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Exacted

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Past of exact

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Revenge will be exacted on 5 June when Ireland goes to the polls in the European and local government elections as well as a crucial byelection in Dublin Central.

But the army, which exacted a bloody revenge for that attack, considers this unlikely.

But within hours, Palestinians had exacted vengeance.

Third, Colombia's internal conflicts exacted a mounting financial toll.Descent to recessionAll these imbalances pushed Colombia first towards slower growth and rising unemployment from 1996 onwards, and then, in 1998-99, inthethe novel experience of deep recession.

ITV Digital, a joint venture between Mr Green's Carlton and Granada, managed to lose £1 billion ($1.6 billion) before the shareholders exacted their revenge.

This paucity of arms proved deadly to scores of fighters in the face of an all-out army assault on the village of Tremseh, near Hama, on July 12th, which left as many as 200 dead.Even with meagre means the FSA has itself exacted a rising toll.

After all, if the mayor became president, Mr Yeltsin and his friends could face severe retribution, which might be exacted in court, among other places.But not all the current rumours and theories fit neatly into a Yeltsinites-v-Luzhkovites pattern.

But Mr Sarkozy exacted a price for his help.

By the end of May, the mission was signing up its first corporate partners.Surprisingly, these warp-speed political successes have not yet exacted much political cost.

Writing that reveals the price exacted by such lust is rarer still.

Surveillance is high-tech and violence is exacted in prisons, away from the public view.

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