Sentence examples for exactions of from inspiring English sources

"Society," as I was learning to call it, and the exactions of Mr. Responsible.

The exactions of this treaty are more than the German people can bear.

Tens of thousands of people perished in his ceaseless military campaigns, and the exactions of his tax gatherers ruined the country's economy.

However, the Florida Supreme Court sided with the government, holding that the Fifth Amendment's anti-extortion rule prohibits only outrageous exactions of land, not money.

"I hate to paint portraits!... Youth can better stand the exactions of a personal kind that are inseparable from portraiture," John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) confided late in life to the artist Walter Tittle.

The toiling peasant, freed from the brutal exactions of native tax collectors, would be able to break through a cycle of subsistence, and produce crops (like raw cotton) actually demanded by British manufacturers and consumers.

Extortion, the unlawful exaction of money or property through intimidation.

The relationships that the Ndebele established with groups beyond their immediate settlement ranged from friendly alliances to the regular exaction of tribute and random raiding.

They stated that "from the moment migrant workers begin the process of seeking work in Qatar, they are drawn into a highly exploitative system that facilitates the exaction of forced labour by their employers".

Under such a system, the state is viewed as the entity wronged by the crime, and the exaction of punishment by individuals acting on their own behalf (as in cases of lynching) is illegal.

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.