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We also exert gravity back on the Earth, but because we are so small, it doesn’t make much of a difference.

He has not changed his view in prison despite the enormous pressure exerted on him by the regime.

Campaigns of various sorts are mounted and pressure exerted on the college leadership to remove that dangerous professor.

After a few years in which Washington has exerted a malign force on demand, it is showing signs of becoming a neutral force.

I wish that Peter Beinart had exerted greater efforts to make Open Zion the type of institution that could survive his departure.

Historically the contradictory pressures exerted by the multiplicity of parties has not been good for Israel.

By the force that the governor exerted in the thrust, he felt that he himself was wounded in the hand.

And for how many noble and philanthropic objects has he not exerted his artistic resources!

Willis founded a new school of reed voicing and exerted an influence that will never die.

The more his kind wife exerted herself to comfort him, the more obstinately he persisted in maintaining his own sombre views.

Since his return from exile, his influence had been generally exerted in favour of the Whig party.