Word: exerts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ballerina, sort of a graceful coat-rack. That is no excuse for laziness, however, especially during his own solos. Brown has considerable strength, but instead of the effortlessness of the great dancer he moved with an air of nonchalance, as though it really wasn't worth his while to exert much energy or to smooth out the rough edges in his technique...
...decide on the composition of a ministerial council -the transition government's Cabinet, in which there is to be a black and a white minister for each of nine portfolios. Black Rhodesians will be watching closely to see to what extent the black ministers are able to exert real authority, since the Rhodesian bureaucracy could be effectively ruled for a long time by the white civil servants who have always run it. The council also faces hard decisions about how to bring about the internal settlement's promises of amnesties for guerrillas, the release of political detainees...
Speaking to a crowd of about 120 people, Harris said, "it lies within the realm of possibility for humans to exert determinant influences over the course of history--it is not biologically determinded, we have cultural choices." He cited the existence of India's sacred cow as a case in point...
...like a game. Just as Egypt's President Anwar Sadat was completing his series of Washington appearances, Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan arrived in the U.S. for his own meetings. Each wanted the U.S. to exert pressure on the other...
...there are many individuals here who perhaps naively believe that Harvard is a community of intelligent adults, all interested in improving the quality of education here and that all members of the Harvard community should exert some influence on such a crucial decision as a revision of general education. No one thinks each freshman should have as much sway as Dean Rosovsky, but there are many who resent their total exclusion, or at least being totally uninformed about what is going...