The word 'exerting' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate the process of exerting effort or influence to achieve a specific result. For example: "The students worked hard, exerting all their effort to get the best grade possible."
But what is most interesting about media in recent years is the way the public are bypassing politicians and newspapers, using media of their own to exchange information and arrive at their own positions; then exerting pressure in search of changes they desire.
Even the Spanish had trouble exerting their influence here.
A teacher's diligence, he observed, "is likely to be proportioned to the motive which he has for exerting it".
Wish I could do that ;) Clive Hamilton, Professor of Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University:With a cadre of aggressive and demanding mining magnates and a handful of mining corporations exerting unparalleled influence over national decision-making, Australia is rapidly turning into a plutocracy.
Yet the recent turbulence in government policy on industries spanning telecoms, energy, finance and the media suggests that politicians are exerting their influence over regulatory decisions more than ever before.With hostility towards big business in America still raging, the politicians have mostly used their muscle to impose more restrictive policies.
The daily barrage of nuclear intimidation from North Korea is exerting a profound effect on the opinions of people who were once committed to pacifism.
But it remains the only country capable, in theory, of exerting any restraining influence on his erratic regime.Not that North Korea shows much evidence of restraint.
Iran's response to aggression would be swift and decisive, said Mr Jafari, and could include strikes against Israel, strikes at countries hosting American bases in the Gulf, and exerting control over the narrow Strait of Hormuz, through which most of the region's oil flows to market.
In fact, those cyclically unemployed workers are exerting a disinflationary force on the economy, which is why the Fed has had to make monetary policy progressively more expansionary to keep inflation expectations from falling below 2%.
Correction to this article CONGRESS now faces a moment of decision between exerting its full authority…or accepting a dangerous expansion of executive branch authority".
Thanks to the party's jealously guarded monopoly of power, the only other forces now capable of exerting their interests collectively are generally undesirable: criminal gangs, clans and the self-interested rich.
