Sentence examples for it was levied from inspiring English sources

It was levied every five years upon trade and business and seems to have become genuinely oppressive.

Russian officials reacted angrily to the verdict, with some suggesting it was levied with an intent to extract a bribe to win the pilots' freedom.

But why then was the charge the same for all customers, seemingly regardless of when it was levied in the span of the policy?

Voters tended to see inheritance tax as uniquely insensitive because it was levied at a time of distress or when "people are suffering most".

By 1925 it was levied on every estate worth more than £100, or around £6,000 in today's terms, although on a sliding scale so that small estates paid little, rising to 40% on the very wealthiest.

All things considered it was a rather odd release, bearing as it did the tone of objection to a punishment not yet levied.This morning in Washington, it was levied.

When the US Justice Department announced last August that it was levying a $17 billion penalty against Bank of America for its role in bringing on the mid-2000s housing crisis, pundits said the sheer size of the fine would make all banks take notice.

IN A first for a major North American airline, Air Canada has dropped the C$25 $244) fee it was levying on passengers checking in a second piece of luggage.

So when the judge forced the S.E.C. to increase the $500 million fine it was levying against the firm to $750 million, he also demanded that the money be paid out to the company's shareholders, rather than to the agency.

It is levied without any recognition of the offender's income, nor of proportionality or fairness.

There's a price to pay for the swept-back lines, and it is levied mainly in the headroom.