Sentence examples for which he exerted from inspiring English sources

One area in which he exerted his influence was marketing, where he frequently rejected ideas from Ms. Carney and her team, according to people who worked on the film.

Johnson's political machine was financed by regular payments from the vice industry, over which he exerted complete control; every brothel madam and gambling den owner paid a cut to him.

In addition, Mr. Diamond writes, "Bremer spurned the appeals of a wide range of Iraqis -- including many who were cooperating with us -- and of the United Nations mission to transfer authority quickly to an Iraqi interim government, and he proceeded to reshape Iraq through an occupation that he led, and over which he exerted tight, indeed almost total, control".

When he left his job as chairman of Alcoa, the world's biggest aluminum manufacturer, and became treasury secretary, O'Neill moved from a world in which he exerted near total control over his environment -- and on which he was able to impose his own sense of reality -- to a world in which he was virtually hostage to other people's perceptions of him.

Back in the musical areas in which he exerts greater control, Wells is working with his trio and pursuing a number of more experimental projects.

This is fitting -- the academic is a good modern equivalent of the classical fool: a strong and sometimes wild personality trapped within a larger world that he understands only imperfectly and over which he exerts no control whatsoever.

That face and voice have been everywhere these past couple of weeks, from "60 Minutes" and "Meet the Press" down to the cable shoutfests, upon which he exerts a calming effect.

When the words of McGinley and Harrington were put to him, however, he was forced to confirm the true extent of his influence, and the care with which he had exerted it over players who are used to making their own decisions.

And so, as his performance has spiraled downward, he has focused on areas in which he can exert command.

But he barely uttered a word about the ways in which public policies — policies over which he might exert no small influence — have resulted in the hyper-incarceration of poor black men.

That's also the reason that, even had Mike stayed as editor-in-chief, I can't imagine a world in which he would exert pressure on any TechCrunch writer to take a particular line on a story.