Sentence examples for on exerting from inspiring English sources

Privately, however, one executive close to the negotiations said the French company insisted on exerting management control over Gucci and its subsidiaries, which include Saint Laurent, while Mr. De Sole and Mr. Ford did not wish to cede their independence.

Pinault-Printemps-Redoute, which owns 68percentt of Gucci and has pledged to buy the rest by next spring, insists on exerting management control.

But, as he vowed after his election, Congress on his watch will be intent on exerting its independence, "whether it is to the Planalto's liking or not".

The Lakers, who had been handled — pushed around, actually — by the Celtics in a six-game defeat for the 2008 title, were intent on exerting their own muscle.

That's why if Labour insists on exerting its characteristic control to make this potential game-changer for teachers and education into a political manifesto pledge, it will have killed this fledgling before it has even left the nest.

If the acetylcholine is not inactivated as soon as a nerve impulse has passed, impulses continue to flash across the bridge from nerve to nerve; the chemical not only goes on exerting its effect but exerts it in an ever more intensified manner.

For us, it was a way of exerting pressure [on them]," one told police.

But throughout Kent's 20 years at the Tricycle he has regularly seen his work go on to exert an influence on public opinion and policy-making.

Thus only the nodes that are ON can exert their control over the other nodes.

For decades, AIPAC has thrived on bipartisanship, exerting its influence on congressional Democrats and Republicans alike.

Behind this reticence was a tacit admission that his attempt to rely on China to exert pressure on the North Korean regime is looking tattered.