This network exerts just as much control over product quality, safety and cost as in-house activities.
Two 350-pound lead spheres placed nearby exerted just enough gravitational force to tug at the smaller balls, causing the dumbbell to move and the wire to twist.
But for Brian Nisbett and Alicia Collins, home exerts just the opposite force: get out of here, it says to them — the sooner the better.
It is a difficult and subtle formula to master: casino gaming companies spend millions refining slot machines to exert just the right psychological pull.
Although it's true that time pressure will force you to concede more quickly, the deadline will exert just as much pressure on the other side – a fact that many negotiators forget.
The sophistication of it is that Putin exerts just enough control (blacklisting certain known dissident voices from state television, for example), and punishes just enough of his opponents, to set markers — boundaries of the permissible.
In this way, he could have exerted just as much influence over government policy, his integrity would have remained intact and there would almost certainly be substantially more Lib Dem MPs than there are in parliament today.
The men and women of the emerging cabinet can be expected to exert just as much influence as the staff in the White House, a notable change from the Clinton administration.
With their golden resumes, long years of public service, strong personalities and close ties to Mr. Bush, Vice President-elect Cheney and the Republican establishment-in-waiting, the men and women of the emerging cabinet can be expected to exert just as much influence over the administration as the staff in the White House exerts, if not more.
A sophisticated and innovative financial system is susceptible to destructive booms; but a simple, tightly regulated one will condemn an economy to grow slowly.The tempting answer is to try to wriggle free from the dilemma with a compromise that would permit innovation but exert just enough control to squeeze out financial failure.
