That, of course, was what had made the Bulls champions over the years: the ability to exert their will over other teams that sometimes, on paper at least, seemed to be more talented.
The Visa deal is the latest example of the tight control that sponsors and global event organisers exert over arrangements after paying for sponsorship rights.
But over the past year or so Twitter has looked to exert greater control over its user base as it has introduced advertising on its site.
The currency peg of the Yuan against the dollar, which China has enforced with varying degrees of exactitude over the past few decades, has helped the Chinese government exert greater influence over the growth and contours of its economy.
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Droukdel - isolated and marginalized - struggled to exert control over his southern commanders.
I, for one, never knew that a network could exert control over a game.
The move is being seen as an attempt by Mr Hadi to exert control over the armed forces.
However, the true source of authority at any point in time only uses these structures as conduits for the leaders of the dominant member firms to exert control over weaker firms.
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That a Boston convention center, where MIT number crunchers mingle with and exert influence over traditional scouts, executives and owners, is just a cocoon that will inevitably give rise to a growing stats-oriented sports landscape.
And it was out of this recognition that the narrative of a slim book grew, careful always to make sense, to reflect, to contextualize -- the obvious efforts of a once passive victim to exert agency over an ungovernable act.
The Securities and Exchange Commission was able to exert authority over the brokers only when Richard Whitney, the president of the New York Stock Exchange, had shamed the entire profession by being imprisoned in Sing Sing in 1938 for embezzling money from his partners, his friends, his clients, his clubs, his brother and even his wife.
Over the decades I have observed that pension funds that provide retirement benefits to state workers almost always exert an alarming influence over the reporting of their transgressions at the local level.
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Or will they expect one filmmaker to exert their vision over the entire trilogy?
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If they want, the Saudis can exert considerable influence over prices by reducing supply.
Pakistan helped create the Taliban in the 1990s to try to exert some control over Afghanistan.
One reason is that Yemen's government can exert little control over some of its remote and lawless regions.
These unregulated or poorly regulated investment consultants exert tremendous influence over pension returns.
Because we want to emphasize that we will not allow anybody to exert their control over any part of Iraq.
This year's unanticipated slowdown reinforced what most Asian governments already know: they cannot exert total control over their economic future.
Their counterparts on the left, the Center for American Progress and the Brookings Institution exert significant power over the electoral process.
Federal prosecutors could not resist the urge to exert their authority over a matter that traditionally has been regulated under state law.
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Google controls Android, they build their own hardware through the acquisition of Motorola Mobility, and they exert a pull over the whole ecosystem.
He had tried to exert full control over Iridium's loose confederation of marketing partners, publicly sniping at the competence of its regional distributors.
If we are serious about helping people exert more power over the state, we need to give them the information to do it.
Some observers say their influence is now on the wane, adding that this has allowed the state to exert greater control over the press.
Also, the very clear criteria set forth in the Voters First Act minimizes the potential for special interests to successfully exert undue influence over the process.
But it could also be that the move towards open mobile presents new opportunities for Chinese companies to exert the control over innovation they crave.
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British newspapers have reported that the BP-Rosneft deal has raised concerns in Azerbaijan that the partnership would allow Russia to exert indirect influence over its southern neighbor.
Actuaries and investment consultants exert tremendous influence over the investment performance of pensions since they advise funds regarding projected liabilities and design investment programs intended to address these obligations.
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Lucid dreaming refers to the ability to become aware during a dream that you are in fact, dreaming, and being able to exert some control over what happens in the dream.
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