Sentence examples for one levying from inspiring English sources

That metaphor suggests that such a breakup would make things worse, with two robber barons instead of one levying tolls on those who pass by.

The Government, in substance and effect, asks us to separate the Agricultural Adjustment Act into two statutes, the one levying an excise on processors of certain commodities, the other appropriating the public moneys independently of the first.

That's way too much dependence on one levy.

Corporations without S elections face double taxation, one levied on corporate income and the other on shareholders when they receive dividends.

There have now been a couple of interesting papers suggesting a Pigouvian tax – which he defines as one levied on an agent causing an environmental problem as an incentive to mitigate that problem – for antibiotics.

A payment as vast as the one levied at BNP Paribas could require Deutsche Bank to raise capital to survive.

Even beyond the common argument that it will weaken economic growth, there's the fact that carbon taxes like the one levied in British Columbia, Canada have had a negligible effect in lowering CO2 emissions.

Of the poll taxes in English history, the most famous was the one levied in 1380, a main cause of the peasant's revolt of 1381 led by Wat Tyler.

"It is a telling indictment of New York's inadequate election law," said Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, "that there could be any question at all whether a fine like this one, levied for intentional misconduct, could be paid out of campaign funds".

He also said a wealthy political class in Washington resistant to change were the ones levying the accusations at him.

The charges mirrored similar ones levied on other reverse-mortgage clients.