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Example sentences for: exertions

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Nor is it simply a chance for any city official to indulge a personal taste for martial law, surrounding himself with a hunky praetorian guard, manly men whose manliness glistens in the light of their boots, burnished to a fine sheen by the sweaty exertions of muscular comrades in arms who--I'm sorry.
The new process greatly minimized the toxicity of the chemical exposure in this process, but introduced new physical hazards including noise and ergonomic stress, such as awkward postures and forceful exertions from carrying and directing the nozzle.
He regrets his having ever attempted distinction and excellence in any way, because the effect of his former exertions now serves only to make his insignificance more vexing to him.