Sentence examples for willingness to exert from inspiring English sources

What more has defined Ferguson's style than his willingness to exert himself over the biggest names in the team, and ultimately dispose of them?

Despite the influence of his wife's liberal ideas, he favoured a strong central government and at times exceeded the prime minister and chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, in willingness to exert pressure on the allied German princes.

The new research, published on Tuesday in the Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, looked at the effects of both THC – the drug's main active ingredient – and the non-psychoactive compound cannabidiol, or CBD, on the male lab rats' willingness to exert cognitive effort.

He has been a commissioner whose influence, and willingness to exert it, has been so great that he could be somewhat credibly accused of rigging the 1985 draft so that when he shook hands with Patrick Ewing, that year's top pick, it would be to send him to New York, the league's biggest market.

Cognitive engagement is defined as the students' investment and willingness to exert the necessary efforts for the comprehension and mastering of complex ideas and difficult skills.

Motivation in the work context can be defined as an individual's degree of willingness to exert and maintain an effort towards organizational goals.

The Secretary would do well to follow his own advice and exert a willingness to exercise power in the face of danger to the interests of the United States and the global community.

Furthermore, the willingness of successive governments to exert meaningful influence through planning rules has ebbed and flowed, leaving town centres at a potential crossroads.

We define an incentive as an available means applied with the intention to influence the willingness of physicians and nurses to exert and maintain an effort towards attaining organizational goals.

That is, respondent characteristics that we would expect to exert influence here – one's political views and view on abortion – were not associated with decreased willingness to donate, and religion had a minimal effect.

Mr. Bush made clear his willingness to use the diplomatic influence of the United States in an effort to transform some of Africa's worst battlegrounds, including Liberia, Sudan and Congo, but he suggested that he would not seek to exert power unilaterally.