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    1. At the extreme points of the twisting movement you can exert a slight pressure to enhance the value of this limbering exercise


    2. can exert an astonishingly powerful influence over the


    3. It is my experience that trapped emotions can exert


    4. A plentiful subsistence increases the bodily strength of the labourer, and the comfortable hope of bettering his condition, and of ending his days, perhaps, in ease and plenty, animates him to exert that strength to the utmost


    5. The poor, in order to obtain food, exert themselves to gratify those fancies of the rich ; and to obtain it more certainly, they vie with one another in the cheapness and perfection of their work


    6. We already know that parents exert a strong influence on their children’s personality


    7. It is this effort, protected by law, and allowed by liberty to exert itself in the manner that is most advantageous, which has maintained the progress of England towards opulence and improvement in almost all former times, and which, it is to be hoped, will do so in all future times


    8. On the contrary, when they are secure of enjoying the fruits of their industry, they naturally exert it to better their condition, and to acquire not only the necessaries, but the conveniencies and elegancies of life


    9. He could feel the pent-up energy under him as she moved and he urged her on to a slow trot, not wanting to exert her too soon


    10. The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle, that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions, with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations: though the effect of those obstructions is always, more or less, either to encroach upon its freedom, or to diminish its security

    11. This is where you must exert your


    12. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects, too, are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention, in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur


    13. In such societies, the varied occupations of every man oblige every man to exert his capacity, and to invent expedients for removing difficulties which are continually occurring


    14. The crack may also have been caused by a passing celestial body, of enough mass to exert a gravitational effect on the Earth, that could have caused contact between rock layers, moving at different speeds


    15. The rejection of this simple (truth), however, must inevitably ―reassert itself and exert greater wonder than that which was previously understood


    16. We’ll take it slowly; the more we exert ourselves, the worse it will be in the end if lady Luck keeps running out on us,” Amonas said while plowing on ahead working his knife in one hand, hacking away any lush growths that proved to be obstacles in his path


    17. The Snaggle knew he didn’t need to exert himself


    18. laughing, just to hear the man exert one more chuckle


    19. There are probably many other indications where the wisdom of the ages complements modern discoveries, but suffice it to say that together they, science and religion, would exert a far stronger influence on the concerns of Man than they do today, separated as they are, into selfishly disposed, unforgiving competitors


    20. Unfortunately, as I look back, he did exert enormous power over me, didn‘t he?

    21. ” The Left Wing has always been infatuated with dictators, from FDR’s Brain Trust, the members of which visited Stalin’s Russia and Mussolini’s Italy, up to modern-day liberals, who adulate Castro, Ortega, and Chaves for the power and control they exert over their people


    22. forces they had allowed the outcast beings to exert upon


    23. They exert pressure on the fringes of campaigns,


    24. 5 In a utopia, there will be no impetus to innovate; on the contrary, vested interests will exert a strong and continuous force in favor of the status quo


    25. Because I was interested to see what influence the Jewish Left might exert by means of non-profit organizations, I ran an experiment


    26. “Look, Nemia, I dearly love Talia, but I am not blind to the fact that every single elven female is beautiful! Now a man expects that he will have to exert a certain measure of willpower to resist the allure of other attractive girls after he gets married


    27. “So you are saying that it’s not fair for you to have to exert so much willpower to resist the allure of your mother-in-law? Oh, Mark, that is so cute!”


    28. “I expressed my desire for him, and he said that it wasn’t fair that he should have to exert willpower to resist the allure of his mother-in-law


    29. must exert yourselves beyond what you have ever felt you could do in the past, because


    30. The law and the prophets were until John; and after that the Kingdom of God is preached and all press to enter it and those who exert them- 7 selves snatch it away

    31. When ascending, I am certain he holds back the cord, requiring me to exert more effort


    32. positions, they are among the top leaders in the medical community and exert


    33. The men seemed to always exert so much effort during their fighting, but to her it seemed so easy


    34. bodies and can exert a force on the blood’s ions or electrolytes 27


    35. bodies of the mother – will exert its influence as magma is highly responsive


    36. I wouldn’t even turn it on for fear that the baby would hear the violence and the commercials trying to exert an early influence on her


    37. Loss for itself, but we will exert ourselves to avoid that


    38. Exert thy will, but consciously; make choices, also consciously, observe thy thinking—keep it high—


    39. By occasionally using the threat of being laid off he knew he could exert his power over the newcomer


    40. should be prepared to exert ourselves as wel and not to expect everything from them

    41. “Well, with artha having become the visible measure of human worth,” continued the swamiji with a sense of sadness, “man began to exert himself at acquiring wealth


    42. It was in that altered station, far removed from the cosmic bosom that an intense centripetal force would have come to exert on the sun and its planets in their nebulous state


    43. It is then that parents and peers exert the greatest pressure for gender role adherence


    44. power he can exert, the more potent he is judged and feels himself to be


    45. The love life of a wise home and the loyal devotion of true religion exert a profound reciprocal influence upon each other


    46. David knew they were determined to destroy the Master, and he was about convinced that Jesus would neither exert his divine power to save himself nor permit his followers to employ force in his defense


    47. 3 Judas could not quite believe that the mighty works of the Master had been wrought by the power of the prince of devils, but he was now fully convinced that Jesus would not exert his power in self-aggrandizement; he was at last convinced that Jesus would allow himself to be destroyed by the Jewish rulers, and he could not endure the humiliating thought of being identified with a movement of defeat


    48. They can read minds, and have the ability to hypnotize and exert control over people who look them in the eyes


    49. By the end of the 1980s, the GPL was beginning to exert a


    50. and practice, will, thus believing, at once begin to exert









































    1. he would break her into a thousand pieces if he exerted any force upon her frail form


    2. He leaned forward and kissed the limpid skin of her neck gently, afraid that he would break her into a thousand pieces if he exerted any force upon her frail form


    3. This kind of lust for power that is exerted by the principalities and powers is the very thing that jerks and manipulates the nations


    4. exerted beyond this borough’s limits


    5. Pressure is exerted


    6. Desa and Marcue each gave a tug on a harness at the same time, but that was more symbolic than any percentage of the effort they exerted


    7. As the efficacy of human industry, in increasing the quantity either of wool or of raw hides, is limited, so far as it depends upon the produce of the country where it is exerted ; so it is uncertain so far as it depends upon the produce of other countries


    8. Their own distress, of which this prudent and necessary reserve of the banks was, no doubt, the immediate occasion, they called the distress of the country ; and this distress of the country, they said, was altogether owing to the ignorance, pusillanimity, and bad conduct of the banks, which did not give a sufficiently liberal aid to the spirited undertakings of those who exerted themselves in order to beautify, improve, and enrich the country


    9. The capital of the country remaining the same, the demand for labour will likewise be the same, or very nearly the same, though it may be exerted in different places, and for different occupations


    10. 34 The mist on the Earth may have been caused by pressure that was exerted on water inside the Earth, by the crust, or parts of the mantle as well, through gravity - depending on where the water under the Earth, locked up in the “storehouses” of the “fountains of the deep”- was located exactly

    11. We know that the inverse square law is valid in gravitational force calculations, which means that if you decrease the distance between two objects under gravitational influence by 4 or it becomes 1/4 of the previous distance, the gravitational force that is exerted between the objects will increase by a factor of 16


    12. If we keep these possibilities in mind, we could reach a point of equilibrium where water could be suspended above the Earth’s atmosphere: If a spherical layer of water’s distance from the Earth was such, that the force exerted on it through the Earth’s gravity equalled the repelling force of a strong enough magnetic field that repelled the water with as much force, we would have a favourable result and water would be able to exist in a suspended condition above the atmosphere


    13. A sudden contact between the outer and inner rock layers could have exerted enough breaking force on sections of the crust above the contact point, to cause it to tear or a rupture in the crust to occur


    14. We know that while the subterranean water layer existed, the Earth’s magnetic field was strong enough to counteract the gravitational pull that was exerted on the water, suspended above the atmosphere


    15. This layer of water above the atmosphere ( under a gravitational pull that would now be stronger than the force exerted by the electro-magnetic field) would have rained down on the Earth adding to the subterranean water, which was released onto the surface, resulting in a massive deluge that would have covered the entire planet


    16. Petty politicians have used the war for their own purposes, thimbleriggers have not been idle; but to the close observer it was evident that the war was a war of the people, the will of the multitude, inflamed perhaps by much exaggeration and misrepresentation, but nevertheless exerted for a just purpose when unvarnished facts stand forth


    17. He held on to the edge of his desk, head buzzing, easing himself upright in the chair as Gonzalez exerted more pressure


    18. A small clearing had occurred when several trees had fallen, and Colling exerted a burst of energy when he entered the open ground, but then he stumbled, barely recovered his balance, and stumbled again, going down on his knees


    19. Much effort has been exerted to help the teen-age mothers go back


    20. replenish a body after it has exerted an enormous amount of energy

    21. The Muslim overlords exerted subtle pressure to gain converts


    22. “I’ll have a bit more power than I’d have on a usual day, if I’d neither exerted myself nor charged up at Focus Mountain


    23. The enormous influence which it has exerted on the consciously thinking people of the entire civilized world might be far more lasting than may appear in our time of overestimation of brutal method of force


    24. How real and decided a dominance is exerted by a Ray in the course of its


    25. This young man exerted a great influence in behalf of advanced truth throughout his lifetime and was followed by a son and a grandson who likewise were devotedly loyal to the doctrine of the One God -- the Supreme Ruler of Heaven


    26. These paintings of the Christ have exerted a deleterious influence on youth; the temple merchants would hardly have fled before Jesus if he had been such a man as your artists usually have depicted


    27. In the end, it could be the powerful magnetic thrust the stars would have exerted on each other, that caused their cosmic drift along with their planetary formations in tow


    28. With a snarl he exerted his inhuman strength, and knots and lumps and ropes of thews rose along his massive arms


    29. But without pausing to catch his breath, he exerted all his strength in a mighty wrench that tore the sword from the magnet where it clung


    30. No other single factor exerted such a powerful influence on him, in his final determination to forsake Jesus and his fellow apostles, as a certain episode which occurred just as Jesus reached the gate of the city: A prominent Sadducee (a friend of Judas's family) rushed up to him in a spirit of gleeful ridicule and, slapping him on the back, said: "Why so troubled of countenance, my good friend; cheer up and join us all while we acclaim this Jesus of Nazareth the king of the Jews as he rides through the gates of Jerusalem seated on an ass

    31. Thrusting his dagger-point into the crack, Conan exerted leverage with a corded forearm


    32. He exerted all his strength, his feet straining against the floor, the veins knotting in his temples


    33. The wind died down and everything around them became a wall of silence; a quiet so complete that it exerted a strange pressure on Dave’s inner ears


    34. I gritted my teeth and hold on as I exerted all my strength to load them


    35. The general populace will be advised of your history and the control you have exerted on world events to date


    36. "The Statement on Family suggested more control could be exerted on people if the family base was eroded


    37. He stood up and exerted all of his honoi; a shockwave of blue energy that toppled over Stralin, pushing outwards in a continuous pulse, shaking the ground


    38. The first year of life shaped the body of the puppy , the load exerted on the


    39. If you watched the extras on the DVD, you saw that Ron Howard, who has been responsible for some outstanding work in cinema, exerted his energies to make 200


    40. Peter exerted pressure on the area indicated by the

    41. Falun Gong had exerted negative impact on Ukraine's relationship


    42. Actually, had the Arab countries nearby exerted a bit more control in the late 1980s, Iraq would never have even thought about taking action against one of its neighbors


    43. strength exerted I opened the door only to find a beautiful Kiev


    44. I spent the next couple of days at mothers side accompanied by Gled and my nephew who was a bundle of energy but who somehow sensed that he had to be gentle around his grandmother, Jodas came by twice a day to keep us up to date on Coatl, he was still torturing the priests and getting more inventive every day, one priest being pulled apart by tying, in series, an assembly of round blocks to each arm and leg, when the loose end of the rope was pulled, the force exerted, easily separated the selected limb from the torso, the five priests Coatl considered the ringleaders were still alive, although in Jodas’s opinion they could no longer be considered human, just lumps of meat that had a pulse, Tezcat had been totally skinned and somehow had been kept alive, he had screamed himself into the realm of the insane, I thought that even this place would not offer him refuge, because I suspected that Coatl had arrived there before him


    45. Churchill exerted pressure on the Foreign Office to send a favourable reply: 'All possible consideration should be given to this very faithful and courageous statesman


    46. water, almost without any effort what so ever exerted by me


    47. Nonetheless, the Maynwarings exerted considerable influence on the


    48. Others are ideas that, in my opinion, should have never left the office of their authors or owe their existence to beliefs in incorrect technical concepts, or even to political pressures exerted to give juicy contracts to production plants situated in some congressman’s district


    49. If you are wearing shoes with heels, then the force exerted is at


    50. The droid kept banging on the canopy as Saddlebrook exerted himself to unfasten the seat belt below him, and a few moments later, he held the object in his hand









































    1. He could barely see through the streams of water running across his horn-rimmed, circular, bottle glasses, and to look at him dripping and sodden in brown tweed and corduroy waistcoat, as thin as a rake and far too short to be a policeman, you would think him incapable of exerting the slightest force upon fresh air


    2. "That sensor would detect an exothermic life form exerting enough energy to subdue Alan and the two women he was with," Alfred told her


    3. was exerting a very strong subconscious affect and was


    4. Harry was becoming well-informed, but more importantly to him, Kaitlyn was exerting herself beyond her habitual passive nature and carrying Chloe along in her train


    5. Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command


    6. What those lectures shall be, must still depend upon the diligence of the teacher ; and that diligence is likely to be proportioned to the motives which he has for exerting it


    7. It corrupts even the activity of his body, and renders him incapable of exerting his strength with vigour and perseverance in any other employment, than that to which he has been bred


    8. He intervened on their behalf several times, exerting himself with the Roman authorities


    9. With line and pole crews exerting continuous pressure, the big barge was brought into its targeted mooring


    10. With line and pole crews exerting

    11. Not often will an older man of Andrew's type be observed exerting such a profound influence over a younger and talented brother


    12. The Cimmerian grasped it with both hands, and with legs braced and the muscles standing out on his arms and back in straining knots, he heaved it above his head and cast it from him, exerting every ounce of nerve and sinew


    13. and others were exerting a major influence on the millennia to come


    14. Exerting confidence in Christ’s presence will embolden you for your spiritual revolution


    15. grip he was exerting on the weapon


    16. The United States would remain on the defensive against Japan while exerting every effort to defeat Germany and of course Italy


    17. Exerting his control of the Communist Bloc countries, Stalin severed ties with the west


    18. Suddenly, a flash of bright white light engulfed the falling crates which instantly vanished, and a fraction of a second later the Ship abruptly slowed down as the gravity of the newly emerged black hole instantly began exerting its force


    19. over exerting themselves on machines or at the health club and


    20. · Remember to stay relaxed and open, only exerting energy where it is needed

    21. Before beginning, be sure you are capable of moderately to maximally exerting your body without incurring injury


    22. IT! Even as a child, the whole idea of exerting so


    23. neighbours asked my mother why she was exerting herself


    24. Exerting control on the wild senses and disciplining them into


    25. stones and they are incredibly versatile each exerting its energy at


    26. His hand continued to open slowly but surely, as if there were some great, unseen force exerting its strong and steady pressure


    27. His face became red and his temperature certainly rose due to the great pressure he was exerting


    28. His face congested and his temperature assuredly rose due to the great effort he was exerting in squeezing his fist closed


    29. you wrestle with your kids? It can be anything where you are exerting


    30. I stayed near them until night fall, exerting the full will of my power

    31. Tussie tried to make amends for having obstructed her plans by exerting himself to the utmost to entertain the children as far as decorum allowed


    32. And neither did my heart rise up into my mouth because my rotund midriff was exerting a severe downward pull upon the rest of my body


    33. Most religious “people” usually assume that in order to cognize God they must definitely overcome all earthly passions and some of them do it so passionately that they don’t notice that in the course of time THIS very feature of their character, thinking and feeling turns into a real passion! My advice is: there is no use to stoically, and sometimes tragically, try to overcome some of your passions (lower Desires), exerting every effort not in practicing spirituality, but only in strengthening lower Aspects of ARGLLAAMUNI — obstinacy, silly physical endurance, recklessness, peevishness, impudence; try just to ACCEPT them, then UNDERSTAND, and after this start to gradually CHANGE them, turning the difficult process of getting rid of something into a pleasant enjoyment of something (for example, of the very process of creativity, conscious correction of yourself according to the highest Formo-Image), because your resistance only strengthens that of which you want to get rid


    34. What Icke saw demonstrates how these dead things hide inside the auras of living people and only reveal themselves when they want to… exerting their presence unpredictably at odd times, in momentary flashes, and instantly reverting back to an undetectable passive presence which is not noticed by the person they secretly hide inside all the time


    35. She was glad for whatever control the older man was exerting because all she saw in the younger man’s eyes was a naked fury that threatened to be unleashed on her without a moment’s notice


    36. Realising that exerting any form of discipline over the paper was going to prove impossible, he allowed most of it its freedom whilst keeping hold only of the small section containing the relevant article – this he scanned quickly, to get the gist: '…the Seeker has arrived… government sources have expressed considerable satisfaction at the news… great things expected over the coming days and weeks… side-zip shoes in the latest Italian style…' All in all it was essentially the same as the fax, nothing really new


    37. For there is no conception of a future state more awful and more probable as a retribution to powerful minds who have spent their lifetime in exerting ruinous influence upon their fellow-men, than that they should be compelled to 'remember’ the whole sum of evil which they have wrought in the universe, where no 'drop of water will be given to cool the tongue’ which once poured forth, perhaps, its eloquent blasphemies, or philosophy falsely so called, or polluting verses, against the sovereignty of God,—and then suffer 'everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His power


    38. He was exerting a powerful force on the arms of the


    39. At last one night Anselmo heard footsteps in Leonela's room, and on trying to enter to see who it was, he found that the door was held against him, which made him all the more determined to open it; and exerting his strength he forced it open, and entered the room in time to see a man leaping through the window into the street


    40. the soporific draught, for, instead of exerting my strength, I sunk without motion, though not without sense, on his shoulder, my limbs refusing to obey my will

    41. The stolidity with which I received these instructions was, no doubt, rather exasperating: for they were delivered in perfect sincerity; but I believed a person who could plan the turning of her fits of passion to account, beforehand, might, by exerting her will, manage to control herself tolerably, even while under their influence; and I did not wish to


    42. member, now exerting itself with a kind of native rage, he breaks in,


    43. For near a minute they stood looking one another in the eye, and gradually exerting the power of their muscles for the mastery


    44. Exerting his renovated powers to their utmost, he was yet filling the arches of the cave with long and full tones, when a yell burst into the air without, that instantly stilled his pious strains, choking his voice suddenly, as though his heart had literally bounded into the passage of his throat


    45. “Exerting a thirst for regional dominance


    46. His eyes, which were of a peculiarly light, watery gray, seemed to always retain that far-away, introspective look which I had only observed in Sherlock's when he was exerting his full powers


    47. He had fought, talked, suffered mentally and physically, exerting his mind and body for the last forty-eight hours without intermission


    48. Garth had failed in the building business, which he had unfortunately added to his other avocations of surveyor, valuer, and agent, had conducted that business for a time entirely for the benefit of his assignees, and had been living narrowly, exerting himself to the utmost that he might after all pay twenty shillings in the pound


    49. Even great institutional holders who know the law and accounting principles and are sophisticated investors have been lax in exerting their power and have generally more often sold the shares than spoken up or done anything for the business


    50. This suit was exerting an adverse effect upon the market value of the notes out of all proportion to its merits, a statement that is demonstrable from the fact that the litigation could have been settled by payment of a relatively small amount















    1. It also exerts a healthy pressure on the kidneys, thereby correcting any disorders in their function


    2. to understand that the subconscious mind exerts an


    3. He naturally, therefore, exerts his invention to find out a way of paying his foreign debts, rather by the exportation of commodities, than by that of gold and silver


    4. · Study those desires in your life that control you, and strive to release yourself from anything artificial that exerts power over you: drugs, alcohol, negative habits, fears – anything that causes you to lose power


    5. Matter resists acceleration not because it possesses some innate thing called mass, but because the zero point field exerts a force whenever acceleration takes place


    6. In Quaker terms homophobia is both a man made construct that exerts will on


    7. In other words, a bullet fired from the front of a gun, exerts the same, and equal force from the back of a gun


    8. 9 And it is in this business of facing failure and adjusting to defeat that the far-reaching vision of religion exerts its supreme influence


    9. It is not for us to disclose because of possible raising of standards in terms of secrecy and the control it exerts over the people of the United States


    10. You go into the sea, the further down, you go the greater the pressure of that environment on you, so the atmosphere naturally exerts a pressure on us that affects us, and unless you've got something inside you to be able to withstand it, you'd collapse as well

    11. The compressed air flow running out of a nozzle and expanding outwards exerts reactive pressure on the nozzle’s bottom


    12. 12 The compressed air flow running out of a nozzle and expanding outwards exerts


    13. He is a superior man who exerts inner (rather than external) control


    14. butcher’s broom is useful for various diseases of veins, it also exerts effects that are


    15. Experimental animal studies have shown that a zinc salt of the amino acid carnosine exerts significant protection against ulcer formation and promotes the healing of existing


    16. The social entity, co-evolving and manifesting in the individual's expression and accommodations, exerts a self-interested gravity upon the physical and virtual evolution of human consciousness, purpose and potential


    17. amounts, but exerts Its right to choose what state It


    18. above all others, by which the teacher of teachers exerts a


    19. It exerts itself more


    20. A drug-intoxicated mind still exerts a gravitational pull on the drunkard but in God-intoxicated state mind becomes the wings of the aspirant and it helps and guides him into the ever widening spiritual horizons

    21. � It exerts all that influence, yet we had little or no idea of where it came from nor even that it was there at all


    22. exerts over large percentages of the population


    23. He isn’t the kind of man to lose anything of his and if he does he exerts a terrible retribution on any that he can find responsible


    24. But if we assume the moderate antiquity of the book of Job we find a clearly-developed idea of an 'Adversary,’ who operates from the air, and even exerts enormous power over the elements in persecuting the saint of the Lord


    25. It is now necessary to consider an argument which exerts more influence than perhaps any other in supporting what are called the secondary senses of death and destruction, and with them the doctrine of eternal misery; I mean that which is derived from certain supposed exclusively moral senses of these terms in the New Testament


    26. One reason is that a story exerts a power beyond the obvious


    27. Note that bond prices do not fluctuate in the same (inverse) proportion as the calculated yields, because their fixed maturity value of 100% exerts a moderating influence


    28. Next, determine what types of power each regulatory entity exerts on the business, such as the ability to regulate the price charged for goods or services or the number of units a business can sell


    29. Consequently, L exerts a great influence on calculation of the criteria based on this distribution


    30. When pollen from a plant of one family is placed on the stigma of a plant of a distinct family, it exerts no more influence than so much inorganic dust

    31. In spring the sun not only exerts an influence through the increased temperature of the air and earth, but its heat passes through ice a foot or more thick, and is reflected from the bottom in shallow water, and so also warms the water and melts the under side of the ice, at the same time that it is melting it more directly above, making it uneven, and causing the air bubbles which it contains to extend themselves upward and downward until it is completely honeycombed, and at last disappears suddenly in a single spring rain


    32. It is impossible to prove, as the defenders of the state claim, that the destruction of the state will lead to a social chaos, mutual rapine, murder, and the destruction of all public institutions, and the return of humanity to barbarism; nor can it be proved, as the opponents of the state claim, that men have already become so wise and good that they do not rob or kill one another, that they prefer peace to hostility, that they will themselves without the aid of the state arrange everything they need, and that therefore the state not only does not contribute to all this, but, on the contrary, under the guise of defending men, exerts a harmful and bestializing influence upon them


    33. Nor can it be proved as the opponents of government maintain that men have already become so wise and good that they will not spoil or murder one another, but will prefer peaceful associations to hostilities; that of their own accord, unaided by the state, they will make all the arrangements that they need, and that therefore government, far from being any aid, under show of guarding men exerts a pernicious and brutalizing influence over them


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    Synonyms for "exert"

    exercise exert maintain wield strive labour try endeavour

    "exert" definitions

    put to use


    have and exercise


    make a great effort at a mental or physical task