Sentence examples for right to levy from inspiring English sources

If that happens, both would have the right to levy huge duties on the offending products.

The civil war began as a dispute over the divine right to levy taxes.

In January the competitive pressure grew when the insurers gained the right to levy extra fees on their customers.

The Lyons review recommended giving councils the right to levy up to 4p in the pound for local projects.

Such ideas are anathema to Britain and Germany, which argue that the Union has no right to levy its own taxation.

Local government is allocated to the kommuner (municipalities), each with an elected assembly and the right to levy income taxes and to charge fees for various services.

According to the OFT, it is unlikely individuals will be able to claim a refund for any outstanding charges as the law has now been clarified: the banks are within their rights to levy the charges.

Derby city council has called for the right to impose a levy on large supermarkets, which it says could earn the local authority an estimated £2m a year.

The council wants the right to impose a levy on large supermarkets, retain the money raised, and use it to help small businesses.

Rupert Murdoch may be vanquished as far as the BBC is concerned, but the corporation still has to argue for its right to exist and to levy £145.50 from every household in the country with a TV set.

In pursuing war with the American colonists, George III believed he was defending the right of an elected Parliament to levy taxes, rather than seeking to expand his own power or prerogatives.