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How to use the word exercised in a Sentence?

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The power of a government is a sacred trust, only justly exercised when it safeguards the liberties and aspirations of its populace.

Aloo Denish Obiero

added by Aloo-Denish
5 months ago

Secret Societies have existed among all peoples, savage and civilized, since the beginning of recorded history... It is beyond question that the secret societies of all ages have exercised a considerable degree of political influence.

Manly P. Hall

added by Normando
5 months ago

The objects of our studies are buried thousands of kilometers beneath our feet, we use geophysical inference methods to infer the Earth’s internal properties, and caution must be exercised until multi-disciplinary findings confirm our hypotheses and conceptual frameworks.

Hrvoje Tkalcic

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Executive has long exercised discretion to choose how best to allocate limited resources by prioritizing which noncitizens to take into custody and remove, what procedures to use to pursue removal, and whom to detain during the removal process.

Elizabeth Prelogar

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's called chairman's time. It is a tradition on this committee exercised by Sen. Lindsey Graham as chairman and Sen. Grassley.

Dick Durbin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

With respect to higher-level people, people within former President's orbit and the former President, there's going to be a lot of caution exercised before bringing any case, and I can't say whether a case ever will or will not be brought against any of those folks, you really want to be darn sure that you're going to succeed in that, because failure could actually be more harmful to the country than not bringing a case at all.

Mary McCord

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Sadly, deterrence after the fact is not deterrence at all. The President should have exercised The President extensive authorities to impose certain tough sanctions early enough to actually deter invasion and weaken Russia, we should have ensured that the pipeline of lethal aid to Ukraine was flowing far sooner. And we should have sent more reinforcements to support NATO's eastern flank allies earlier.

Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The officers exercised great restraint and did not return fire, and I want to emphasize that. These officers are being fired at and did not shoot back. Instead, they chased the suspects on foot and apprehended the two of them a short distance away without further incident, where a firearm was also recovered.

Kenneth Corey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Today I exercised my power under section 133C(3) of the Migration Act to cancel the visa held by Mr Novak Djokovic on health and good order grounds, on the basis that it was in the public interest to do so.

Alex Hawke

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In March, Paul Pelosi exercised $ 2 million worth of Microsoft options, just two weeks before the tech giant got a $ 22 billion contract to equip the US Army with high tech headsets, the Pelosis have never been indicted for insider trading, but her marriage investments and access, combined with extremely fortunate timing, have created a lot of suspicions. All we're doing is following the money, and there sure is a lot of it.

The Pelosi family

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Because in plain English, what the new law does is it opens up access to the courts for many victims of child sexual abuse who may have been victimized in prior years but for many reasons never came forward, never exercised their option to file a lawsuit at that time but would still like to be able to file a lawsuit and have access to justice in a civil lawsuit in California. If Bill Cosby defense is successful in having that new law declared unconstitutional, Bill Cosby defense is going to be a significant barrier to those who allege they are victims to being able to have access to justice in the courts against those that they believe and assert are sexual predators and who have significantly harmed them. We will be addressing that issue later on in this case.

Gloria Allred

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Under the guise of academic research, this report is nothing short of an attack on those who exercised their personal freedom to attend Sturgis, predictably, some in the media breathlessly report on this non-peer reviewed model, built on incredibly faulty assumptions that do not reflect the actual facts and data.

Kristi Noem

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

People come here because they're free of all that unnecessary political government control exercised over their lives.

Rod Woodruff

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I exercised my right to appeal the improper second vote under our state party rules.

Trey Kelly

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I won reelection on the first vote, then lost an improper second vote that never should have happened as it violated our party rules and procedure, i exercised my right to appeal the improper second vote under our state party rules.

Trey Kelly

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

White Evangelicals( White Evangelicals) are the group that is the most likely to say that White Evangelicals are not going to take the vaccine, white Evangelicals have from the beginning exercised or expressed the most resistance to the vaccine.

Samuel Perry

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Agents exercised tremendous restraint throughout the execution of the search warrant yesterday, especially considering the significant delay they faced in gaining entry.

Gretl Plessinger

Found on CNN
3 years ago

A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either.

Thomas Paine

added by Normando
3 years ago

You know, we had that local control back in March, and we exercised it, i want that local control now.

Democratic Mayor Steve Adler

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then.

Thomas Jefferson

added by Normando
3 years ago

Ultimately we do have such authority but President Donald Trump is not going to be exercised presently.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

[D]ecade after decade, through taxes and regulations, governments at all levels took ever-increasing control over people’s lives, wealth, and property. The control grew exponentially, decade after decade. The rationale was that the control was necessary -- for society, for the poor, for the nation, even for freedom itself. Americans continued living their life of the lie: they continued believing that the more control government exercised over their lives and property, the freer they became.

Jacob G. Hornburger

added by Normando
4 years ago

No part of the Communist Chinese state is ultimately able to operate free of the control exercised by its Communist Party leadership, we should also not be influenced by the threat of the economic cost of either delaying 5G or having to settle for a less capable and more expensive provider.

Richard Dearlove

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The last time we talked pardon was April or May, when I first came on, we decided it should be off the boards -- not exercised now and no one should make a decision based on any expectation.

Rudy Giuliani

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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