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Shouldn't Congress exert influence over the drug companies, and not the other way around?

He would have to try to find some way to exert influence.

America would have to exert her influence in other ways, but it could be done.

She was not using the power, but sometimes even such willing could exert an influence.

It is possible he could exert a strong influence from a distance.

Under these conditions, interest groups can quite easily exert an influence and win their case.

For example, fields of color exert influence on each other.

For the first time it exerted an important influence on French political life.

This report does exert an influence, but we have to understand that the political responsibility of the future is our own.

So far he had not tried to exert his influence over the doctors who made the decisions.