Sentence examples for extracting tribute from inspiring English sources

But a mobile-first strategy will put startups and established companies alike – including news organizations – under the thumb of an industry that will, sooner than later, be extracting tribute from every company that wants to do business on the mobile internet.

There is no article "the" before "human empire". It is not like the Roman Empire or any other territory-based empire that wields power by extracting tribute from the ruled.

They were pirates, extracting tribute from the coasts of Ireland and one of their kings was Indech mac Dé Domnand (i.e. Indech, son of the goddess Domnu, who ruled over the deep seas).

Consequently, the larger states of this period in southern India, were not able to entirely change their mode of creating wealth from one of extracting tribute payments, which were seldom regular, to that of direct collection of taxes by government officials.

In the original version of his book, The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy, he set out an analysis of the 2008 crisis and its aftermath using the Cretan legend of the minotaur as a metaphor: the "Global Minotaur" was US capitalism centered on Wall Street, extracting tribute from the world after 1971.

The first Arab attacks across the Oxus ranged as far as Shash (Tashkent) and Khwarizm, but they were little more than raids aiming at seizing booty and extracting tribute, and were interrupted by the inter-tribal warfare that broke out in Khurasan during the Second Islamic Civil War (683 692).

The Spanish mandate was to Christianize the indigenous population and to extract tribute for the crown, and violence was often used in order to gain these ends.

Emergent archaic states in pre-contact Hawai'i used a ritual control hierarchy implemented through a system of temples to manage production, extract tribute, and reinforce the legitimacy of the ruling elites.

The "complex and detailed" negotiations were all about presentation, for example inserting conditions about productivity targets, which are no more than window-dressing.Regrettable though it is that car companies extract tribute from grateful governments like this, the sum is tiny compared with the capital investment by BMW.

That set off fears in Europe and the U.S. that Russia was trying to form a gas version of OPEC to extract tribute from EUropean consumers.

The judicial system-police force collusion there was a Mafia-like system whose main purpose was to extract tribute from the poor community making up its jurisdiction, through bogus tickets and mandates for court appearances.