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The people that would have to exert pressure on the Justice Department, or the Interior Department, that’s Congress.

A systematic way of organizing them and the forces that they exerted seemed a pathway to describing the basic structure and behavior of the universe.

Pack has become notorious among journalists at Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and other agencies under his purview for his efforts to exert control over their work.

Just like a finger pushing on a top, that air exerts a force on the spin axis of the ball.

He exerted similar energies to win from a reluctant Congress the Panama Canal treaties, which Alter says avoided a major war in Central America.

Archrival India has money to throw around, and Iran and Russia are also exerting influence in the region.

Malakhov says there are criminals who have joined the rebel ranks and are exerting influence with their new positions.

Pre-combination therapies, AIDS was still exerting its decimating effect, with all the extra bigotry around that.

You must work standing up, bending over, and exerting yourself most or all of the time.

But it does matter very much if retirees are going to be living longer and exerting a greater burden on current workers.

The powerful influence which Madame Roland was thus exerting could not be concealed.

His ears told him that the dog was holding his own—exerting all his power and neither gaining nor losing.

Jim and Grundy each seized an oar, and, exerting their strength, they were soon clear of the wreck.

By exerting myself to persevere for about a month, I was enabled to feel perfectly resigned.

This was from sheer exhaustion, caused by exerting themselves far beyond their natural strength.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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