Sentence examples for to be exacted from inspiring English sources

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Not even "three pence" contribution was thus to be exacted from [p504] any citizen for such a purpose.

During the Gordon Riots of 1780 the tollbooths were attacked and looted, and tolls ceased to be exacted after 1785.

Sexism in television is more subtle now – not least because the law allows penalties to be exacted – but prejudice persists and a bias holds sway.

In the end, the benefits to be provided by the dam including the development of at least 200,000 kilowatts of hydroelectric power outweighed the costs to be exacted by the inundation of the valley.

From no other cart or load shall any chiminage be exacted, and chiminage shall only be exacted in places where it used to be exacted of old and ought to have been exacted.

It follows that the rules promulgated by the board, prescribing the form of oath to be exacted of persons offering to register as voters, and which constitute the directions under which it is alleged the registration officers acted, were without force, and no effect can be given to them.

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