Sentence examples for large levies of from inspiring English sources

Altogether along with large levies of Italians, Germans, and other foreigners from the annexed territories and satellite states nearly 2,500,000 Frenchmen had been drafted by Napoleon, and at least 1,000,000 of these conscripts never returned, roughly half that number being casualties and the other half imprisoned or missing.

Aggressive policy measures like these will also help accelerate adoption of hybrids and electric vehicles, because there's nothing like facing large levies to spur an upgrade.

Meanwhile, the myriad of yayasans run by Suharto family grew even larger, levying millions of dollars in "donations" from the public and private sectors each year.

The criminal fine is one of the largest levied by the United States against a corporation.

The two fines issued by Italy's competition watchdog are some of the largest levied against the social media company for data misuse, dwarfing the £500,000 fine levied by the British Information Commissioner's Office in September – the maximum that body was able to issue.

THERE have been plenty of large fines levied by American regulators because of dodgy deals done during the financial maelstrom five years ago.

Grappling with large budget deficits, the governor and his fellow Republicans in the state legislature adamantly opposed new levies of any sort to salvage state programs.

As a result, the analytical effort to derive the governing equations is minimized and a large number of Levy-type solution based on low to high order, equivalent single-layer or layerwise theories, can be generated within the same mathematical framework.

Months of warfare, the sacrifice of valuable lives, the levying of large bodies of troops, and the expenditure of considerable sums of money, all seemed to have been in vain.

p9 The contribution of money by North Carolina to this expedition was as large in proportion as her levy of men.

The potential penalty could be one of the largest fines levied by the Financial Services Authority of Britain.