Sentence examples for exerts itself from inspiring English sources

Much prose writing exerts itself trying to be dutifully good – offering the reader plot-points, sentence-thrills, insights and ideas.

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

Much of Dani's youth has been spent in hospital, where she has struggled to build a normal relationship with a lung transplant candidate, and Wolfson is a keen observer of institutional rituals and the way in which pressure exerts itself during the agonising wait for a suitable donor.

Andrew Copson, chief executive of the British Humanist Association, said: "The notion that it is non-religious people in the UK today who want to force their views on others, coming from a man whose organisation exerts itself internationally to impose its narrow and exclusive form of morality and undermine the human rights of women, children, gay people and many others is surreal".

The will, Hume claims, is an immediate effect of pain or pleasure (T 2.3.1.2) and "exerts itself" when either pleasure or the absence of pain can be attained by any action of the mind or body (T 2.3.9.7).

If the effect fails to come about when the entity exerts itself, we might say, what that shows is that the entity only seemed, but didn't actually, have the power to bring about the effect.

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?

The tongue is a muscle, but in kissing it doesn't need to over-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.