Word: exertions
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...response to Sandel’s critique of the human desire to exert mastery and control over the human body—an argument Sandel dubbed “the hubris objection”—Pinker noted that this type of hubris is commonplace in our society today...
...where settlers started out relatively equal.) Today, there is typically a 25 to 30 percent gap in voter turnout between America’s top and bottom income quintiles and the rich can further enhance their participation with hefty campaign contributions. Put simply, people’s ability to exert influence in the political arena is not unrelated to their economic means...
Israel maintains that the purpose of the barrier is to prevent Palestinian suicide bombers from entering the Jewish state and therefore conforms to the legal definition of “self-defense.” The Palestinian Authority contends that Israel is trying to exert control over lands occupied by Palestinians and to divide the Arab population currently living in the West Bank...
Beyond the undergraduate life committee, the administration ought to consider including undergraduates and recent alums on all five of the planning committees. Students will be primary consumers of the future Allston campus, and while current undergraduates notoriously hold little political power to exert in University-wide decisions, including their perspective on Allston planning would be a prudent move. Undergraduates certainly have valuable perspectives to add to discussions of planning for science and technology and for housing, culture and urban life in Allston—subjects to which two other planning committees are dedicated...
Over the past several decades, the Russian government has made dangerous incursions into Georgian affairs in an effort to keep the central government weak so that it can exert its own leverage, both economically and militarily. Moscow has effectively prevented fomer president Shevardnadze from unifying the country by granting Russian citizenship to entire Georgian states on their shared border; and has been known to cut off the nation’s gas supplies in the middle of winter for political reasons when Shevardnadze did not cooperate. And if the economic pressure didn’t get the message across...