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How much control can one exert on biochemistry and physiology without using various substances?
Brazil and Mexico have enough demographic and economic heft to exert real influence in international affairs.
I am yet to meet a man, in a partnership or otherwise, who doesn't exert total domination of this device.
He was said to have tried to suborn the young king with lavish presents and urged him to exert his authority.
Having given out forms enough to beget activity in human taste, she scants her work that we may go on and exert a creative fancy for ourselves.
Politicians concern themselves predominantly and directly with the malign influence that broadcasting might exert on its audiences.
By contrast, ammonium or its metabolic products exert inhibitory effects on the nitrate assimilatory pathway.
Some muscles are more effective in the rostral airway, whereas others exert their greatest effect in more caudal regions.
Glucocorticoids released during stress also exert profound effects on endocrine function by acting both in the periphery and in the brain.
This would exert further mechanical stress on the pigments of the pastel increasing the likelihood of dislodgement.
Using excessive pressure can damage equipment and exert great stress on air hoses.
The pressure inside the container is the sum of the pressures that each gas would exert if it were present alone.
If the pendulums are moving in opposite directions, however, the forces they exert on the beam cancel each other, and the beam doesn't move.
Indeed, octopuses are frequently observed to exert force on objects with their arms aligned parallel to the line of force.
While well regarded by his contemporaries he did not exert major influence or attract artistic followers.
Clearly, the Italian Renaissance continues to exert a powerful hold on historical imagination.
Reid also emphasizes that kabakas did not exert much control over commerce since Ganda outside the capital traded relatively freely.
The Hox genes exert this influence by their action on the genes controlling the development of these structures.
As missionaries continued to exert their influence, other agents of change accelerated the acculturation of the tribe.
Unless he wants to be treated like an animal, he has to exert his free will for the good.
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To no end did Barrington exert himself to conceal or counteract this frigidity.
Liquids poured upon the surface cannot, owing to the crumby nature of the humus, exert any appreciable hydraulic pressure.
Light and the assimilation processes depending on light exert a favorable influence on cyanogenesis.
Light is shown to exert a direct stimulating action on the pulvinus, independent of photo-synthesis.
It was evident that junkie had a will of his own, and was accustomed to exert it on all occasions.
Consider the silent influence which flowers exert, no less upon the ditcher in the meadow than the lady in the bower.
But seawards, and along the rugged front of the cliffs, grandeur and variety exert their charm.
She knew not how to exert any such will, she could not, she would not exert it.
Only in tumors in which autolysis is active intra vitam does the method exert any effect.
Moreover, she will never again have opportunity to exert influence over me.
She must take care to exert it kindly but seriously now that the old Judge was gone.
Let her exert that power once more, and until she does so do you keep the peace in Rennes.
Being euryphagous, crows exert a stabilizing influence on many kinds of prey and on the biotic community as a whole.
The hard-pressed crew of the blenny responded to it, but they had to exert every nerve and muscle to keep the enemy at bay.
What was the influence, the fascination that strange old Frenchman seemed to exert?
Pooh Bah may be a very able statesman, entitled to exert his legitimate influence.
Does the palate exert some peculiar action on the ingesta, so as to give to each a distinct sapor?
The more a gas is heated, the more pressure it will exert upon the walls of the combustion chamber it confines.
And occasionally the one ideated object was felt to exert an influence over the other.
Enjoy pampering in the day spa, lie back in the open-roofed solarium, or exert yourself in the fitness centre.
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