Sentence examples for exerting itself from inspiring English sources

P.S. Germany's cinema, on the other hand, is exerting itself to abase the unholiest of leaders by means of frequent representation.

Équipe [team] – the very word exercises a noble influence on the heart of our group – an influence that was exerting itself during a time of rage and hope when our collective will was placed in the service of the Resistance".

In the red states of the South, where the Democrats have been fighting a valiant rearguard action, gravity appears to be exerting itself, with G.O.P. candidates such as Thom Tillis, Tom Cotton, and David Perdue benefiting from the strong anti-Obama sentiment among white voters.

For the past two years Yahoo! has invested oodles in a project called Panama that was meant, again, to catch Google.Presumably Yahoo! has been exerting itself so because it believes that the advertising technology is, along with search, the source of competitive advantage in the internet era.

If it once regarded Nepal with intermittent interest, China is now exerting itself more broadly toward its small Himalayan neighbor, analysts say — partly because of its concern that Nepal could become a locus of Tibetan agitation, partly as another South Asian stage in its growing soft-power fencing match in the region with India.

Similarly, the White House is exerting itself mightily to block Hamas' tentative modus vivendi with Fatah.

But the rock doesn't exert itself as a result of all this "thinking".

Does it sap individual initiative or give it new forums to exert itself?

In fact, something bigger has taken place: the legislature has exerted itself against the executive.

If you played Counter-Strike a lot five years ago, the muscle memory will exert itself within minutes.

But a particular force exerts itself on Muslim students, pulling them toward religious conservativism -- alienation from their non-Muslim peers.