Sentence examples for their exactions from inspiring English sources

Those who resist their exactions face fierce retribution.

These Gods were once absolute and their exactions severe.

In the following weeks the former rebels continued their exactions in pro-Gbagbo districts with widespread looting.

His role was increasingly difficult because the terrible drain of the war in the Soviet Union caused the Germans to increase their exactions.

He depicts Japanese society thinly but unfolds in elaborate, obsessively repetitive yet finely varied detail the agonies inflicted upon Japan's Christian converts and the European missionaries who minister to them, as well as the intellectual arguments mustered by Japanese officials to justify their exactions and by missionaries to defend their own activities.

The world's Lafontaines cannot understand that overly-exacting exactions extinguish economic innovation and risk-taking.

Enterprises were to be protected by law against arbitrary exactions by their superiors.

But he rightly saw the distinction between those laudable goals and the less-than-laudable efforts to force low-tax countries to impose more exactions on their citizens.

Their battles, banditry and financial exactions have impeded economic recovery and national cohesion.

Lack of effective supervision, combined with tax farmers' desire to maximize their profits, had produced a system of arbitrary exactions that was often barbarously cruel to taxpayers, widely (and accurately) perceived as unfair, and very harmful to investment and the economy.

Even those Americans who pay little or no federal income tax feel that the tax collector, through a myriad of other exactions, has too big a hand in their wallets and purses.