Sentence examples for payment of tribute from inspiring English sources

As president, John Adams authorized the payment of tribute; by 1800, $2 million had been paid.

His son Ardys decided that the payment of tribute to Assyria was a lesser evil than conquest by the Cimmerians.

To forestall attack by the Turks, Martinuzzi resumed payment of tribute to the Porte in December 1551.

Upon payment of tribute it was returned to its Rajput rulers, but it was taken in 1556 by the Mughal emperor Akbar (reigned 1556 1605).

Thessalonica with Mount Athos and other places was restored to Byzantine rule, and the payment of tribute to the sultan was annulled.

As a consequence, the autonomy of the principalities was drastically curtailed, and the payment of tribute and the delivery of supplies rose precipitously.

Sometimes they were turned back by defenses but more often by payments of tribute.

His decisive victory moved Tyre and other parts of the empire to resume regular payments of tribute.

His son, Shalmaneser III, took tribute from the Tyrians and Sidonians and established a supremacy over Phoenicia (at any rate, in theory), which was acknowledged by occasional payments of tribute to him and his successors.

The Somali pirates are not working hand in glove with renegade foreign naval officers; they do not sign treaties with foreign governments in exchange for lavish annual payments of tribute; they do not descend on faraway shores and carry away hundreds of innocent civilians at a time.

The legends present the murder as an outburst against Wenceslas's devotion to the new faith, but the conspiracy probably had a strong political motivation namely, the payment of annual tribute to the king of Germany.