Word: exertion
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...designed to exert pressure on the University to be proactive in women's issues through direct action and external pressure," said Bagneris,leader of the subversion group...
Journalists "have the potential to exert an extraordinary influence on public attitudes toward gays and lesbians," Bennett said. "As a result, they also have a special responsibility to get the facts right...
...games, the Bulls have always begun by taking away what their opponents want to do; by playing brilliant, aggressive defense; and then, when they have done that, when their opponents are floundering because what worked all season long no longer works, the Bulls have slowly and systematically begun to exert their own will. Thus their big games were rarely shoot-outs. Nor were they always artistic, or if they were artistic, it was only for those fans who loved the concept of skilled, highly intelligent players' stealing another team's game in front of a national audience. In these...
According to Nicholas Christenfeld, one of the researchers quoted in a story by The Associated Press, there may be "some psychological factor that can exert its impact cumulatively over the years...At every stage it's a little tiny depressant to be called PIG, or a little tiny boost to your esteem to be called...
...shipper-coolers exert great power over individual growers, Rooks said...