exertions in English

noun
1
physical or mental effort.
she was panting with the exertion
2
the application of a force, influence, or quality.
the exertion of authority

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1. They were not exertions.

2. He lay quiet, somnolent after the day's exertions.

3. He needed to relax after the exertions of a busy day at work.

4. Let us redouble our exertions, and strike with united strength while life and power remained.

5. After two days' exertions, it's the arms and hands that seize up, not the legs.

6. In an earlier era , Washington's exertions would have been enough to ignite another long economic expansion.

7. 27 She lay motionless, utterly worn out by her exertions, yet at the same time ominously wide awake.

8. Yet after five years of military exertions, strategies based on targeting a united aggressor have only made the situation worse.

9. The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his everyday conduct. 

10. Throughout the years, Wim Hof has developed special Breathing exertions that keep his body in optimal condition and in complete control

11. As long as the Saints manifest such a disposition, their counsels will be approved of, and their exertions crowned with success.

12. 7 The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his everyday conduct. 

13. 27 The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions,(www.Sentencedict.com) but by his everyday conduct. 

14. The overheating resulted not only from the pilot’s metabolism and exertions but also from aerodynamic heating of the skin of the aircraft, which was radiated into the cabin.

15. Such men are not only true patriots, but are irrefragable proofs that the Chinese are capable of being stirred to the most heroic exertions in following public-spirited leaders.

16. Towards the end of the last century the friars were again established in the dominions of the Negus, chiefly through the exertions of the celebrated Capuchin missionary afterwards known as Cardinal Massaïa.

17. The gap between ideals and Actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others -- this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history

18. Compassed about - Here is another allusion to the Olympic games: the agonistae, or contenders, were often greatly animated by the consideration that the eyes of the principal men of their country were fixed upon them; and by this they were induced to make the most extraordinary exertions

19. Villainy is the matter; Baseness is the matter; deception, fraud, conspiracy, are the matter; and the name of the whole atrocious mass is—HEEP! (David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens) What Baseness! (Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott) The rest was left contingent on the value of my professional exertions; in other and more expressive words, on the Baseness of my nature