We hear a lot about how globalisation exerts negative pressures on small cultures to assimilate.
On the other hand, it exerts an upward pressure on prices in India, China and Brazil.
The newspaper did not discuss the enormous attraction that American culture still exerts in China.
Without question is that Churchill Downs now exerts complete control over who qualifies for its signature race.
It also says the "pressure that the pension deficit exerts on the Royal Mail must be eased".
Myanmar's military, however, still exerts extraordinary influence in the country, which is also known as Burma, and Gen.
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Even in a relatively traditional marriage, he says, a property purchase is where the woman exerts her influence.
The Department of Education exerts some control over almost every aspect of the day-to-day affairs of local school districts.
As those examples show, the status quo exerts a magnetic force on choices.
But they believe it is there because of the gravitational pull it exerts.
Local rents will rise as the demolition exerts pressure on the retail sector.
The valley is as close as England gets to full-blown wilderness and it exerts a powerful hold on those who experience it.
Whirlpool exerts scrubbing pressure of up to four pounds per square inch.
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In the end, though, it could be Congress which exerts a far greater influence on the budget numbers than the economic forecasters.
Nicotine actually exerts its effect by mimicking a second neurotransmitter called acetylcholine.
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As a result of his role as an objective guide, the consultant arguably exerts the greatest degree of influence over the investment process.
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They move toward the bowling ball not because it exerts some mysterious attraction but because of the way it curves the trampoline fabric.
Dark matter is invisible, yet its presence is felt by the immense gravitational tug it exerts on stars, galaxies and other cosmic bodies.
Again, using the pyramid imagery, the consultant, at the top of the pyramid exerts the greatest influence over the investment results of the pension.
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Although officially retired, Hyundai's Chung Ju Yung still exerts strong influence on the group's affairs and few of his managers will challenge his authority.
David Koch has acknowledged that the family exerts tight ideological control.
Continues to exerts influence in fashion through media, books and philanthropy.
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Until then, she said, she exerts her power from her writing.
The training is intensely boring, but it conditions every part of the body -- including the mind -- for the pummeling that 26.2 miles exerts on it.
But having fallen out last year with Luis Miquilena, his former political fixer, the president is finding that he no longer exerts unchallenged sway over these institutions.
For one thing, Mr Colaninno exerts his control over Olivetti through a teetering stack of nested stakes in firms that give him just 0.9% of the firm's equity.
The cockroach exerts a morbidly fascinating hold on the imagination.
The Pereda family, like others in the area, exerts itself mightily to build a literal pyramid of salt, only to break it down into sacks of salt for sale.
"Bowie has always been aware of the cultural leverage that fashion exerts, " he adds, contending that Mr. Bowie is at heart a modernist, in the manner of Eliot or Pollock.
The VAT collects taxes efficiently, is difficult to evade, is broad-based, exerts less of a drag on economic growth, and, by the way, is the major source of revenue in Europe.
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