Sentence examples for exacted from an from inspiring English sources

Except for what Josephus calls the "tremendous oaths" exacted from an initiate joining the order, they refuse to swear any oath, saying that "one who is not believed without an appeal to God stands condemned already," and "any word of theirs," he says, "had more force than an oath".

It is the biggest penalty the commission has yet exacted from a specific industry.

In this early play, Shakespeare already had begun to observe the terrible price exacted from a society ruled by male ambition and marked by the disparagement of women and of women's moral force.

There probably shouldn't be too much joy exacted from a win against the Edmonton Oilers, but the mood was understandably lighter in the Kings' dressing room after a 5-2 win Sunday.

If the defendants exacted from them an unlawful charge, the exaction was a tort, for which the plaintiffs were entitled, as for other torts, to compensation from the wrongdoer.

Seeking to protect itself against attack from the south, Russia, after defeating the Turks in 1833, exacted from them an agreement to close the straits to warships of non-Black Sea powers at Russia's request (the Treaty of Hünkâr İskelesi).

The largest toll was exacted from Cattaro, with an intensity of 8 EMS98, and 250 300 people dead in a town of approximately 1300 inhabitants.

By contrast, "42" is made with the confidence of sixty-five years of progress; it focusses on the price that Robinson's symbolic role exacted from him as an individual.

Therefore, the total amount exacted from interstate commerce under a gross receipts tax can fluctuate just as the total paid under a property tax.

Suspending privacy concerns has become the tacit 'payment' exacted from consumers for accessing a 'free' service.

Suspending privacy concerns has become the tacit 'payment' exacted from consumers for accessing a 'free' service.