Sentence examples for on levies of from inspiring English sources

The military of Lacedaemonia, Sparta, had traditionally been based on levies of full citizens and perioeci (one of the free non-citizen groups of Lacedaemonia) supported by lightly armed helots.

But most daringly, they want to impose a one-off levy of 1.5% on wealth above €1m ($1.3m).

At a warm-up tournament in Brisbane, Australian bookmakers reported a suspicious amount of money coming in on Harel Levy of Israel, ranked 118th, to defeat No. 70 Michael Llodra of France in straight sets.

The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday levied some of its strongest sanctions in decades against North Korea as punishment for the country's fourth nuclear test, conducted in January, and its launch of a long-range missile the following month.

The idea was to discourage universities from the excessive pricing of fees: Browne proposed a levy of 75% on fees of £12,000, for example.

In their 2010 manifesto, the Liberal Democrats proposed an annual levy of 1% on homes valued above £2 million.

The £2.5bn so-called "raid" on the banks is a levy of around 0.075% of their balance sheets.

The wall of the farmers-general, built in the 1780s to facilitate the levying of duties on imports, represented the extension and the unity of Paris.

The first is threatening to remove the current tax exemption for newspapers, which do not pay the usual levy of 20% on goods and services.

Under the fiscal cliff deal, the estate tax imposes a levy of 40% on inheritances of over $5.2 million.

Councillors are to debate whether to charge a local levy of 8.5% on top of the rate for large outlets.