Sentence examples for was to exert from inspiring English sources

In 1868 she met Édouard Manet, who was to exert a tremendous influence over her work.

It was clearly intended that J. Wagner was to exert her vocal abilities to the utmost to aid the theatre to which she agreed to attach herself.

"So the conclusion was that the only way to get to a political solution was to exert more pressure, an evolution of what we've been doing all week".

All this overt activity was but a prelude to the major, more covert, influence he was to exert on two successive Liberal leaders - David Steel and Paddy Ashdown.

Primaticcio's stylistic use of exaggerated musculature and active, elongated figures in these works was to exert great influence on French painting for the remainder of the 16th century.

Like other disappointed Puritans, Milton might easily have sailed for the literal New World, but he instead settled for an imaginary one that was to exert a strong influence on America's Founding Fathers.

One option is to exert private leadership.

Otherwise Mr. Crosby is to exert no influence on the company.

Another approach is to exert old-fashioned peer pressure.

And one way to accomplish this is to exert pressure on them via Trump's base.

The only way to find out is to exert pressure in various directions, or use leverage, and see what happens.