Sentence examples for exerted a considerable from inspiring English sources

A former pupil of Corot, his grandfather had been a director of the Gobelin's tapestry works and exerted a considerable influence on the young Givenchy.

His early music had a wide public as a kind of 1950s chillout music, yet he also exerted a considerable influence on Miles Davis (check out Jamal's sublime composition New Rumba, on Miles Ahead).

There had been allegations by the former Vitesse owner, Merab Jordania, that Chelsea exerted a considerable influence over the Dutch club's approach, but the KNVB investigation found no written agreement between the clubs with all loan moves above board.

Comte idealized this sentimental episode, which exerted a considerable influence on his later thought and writings, particularly with regard to the role of women in the positivist society he planned to establish.

His ultraorthodox views are expressed in writings such as the Discours sur l'histoire universelle (1681; Discourse on Universal History); but he also exerted a considerable moral influence in his sermons and funeral orations, which took the art of pulpit oratory to a new high level.

Also the Brethren's scientific doctrines exerted a considerable influence over 13th-century Jewish authors.

Money continues to exert a considerable influence in the nomination process and in presidential elections.

The inability to secure Sherwood, who would also have represented a long-term option, still represents a surprise not least given Ferdinand, in his new role, is apparently exerting a considerable influence on the appointment process.

Although geopolitics still exerts a considerable influence on political science, particularly in the areas of international relations and foreign policy, the discipline of political geography developed into a distinct subfield of geography rather than of political science.

There is little doubt that dancers' formative culture does exert a considerable influence on the way they look as they dance, even if students worldwide practice the same exercises to achieve ballet's technical goals: turnout of the hips and legs, a vertical torso, lengthened lines, highly articulated feet and legs.

The novel is structured in such a way that it exerts a considerable grip, the tension slowly, painfully building, yet the writing is also evocative and Donoghue has a particularly good eye for costume and the way cloths confer status, the fine stitching, the liquid warmth of velvet and the stays that sculpt a woman's body as if it were putty, as if it were a sinful thing that needed to be fixed.