He was said to have tried to suborn the young king with lavish presents and urged him to exert his authority. |
Brazil and Mexico have enough demographic and economic heft to exert real influence in international affairs. |
No longer can they exert the authority on major occasions that was once their hallmark. |
But, if the people of Washington, D.C., will stand up as citizens and exert their druthers, this nonsense would stop. |
If it was any other person, I would have been offended and annoyed that someone should try and exert such force over me. |
I am yet to meet a man, in a partnership or otherwise, who doesn't exert total domination of this device. |