Sentence examples for he needed to exert from inspiring English sources

As a director, he said, he recognized that he needed to exert control over the entire process, to make technical decisions himself: "I never leave it up to the crew".

If a major Middle East disaster is to be avoided, he needs to exert pressure on Israel now before a two-state solution slides off the table.

He needs to exert himself.

Teachers were unsure about how much effort they needed to exert.

He told us that the two sides recognised that the Polish bishops needed to exert leadership in the face of western European secularism".

The Spock in him needs to exert mental and emotional control.

My EDs often lament about the energy they need to exert in order to recruit board members, motivate staff members, and woo donors to invest in their vision.

"A new approach is needed to exert pressure on the paramilitaries to make them stop".

James was splendid, occasionally dominant, and hardly needed to exert himself in a game that was never close.

But there was a more important reason that the video needed to exert a tyrannical hold in a dark gallery.

DeMint scarcely needed to exert himself to defeat his comic-book-character Democratic opponent, Alvin Greene (who is, literally, a comic book character), and he won that race by a two-to-one margin.