verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
exercise/exert your authority ( also wield authority formal ) (= use your authority )
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In practice it’s very difficult for the president to exercise his authority.
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He was one of those people who want to wield authority over others.
exert an influence formal (= have an influence )
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Technology exerts a powerful influence over our lives.
exert pressure on sb formal (= put pressure on them )
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They exerted pressure on their colleagues to vote for the change.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
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Many genotoxic cancer treatments may also exert their effect through the enhanced induction of apoptosis.
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Major interest groups can also exert influence through their compliance or noncompliance with the government policy process.
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Similarly, high electrical charges should also exert a gravitational effect towards neutral matter.
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East Anglian volunteers have also exerted international influence in recent years.
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The closely packed neutrons form a degenerate gas and, being fermions, they can also exert a degeneracy pressure.
over
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The power exerted over black and women patients is inevitably a manifestation of larger race, class and gender relations.
■ NOUN
action
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The L-arginine-NO system exerts various biological actions including vascular smooth muscle relaxation and inhibition of platelet aggregation.
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This mechanism apparently exerts a lesser action on transcripts of the deleted genes possibly because they are present in lower concentrations.
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Exactly how sodium restriction exerts its hypotensive action and why in only certain people remains unknown.
authority
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Philip stood helplessly while she talked to the ward sister and exerted her considerable authority to get the doctor called immediately.
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Paquita thought I should exert my authority over her, but I found that difficult.
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He may have to put up with being ordered about by a big brother or sister anxious to exert their authority .
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But they worry that more reforms could be thwarted by a few workers who seem preoccupied with exerting their authority over patients.
control
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Internal control is presumably exerted not only by but for autonomous man.
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His behavior depends upon the control exerted by the social environment.
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Intelligent control exerts influence without appearing to do so.
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His apparatus exerts a conspicuous control on the pigeon, but we must not overlook the control exerted by the pigeon.
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Moreover, were things quite so dreadful that such control needed to be exerted ?
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The emphatic assertion of individual control over health exerted in some of these accounts can be looked at in a wider context.
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Guidance is effective, however, only to the extent that control is exerted .
effect
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What is not known is how the genes exert these effects during development.
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They have exerted a definite deterrent effect on the previous job discrimination experienced by epileptics and other people with medical handicaps.
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Geneticists normally don't know how genes exert their effects on embryos.
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The two hormones exert opposite effects .
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Overall the characteristics of the remuneration scheme were shown to exert more consistent effects than were individuals' personal characteristics.
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But none of the variations exerted a marked effect .
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Many genotoxic cancer treatments may also exert their effect through the enhanced induction of apoptosis.
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Lithium exerts many effects in the body.
effort
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We seem to exert every effort to make the least of the most.
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Total Quality Management can make a significant difference, but all of us need to exert the effort to understand it.
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But we can be sure that Brezhnev will exert every effort to regain the award when he visits Nixon.
force
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This increases the sideways force each person exerts on the bridge as they walk, he says.
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Quite strong forces are exerted on the side of a tall building.
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This closes the positive feedback loop, because the more the bridge sways, the more force people exert to keeping standing.
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Not only do they command force , but they exert a moral appeal as well.
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Weight is the force of gravity exerted on an object.
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Whatever the species, the mechanism by which the force was exerted is likely to be the same, namely hydraulic pressure.
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As the spring compresses so the force which it exerts upwards on the astronaut increases.
government
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A series of uniform regulations would be promulgated to allow the central government to exert overall budget control.
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Gaitskell now knew that there were practical limits to the extent to which the Government could exert control over the industry.
impact
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The unique ideas and images of this book have exerted lasting impact .
influence
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Great disorders had occurred among the children which would not have taken place had proper influence been exerted by the master.
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They were concerned about the implications of what influences were being exerted in their island society.
power
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His lovemaking was different this time, more intense, more assertive as if he was trying to exert some power over her.
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But he exerted all his powers to bring Thomas to submit to Canterbury's primatial authority.
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Even her father couldn't exert that kind of power over her.
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And at least some of the replicators should exert power over their own future.
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It was then a forcing ground for the new classes establishing themselves and exerting their power against the existing feudal order.
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In September, government forces moved into Latakia, a port city where Rifaat exerts power , to confiscate a fortified compound.
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In some unions, officials may then exert position power and give instructions to members or junior officials.
pressure
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These collisions exert forces on the walls which translate into the pressure the gas exerts.
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The economic pressure they could exert on the regimes that resist the masses' demand for democracy is enormous!
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Otherwise, the pressure exerted by the security services, aided by the police, caused much concern.
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This time around no great pressure was exerted by the home team.
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Cervical reintegration is a faster method whereby pressure is exerted on muscles in tension, thus causing them to relax.
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Consequently the effective osmotic pressure that it exerts on biological membranes is far less than its osmotic pressure measured by an osmometer.
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The technique can continually measure how much pressure is being exerted .
■ VERB
continue
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This wage is used to support workers in order that they can continue to exert labour-power week in week out.
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Family stories such as this continue to exert a force on the way we live now.
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They were also effectively administered, since Henry continued to exert the tight control established by his Yorkist predecessors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it was not long before the harsh facts of economic and social life exerted their pressure.
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Dayton is a young Gentleman of talents, with an ambition to exert them.
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Does a team that has to exert itself to get to 38-44 deserve a place at the big table?
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In later poems she is usually shown as treacherous and malicious, exerting a deadly and destructive power over men.
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Much of this was spontaneous, although a number of small syndicalist and Marxist parties were able to exert some influence.
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This time around no great pressure was exerted by the home team.