The worsening air pollution has already exacted a significant economic toll, grounding flights, closing highways and keeping tourists at home.
This position has already exacted a heavy price: had there been a more competitive marketplace of ideas, the flawed Washington Consensus might never have become a consensus at all.
China's urbanization — arguably the most expansive and swiftest in history — has already exacted a steep environ-mental price from Tibet, whose rapidly melting glaciers feed the biggest rivers in Asia.
By enabling the rearming of the Assad regime, the Maliki government is responsible for prolonging a conflict that has already exacted a devastating human toll, destabilized Lebanon and is threatening to draw in Turkey and Jordan.
In a memorandum sent to Magistrate Judge James C. Francis IV of Federal District Court in Manhattan, her lawyer, Douglas E. Grover, said she should not be sent to jail because the loss of her job and damage to her reputation had already exacted a heavy toll.
The official would not say what kinds of actions the military is considering, but defended the differential treatment by saying that the FBI had already exacted its punishment on Petraeus, but Broadwell hasn't been punished.
While versions of the bill have cleared key committees in both the House and Senate, Lillis notes that the bank lobby has already exacted its pound of flesh, convincing members of Congress to delay the effective date of the legislation until you guessed it the middle of 2010.
Both are issues of high importance to conservatives and Republican regulars, but have presumably already exacted whatever political punishment they possess on Clinton.
In truth, companies increasingly want to hire only people who already have jobs — ideally, as Cappelli observes, people who have already done the exact job they're applying for.
