Sentence examples for the taking by from inspiring English sources

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The French and German systems, unlike Anglo-American law, require that it be paid in advance of the taking by the government.

At home he reversed Somerset's liberal agrarian policies by suppressing peasants who resisted enclosure normally the taking by propertied classes of arable land held in common by the peasants.

"Every single one of them, gone," she said, noting that the two plum trees at the garden, on 89th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues, yield fruit "for the taking" by neighborhood children, "not to encourage stealing, but to help city kids learn where their food comes from".

This makes their territories appear ripe for the taking by dam builders, loggers, and their financiers.

While food is wasted at every step along the supply chain, nearly half of the country's wasted food is lost at supermarkets and restaurants, creating a vast supply of uneaten food sitting in dumpsters and trash cans ― ripe for the taking by people who know how to find it.

Most people use the word differently, but in the law -- in this instance California penal code 405a -- lynching is "the taking by means of a riot of any person from the lawful custody of a peace officer," not a mob killing someone by hanging.

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The steps taken by the government have never been sectarian.

That was the route taken by the Pineda-Andrews.

That is certainly the view taken by the Israelis.

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