Sentence examples for takings a from inspiring English sources

Court decisions about property laws were ruled not to be "takings," a blow to the property rights movement.

Calling such takings a "public use" under the Constitution solely because they increase tax revenues to a city strains credulity.

The same can be said for Muppets Most Wanted, which has just posted weekend takings a slim 24% down on its opening session, and has cumed £3.51m to date.

The worst recession since the war has caused a triple-pronged slump: unemployment has eroded income tax takings, a dive in house prices has hurt property tax and weak consumer spending has reduced sales tax.

At 6.47pm on Saturday, 24 January 1970 a gang of robbers attacked supermarket staff as they took the weekly takings a short distance from Tesco's to the night safe at Lloyds bank around the corner in the Merrion shopping centre, Leeds.

The official box-office chart shows takings a healthy 89% up on the previous weekend, and 78% up on last year, when a weak field of new releases saw The Grand Budapest Hotel rise to the top of the chart in its third week.

By greetings and leave-takings a great deal of intended interpretation of the social relations between individuals can be expressed.

Note-taking, a SRL strategy may offload extraneous cognitive load while learning with hypermedia.

The harshest sentence was for bribe-taking — a life term in prison.

You could also give the process of visual note-taking a try.

"As well as the upheaval, there was a lot of drug-taking, a lot of hedonism.