Sentence examples for it exacted from inspiring English sources

He adds, "This nonviolent incrementalism is clearly praiseworthy; yet in Florida in 2000 it exacted its price".

But when the party was over, and I was back at my hotel, it exacted a price: I couldn't get its interior lights to go off.

The S.S. did not merely torture and execute the perpetrators; it exacted a price from the local population, killing or transporting civilians.

And it exacted the heaviest toll on the state's firefighters since 1988, when five Hackensack firefighters were killed in a collapse during a fire at an auto dealership.

But Bean's hymn to a vanishing craft is somewhat undercut by his ruthlessly unsentimental portrait of the human cost it exacted and of the appalling risks men endured so that others could enjoy a fish supper.

When liberals weren't shrugging their shoulders at how the country had achieved a welfare system that was the envy of most of the rest of Europe, apostles of the free market bridled at the price it exacted in restricting freedom.

Hollywood dangles fame and fortune, but it exacts its pound of flesh.

But as we grind along, it exacts a lasting toll".

And it exacts that toll in about six minutes.

In it, exacting craftsmanship has the chill of the mortician's art.

It exacts no further penalty, and would also probably immunise the president from subsequent prosecutions.