Word: exertion
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...exert pressure on Middle South to install sulfur dioxide controls on the plant...
...power, the papers have been shuffling in University Hall. By delegating authority right, left and center, Rosovsky is attempting to unite the Faculty not with a diplomatic strong-arm (a la Dunlop) but with a strong-arm of diplomacy. Whereas Dunlop worked from his University Hall roost to exert his power on administrators and professors, his successor is distributing his power among the Administration and the Faculty, in an effort to bring them together. Although this style of authority would seem likely to decrease his power, Rosovsky's influence has in fact grown...
...disputes that divide Israelis and Arabs. According to the terms of the ceasefire, the "appropriate auspices" for such a conference would be the United Nations Security Council. But essentially the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., the two powers that got the warring sides to stop shooting and start talking, will exert the strongest pressure, even if they do not speak in the loudest voice...
Siphan was anxious that Americans exert pressure on the Saigon regime to release its political prisoners, conservatively estimated at 100,000 by the London-based Amnesty International group. Other problems such as the use of chemical defoliants by Saigon forces were not so important, since Siphan was sure that the Provisional Revolutionary Government would be able to overcome them...
...builds their plant they build it in such a way as to minimize the threat which the plant poses to the economic livelihood of rural Arkansas. Consequently, the farmers of Wright, Redfield, Ferda, and Plum Bayou, organized into the ACORN Protect Our Land Association, ask Harvard to exert pressure on Middle South Utilities to do the following things...