Examples of exertion

• Rushing strings and fanfares in the brass compete with the ever more excited and strenuous exertions of the singers.

• I know we are making unparalleled exertions to organise our strength and to put it into the field.

• We believe—in fact, we are convinced—that it is possible for us by our own exertions to win independence.

• We have very little left of it to-day, and we have to depend on our own exertions.

• You could not expect him to work or exert himself if the result of all his exertions was immediately handed over to his creditors.

• I can assure him that, in spite of all our exertions, we are unable to make ends meet.

• We saved ourselves by our exertions in the last war.

• They do not complain of having to pay on further increment value due to exertions not their own.