Sentence examples for by exactions from inspiring English sources

Krovatin asked what Arum meant by "exactions," since the sanctioning bodies provide championship belts to fighters.

Despite this success, the provinces were increasingly uneasy, for they were oppressed by exactions to cover Nero's extravagant expenditures on his court, new buildings, and gifts to his favourites; the last expenditures alone are said to have amounted to more than two billion sesterces, a sum that was several times the annual cost of the army.

'All restraints by exactions in the form to taxes upon such transportation, or upon acts necessary to its completion, are so many invasions of the exclusive power of Congress to regulate that portion of commerce between the States.' Gloucester Ferry Co. v. Pennsylvania, supra, 114 U. S. 214 (5 S. Ct. 833).

With its economy disrupted, its administration disorganized, its army depleted and demoralized, its factions engaging in civil strife, its peasants enfeebled by excessive exactions, its religious dissenters alienated by persecution, and its authority challenged by a powerful aristocracy, the empire lacked the strength necessary to expel the invaders, and possibly even to survive.

Then, in spite of grave discontent aroused by his exactions in Italy, Octavian declared war not against Antony but against Cleopatra.

A cheap, sure and ready Guide to Health, or a Cure for the Disease called The Doctor, instructing how to prevent being cheated and destroyed by the Exactions and unmerciful usage of ignorant and oppressive Physicians and Apothecaries.

"Evidently, we still have to restore peace in our two regions of the North-West and the South-West, overburdened by secessionist exactions".

The world's Lafontaines cannot understand that overly-exacting exactions extinguish economic innovation and risk-taking.

Enterprises were to be protected by law against arbitrary exactions by their superiors.

The fanciful scheme is to protect the farmer against undue exactions by prescribing the price at which milk disposed of by him at will may be resold! to the caprice of the hour; government by stable laws will pass.

Aligned with Asquith were those who felt that cherished Liberal beliefs were being threatened by such wartime exactions as military conscription, introduced in 1916.