Sentence examples for were exerted from inspiring English sources

The dominant historical influences roughly coincide with those that have affected German mainstream literature, though, as expected, they were exerted more slowly.

Great feasts and generous hospitality accompanied the potlatch, and the efforts of the kin group of the host were exerted to maximize the generosity.

Eliot Warburton's "The Crescent and the Cross," published in 1844, had anticipated this: "A brace of pistols in one's girdle, and... hippopotamus-whip in one's hand, does more in the East towards the promotion of courtesy, good-humour, and good fellowship, than all the smiles and eloquence that ever were exerted".

Well, there weren't — and aren't — that many pulp-mill towns in Maine, but those there were exerted an outsized pull on the surrounding landscape, whether in the form of the carpet of boomed logs that covered the flooded rivers in spring or the overloaded pulp trucks careening dangerously down narrow forest roads.

That office, which began in 1801, was first an appendage of the Home Office and the Board of Trade, but by the 1850s it had become a separate department with a growing staff and a continuing policy; it was the means by which discipline and pressure were exerted on the colonial governments when such action was considered necessary.

Efforts were exerted to know the reasons behind this phenomenon through petrography and capillary pressure.

Both men, it seemed, were exerting themselves.

Civil society organisations were heard to complain of the excessive influence multinationals were exerting.

I had heard from my contacts that warlords, independent of the government, were exerting their influence.

Little control was exerted over interrogations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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