Sentence examples for demand for tribute from inspiring English sources

It's a history play in which Britain defies Rome and its demand for tribute only to succumb to the colonial claim once the home team has won on the battle field.

The demand for tribute caused the ṭāʾifah kings to tax their subjects heavily, producing popular discontent and disturbances and contributing to the weakness that caused the surrender of Toledo.

He spent the rest of his life begging funds for the memorial stone he had promised his crew.The shogunate's hungry demand for tribute, which forced many vessels to set sail after the autumn rice harvest, no doubt increased the number of sea-drifters: that there was a word for them, hyoryumin, attests to their number.

The untapped lodes of silver and alluvial deposits of tin and gold provided essential raw materials with which to meet the increasing Assyrian demands for tribute.

They are the descendents of Ligurian fishermen who settled an island further south off the Tunisian coast in the 16th century to hunt for coral until declining stocks and increasing demands for tribute from a Tunisian ruler convinced them in 1738 to take up an offer from the King of Sardinia to transfer to San Pietro.

Excessive Spanish demands for tribute and labour caused a rebellion by the indigenous inhabitants, who attempted to starve out the Spanish.

Due to excessive Spanish demands for tribute the Kaqchikel soon broke the alliance and deserted their capital, which was burned 2 years later by Spanish deserters.

The Kaqchikel Maya initially allied themselves with the Spanish, but soon rebelled against excessive demands for tribute and did not finally surrender until 1530.

In order to resist Tripolitanian demands for increased tribute, the Sardinian king sent a squadron to force Tripoli to a favorable peace treaty.

"The reason for separation of church and state in America," says Weicker, "is because our nation's founders saw the awful toll of demands for religious tribute on taxpayers and tried to do away with such claims in the Constitution and its First Amendment...

Despite his losses, Karamanli remained firm in his demand for ransom and tribute.