Thus ended Mac-Mahon's unsuccessful attempt to exert his personal power.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright
I often wonder if, had it been my good fortune to marry, I should have been able to exert the strong guiding influence over my wife that Mac evidently holds over you.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
Civilized communities, however, have always perceived the immense public advantage of the institution of private property, and the right to such property, of whatever kind, really rests in the last analysis on a social justification, and is held subject to a social claim, if any reason occurred to exert it.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae