Sentence examples for was being exerted from inspiring English sources

Barely five minutes had elapsed before pressure was being exerted in the Tigers' 22, allowing Pienaar and Pedrie Wannenburg to work Trimble over in the right corner.

They said pressure was being exerted by manufacturers of stents, who would like to see them as widely used as possible.

He pointed to the pressure that was being exerted by NBC's affiliated stations for the network to change its 10 p.m. lineup, where Mr. Leno had been moved.

The hostages were caught in a vise: any American action to halt ISIS's advance would likely trigger retaliation against them, but their plight was still a secret, so little political effort was being exerted on their behalf.

Wolfgang Nowak, recalling his days in the chancellery, says: "With every governmental project, you made a copy and sent it to the trade unions". Hildegard Müller, an MP and the leader of the young Christian Democrats, recently discovered what comes back when she received a misdelivered letter "in which real pressure was being exerted on the Social Democrats by one of the unions".

In the article, Ms. Welling said she took her complaints unsuccessfully to the I.R.S. commissioner, to the Treasury inspector general for tax administration and eventually to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, contending that undue influence was being exerted on Micrel's behalf by James Casimir, a former I.R.S. director of national appeals who is now a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

"Every effort is being exerted to restore public order".

Also, in that thought experiment a force is being exerted (the thrust of the rocket).

US pressure on Taipei is being exerted less publicly but with growing forcefulness.

When people power is being exerted, nonviolence, which is sometimes seen as weakness, appears to be a source of strength.

"He certainly has not succeeded so far, and this is why all our efforts are being exerted -- in order to insure that his mission ends in success.