Football, along with other organised sports, came to Sweden in the 1870s and was mainly exercised by gymnastics clubs which exercised most of the sports of the time.

International law is mainly exercised against the weaker nations.

Executive powers are mainly exercised by a Chief Minister and nine ministers, known collectively as the Council of Ministers.

It deals mainly with administrative law matters and exercises the High Court's supervisory jurisdiction over inferior courts and tribunals and other public bodies (exercised mainly through the procedure known as "judicial review").

In British India sub-districts were called as "Thana", which were mainly exercised by the police.

The legislative function is exercised mainly through Parliament which has the power to make laws of general applicability and to grant to other bodies the power to make delegated legislation under authority of an act of parliament.

That pressure was mainly exercised as support for the American abolitionist campaign, with the bazaar becoming the women's way of raising money.

Little girls may be brought up to see power as something exercised mainly by the men in the family, and not a quality that is sought or used much by women.

Althougn Bedford's ministry was afterwards mainly exercised in Manchester and adjacent towns, he also laboured with conspicuous success for a period of three years in each of the towns, Birmingham, West Bromwich, and Derby.

This is mainly exercised when officials break up large parties or other events where alcohol is being consumed and the issuance of chemical tests to every individual is deemed impractical.