After all, what is comprehensible can be tinkered with and, in time, improved.The standard account tells us that the new science broke the stranglehold that the church and a few of its favoured pagan thinkers (chiefly Aristotle) had exerted for centuries on Western thought.
England had lost the measure of control they had exerted for a spell, but there was still much to encourage Hodgson, particularly when Rooney opened up Italy's defence and Danny Welbeck should have done better than sidefoot wide from the edge of the area.
We have sought to deny China a regional sphere of influence that we have exerted for almost two centuries beginning with the Monroe Doctrine.
After one memorable week as the Knicks' interim coach, Mike Woodson would agree — even if Woodson "can't explain" why Carmelo Anthony had little interest in hustling for Mike D'Antoni but has exerted himself for Woodson during a winning streak that reached five games Wednesday night with a fiercely contested 82-79 win over the 76ers.
Mythologies itself was reworked last year for the era of selfies, vaping and Nando's by Peter Conrad on Radio 4 (startling lunchtime listeners waiting for The Archers); but it has exerted an influence for decades via cultural studies, where Barthes's aim of exposing hidden "ideological abuse" in popular culture is retained.
But, more than his life, it is Gesualdo's music that, especially since the mid-20th century, has exerted a powerful fascination for creative artists, a phenomenon that finds a new and compelling flowering in Marc-André Dalbavie's opera "Gesualdo," now enjoying its world-premiere run at the Zurich Opera.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964 "for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age".
Since its publication in 2001, the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages has exerted tremendous influence on language learning, teaching, and assessment in China.
As leader of the far-right Hindu political party Shiv Sena, Mr. Thackeray has exerted his influence on Maharashtra politics for nearly five decades.
"We thus find," Kelling wrote, "that 'broken-windows' policing, as reflected by arrests for misdemeanor offenses, has exerted the most significant influence on trends in violent crime".
