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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of exercise.

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  • Furthermore, the process by which the rights of a patent are exercised is costly, damaging, and net-net ends up wasting, in my estimation, much more energy that could otherwise be put into more essential or meaningful pursuits.

    And the monopoly goes to… | FactoryCity 2009

  • That responsibility must be exercised from the earliest days of a child's education and the, message made clear in numerous different ways thereafter.

    Why Not? 1975

  • This meeting, however, proved abortive when France and Great Britain exercised their veto right to obstruct a resolution calling on

    The Nobel Peace Prize 1961 - Presentation Speech 1961

  • This can be done entirely within the missile itself by gyros, accelerometers, and allied precision equipment, or control can be exercised from the ground by data link, which is a form of radio communication.

    Men and Missiles 1958

  • [38] None of the succeeding holders of the imperial title exercised any authority outside of Germany.

    Early European History Hutton Webster

  • Before his accession it had had not the slightest importance; for the period of his editorship it is doubtful if any review published in English exercised so great an influence, and certainly none ever obtained so large a circulation.

    The Life and Letters of Walter H Page Hendrick, Burton J 1922

  • Philip in her name exercised all the powers of sovereignty, but his reign was very short, for he was suddenly taken ill and died at Burgos,

    History of Holland George Edmundson 1889

  • One Christian grace to be exercised is joy: Count it all joy, v. 2.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

  • Cramdown is a word exercised in the U.S.A. courts.

    MyLinkVault Newest Links 2009

  • In this station the Armenians again exercised his courage and exposed his negligence; and the same rebel, who baffled all his operations, was unhorsed, and almost slain by the vigor of his lance.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

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