No one tried to exert improper influence, they have said.

He also tried to exert extraordinary control over his images, even how they were presented on the page.

I try to exert my power and it doesn't work.

Or, worse yet, try to exert control over the expedition.

So the influence I was trying to exert had limits.

Here was the second of the two ways in which liberal opinion tried to exert itself.

She had to study the situation as if it were an engineering problem, like trying to exert force in some difficult medium.

Those close to the family say she recoiled when he tried to exert too much influence.

So far, our response has been to try to exert growing diplomatic and political pressure on the Russians.

It was another way for whites to try to exert control over a congregation.