Sentence examples for were levied from inspiring English sources
verb
To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
No fines or penalties were levied.
In the other strike, in Neptune, no fines were levied.
Between 1991 and 1995, firms were levied an amount based on their net operating revenues.
The excessive fees and improper charges were levied on borrowers whose loans were serviced by Countrywide.
In 188 fines were levied against dealers for withholding grain, attesting to problems of supply.
Six percent said they did not know whether fees were levied.
The highest taxes in the association's list of 50 destinations were levied by Chicago.
Taxes were levied on dividends and when assets were sold abroad.
Extortionate taxes were levied in the provinces, and the government became filled with unprincipled opportunists.
Google informed Ireland and other countries that it had done so and no penalties were levied.
Fines totaling about $43 million, also a record, were levied on companies in immigration cases.
