Sentence examples for for exerting from inspiring English sources

Frequent governance change can itself be a route for exerting political pressure on the BBC.

These experiments demonstrated that there is a finite store of mental energy for exerting self-control.

Mr. Vance said he made no apologies for exerting more control over prosecutors.

Some purists even condemn the use of a rolling pin for exerting unnecessary violence upon the dough.

This is the client's medium for exerting control; this is how it helps itself to maximum value.

A former prime minister, Stanley Baldwin, once delivered a famous attack on the press for exerting "power without responsibility".

The Night Wolves had evolved from a tool for exerting soft power to something harder and more violent.

A teacher's diligence, he observed, "is likely to be proportioned to the motive which he has for exerting it".

"The Liberal Democratic Party was not made for exerting strong leadership," said Yoshimi Watanabe, a former minister of administrative reform who left the party last month.

As Goldberg himself put it, his cartoon inventions were a "symbol of man's capacity for exerting maximum effort to accomplish minimal results".

When I hear the term "hard-working", I feel the urge to make the case for laziness, or for exerting oneself no more than moderately.