Word: exertion
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...such requests are granted; it is always possible, however, to prevent speeches on undesirable subjects by refusing the necessary authorization. Limitations which have been laid down in this way have served only to drive the agitators to secret meetings, where by posing as martyrs, they have been able to exert a far more dangerous influence than they could by speaking in the open...
...share to the full the fervent hope and prayer of the Archbishops, Bishops and clergy for the success of the Disarmament Conference at Geneva. I am confident that my governments throughout the British Commonwealth will exert themselves to the uttermost to secure the largest possible measure of general disarmament, and their endeavors will be greatly assisted by your wholehearted support and prayers. I pray that Divine guidance may be with those who, in these anxious days, bear the great responsibility of directing the affairs of our own and of other nations...
...been largely due to the conversion of foreign bank balances and bill holdings here into gold. The effect is to strengthen rather than to effect our creditor position, which is the basis of our pull on the world's gold. Consequently, we must either develop an import balance or exert a disastrous attraction upon the world's gold supply whenever we fail to lend abroad on a large scale...
Dean Pound of the Law School in his report to the President states one of the real dangers inherent in the modern study of law. This lies in the tendency to exert pressure to "set students at premature so-called research" before they have acquired the information and mastery of legal technique required for any genuine and fruitful investigation. It is a danger which is equally applicable to other branches of learning where men are rushed into research for which they are not qualified...
...take at least a fixed number of courses in his subject; and when all men were required to do so the question was naturally presented of extending such an examination to all, one of the objects being to place men with intellectual capacity, but without sufficient stimulus to exert it, in a position where, having to pass for graduation a general examination on their field of work, they would be tempted to do it with distinction--a result now in large measure attained. The examination involved the use of tutors to cover the vacant spaces between courses, and to correlate...