Sentence examples for to exact from from inspiring English sources

But the largest cost that Skyrim wishes to exact from players is that which is measured in human hours: time.

The brokers are in a position to prevent the direct purchase of tickets to the desirable seats, and to exact from the patrons of the successful productions a price sufficient to pay the loss of those which are unsuccessful, plus an excessive profit to the broker.

Despite the traditional resistance of the Bedouins to any restraining central authority, by 631 Muhammad was able to exact from the majority of their tribes at least nominal adherence to Islam, payment of the zakāt, a tax levied on Muslims to support the poor, and acceptance of Medinan envoys.

Most of the laboring class possess property, cultivate their own lands, have families, and from the demand for their labor are enabled to exact from the rich and the competent such prices as enable them to be fed abundantly, clothed above mere decency, to labor moderately and raise their families".

Yet that's precisely what the business school admission process is trying to exact from applicants.

Sands seldom affords himself the same candor, reflection and introspection that he seeks to exact from Frank and Von Wächter.

The king was able to enforce obedience from lesser groups and to exact tribute from them.

By way of background, the law authorizes the Internal Revenue Service to exact taxes from individuals who receive prizes from television game shows like Jeopardy!

Solutions from this model were compared to exact solutions from a more detailed, general model.

Brent Staples ("How Slavery Fueled Business in the North," Editorial Observer, July 24) recounts the efforts of Deadria Farmer-Paellmann to exact reparations from modern companies that may have benefited from slavery in the 1800's.

Seventeen hundred miles, to be exact, from Omaha, Nebraska to Bend, Oregon.