Sentence examples for that was exercised from inspiring English sources

"We must avoid at all costs the type of financial gimmickry that was exercised in Nassau County and resulted in that county's having junk-bond status".

In North Africa in 1942 43, the Royal Air Force (RAF) perfected close-air support by concentrating its air power under a centralized control that was exercised jointly by the senior ground and air commanders in the theatre of operations.

I think what really changed my parents' attitudes were what happened the following summer in voter registration in '64, when they saw the kind of violence that was exercised on people who wanted to go down and help people to register to vote.

These rates continued unabated until the harvest at 126 days, suggesting that tuber biomass production might have continued at about the same rate for some time beyond the harvest time that was exercised in this experiment.

Without divine intervention or an edict from owner Randy Lerner, the new Cleveland Browns franchise will end half a century of influence that was exercised by Jim Brown and his network.

"That is not an authority that is exercised by the states.

It's a mystery that's exercised the curious for years – as the Guardian archives reveal.

None of the horses that were exercised with intermittent high-intensity treadmill running showed signs of lameness during the study.

Dogs that are exercised routinely are rarely overweight and this too reduces the probability of acute knee injury.

Despite the rebuttal, McGurk touches on a subject that is exercising publishers all the time.

We have not heard what James Purnell thinks about the matter that is exercising the nation.