exercise someone's mind

Examples of exercising

exercising

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

A second way in which an opposition party may avoid being rolled is by exercising institutional veto or delay powers with which it is endowed.
The electoral processes of these regimes should be clearly set aside from other processes where governments interfered but without exercising such total control.
In such cases, there is no bar against these individuals exercising volitional control in per forming actions believed by them to be wrong.
The first variable is equal to one if the respondent had been exercising regularly for at least six months and zero otherwise.
In contrast, leaders exercising concentrated power in an autocratic regime are well-placed to seek rents, since few checks exist on their activities.
But such qualifications are evident in the essay itself - the conditions for exercising the right to believe are quite specifically developed.
Accounting, loyalty regulations in asset management and exercising voting rights are each rewarded with 1/3 index points.
As this mode of rhetoric becomes the norm, downward politeness paradoxically becomes a linguistic marker of power, and a tool for exercising that power.
Within the bureaucracy of the multi-tiered health service, there was little prospect of them exercising any real user influence.
Effects of airway obstruction on transmural pulmonary artery pressure in exercising horses.
Relationship of pulmonary arterial pressure to pulmonary hemorrhage in exercising horses.
For some courts, at least, local officials could be given ver y wide latitude when exercising the police power.
These participants may well have gained a sense of control through exercising their capacity to return to work.
Thus, a community who had been exercising unrestricted control over their land historically, was reduced to the status of tenants-at-will.
And to be a visual perceiver is, thus, to be capable of exercising mastery of vision-related rules of sensorimotor contingency.
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