"It's the fighters that are subject to these exactions".
In the first half of the 12th century, the kingdom presented the appearance of a typical European monarchy, with lordships owing military service and subject to fiscal exactions.
This was a bill to regulate rates of interest charged by small-loan companies, and the Governor's tone made me tremble for the small debtors of Louisiana, left naked to the exactions of the Shylocks.
It's important to remember that such research may well be about understanding the risks to oil exaction in these areas, not simply a matter of "de-risking" the Arctic.
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.
When opponents of the estate and inheritance tax referred to this exaction as a death tax, they seized the moral high ground.
This led to dissension among the English nobility, while John's financial exactions to pay for his unsuccessful attempts to regain Normandy led in 1215 to Magna Carta, a charter that confirmed the rights and privileges of free men in England.
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.
The world's Lafontaines cannot understand that overly-exacting exactions extinguish economic innovation and risk-taking.
Despite this success, the provinces were increasingly uneasy, for they were oppressed by exactions to cover Nero's extravagant expenditures on his court, new buildings, and gifts to his favourites; the last expenditures alone are said to have amounted to more than two billion sesterces, a sum that was several times the annual cost of the army.
