Sentence examples for was exerted over from inspiring English sources

Little control was exerted over interrogations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The episode, described only briefly in a summary of the report reviewed by The New York Times, was one example of how little control was exerted over the conduct of interrogations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the subject of an exhaustive review just completed by Vice Adm. Albert T. Church, the naval inspector general.

Greater control was exerted over the lawless Borders through a joint commission with the English, set up in 1587.

The present results demonstrated that when control was exerted over the listening context by requiring participants to attend to the irrelevant feature, the feature-related response was rather more widespread than with the corresponding passive localizer.

Between songs she confessed that due to the crippling control the music and media industry was exerting over her career, she was bowing out.

Throughout the show, White's guitar playing was a thing of wonder, but not because of the power he was exerting over his instrument; indeed, he seemed barely in control of the thing, which was spraying trebly, high-pitched feedback all over the place.

Officials at the White House and the Justice Department said no political pressure had been exerted over the statistics branch.

A second and less immediately responsive, or "coarse," control is exerted over the synthesis of pacemaker enzymes.

Tougher regulation The government will announce this month who will research what further controls, if any, should be exerted over lenders.

The government is conducting research into what controls should be exerted over short-term lenders, which is expected to run far into next year.

While universities have become larger, more complex places, many academics worry that this expanded tier of management is a symptom of a new bureaucratic control being exerted over their working lives.