — proximity exerts a bad influence on the former without improving the latter.

In this partly autobiographical novel by one of China's best-known authors, three women come of age in the early sixties, at a time when even sofas, as a foreign import, were suspected of exerting "a bad influence on the spirit and body of the people".

In a similar proportion of countries, more people believe that China exerts a bad influence on their country than think it exerts a good influence.

If it was a case of the former, Piagol should have been praised as a great anti-communist film, but if it was a case of the latter, it would be regarded as exerting a "bad influence" on society and extremely dangerous.

Memory, however, exerted a pull.

Economic opportunity also exerted a strong pull.

Yet music ultimately exerted a stronger hold.

Usually, the water exerted a slowing force.

This system exerted a powerful discipline.