Sentence examples for he exert this from inspiring English sources

As the king of rock'n'roll, Elvis was a man who was used to getting his way – and nowhere did he exert this power more than on his wife-to-be, moulding her into his ideal woman by deciding what she wore (block colours, no prints), what she did (she was banned from working), and what interests she pursued (only those in which Elvis was interested).

He exerted this leadership by means of his sarcastic eloquence, his parliamentary skills, and his privileges as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and later of the Appropriations Committee.

Let me tell the story how he exerted this influence on me, starting with arrival for graduate work at Stanford at the Information Systems Laboratory in 1981 having had an undergrad background at Rice and summer jobs at a company that did empirical modeling using polynomial neural nets (a topic for which Tom had foundational capacity results in his early academic years in the 1960s).

And he becomes this book's true author as he exerts the strength that finally means most here, the redeeming power of an artist's imagination.

He also started doing this weird cough that made him tense up every time he exerted the effort.

"He comes back to exert this new sense of value" and runs into the brick wall of segregation, Mr. Glover continues.

The influence he exerted in this way on his students and contemporaries was considerable.

He still exerts this extraordinary power and fascination.' Richard Rogers forged a friendship with Guston while designing the Pompidou centre in Paris.

Why didn't he exert some control over his cast?

Did he exert a special influence on the younger players?

Part of the fascination he exerts rests on this fragility, and on the paradox of a brilliant mind trapped inside a flaccid body.