Sentence examples for exactions from inspiring English sources

The government has been much encouraged by a rebellion against Maoist exactions, such as forced conscription, in the district of Dailekh, once one of their strongholds.

Those who resist their exactions face fierce retribution.

He saw it as an entity that uses "despotic exactions" (taxes) that sap individual initiative and prosperity across the board.

In one district, Dailekh, where women have led an uprising against Maoist exactions, teachers are on strike and 300 schools are shut.Both sides exploit children.

After a successful attack on Lesbos in 389/8, he sailed south and was killed at Aspendus, where his financial exactions had made him unpopular.

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.

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

But Peter's centralizing reforms and the exactions imposed on the Hetmanate in connection with the Second Northern War appeared to threaten Ukrainian autonomy.

But John Roberts emphasises in his opinion that the court doesn't treat the question of whether the mandate is a penalty or a tax as a word game:In answering that constitutional question, this Court follows a functional approach, "[d]isregarding the designation of the exaction, and viewing its substance and application".

He wrote: "Congress cannot change whether an exaction is a tax or a penalty for  constitutional purposes simply by describing it as one or the other".

The reign of Khri-srong-lde-brtsan (755 797) marked the peak of Tibetan military success, including the exaction of tribute from China and the brief capture of its capital, Chang'an, in 763.