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Example sentences for "exactions"

Lexicographically close words:
exactement; exacter; exactest; exacting; exaction; exactitude; exactly; exactness; exacts; exaggerate
  1. Princes imposing, and clerics submitting to such exactions were declared ipso facto excommunicate.

  2. While Edward irritated the nobles by his neglect of their counsel, he vexed the commons by the exactions of his purveyors.

  3. The increasing demands for money, the intrusion of aliens into English cures, and Martin's exactions were set forth at length.

  4. And he had laid such taxes and exactions on them, that they had to destroy their houses.

  5. Their rights limited and fixed the exactions of their lords.

  6. Experience had taught them prudence and dissimulation; and in all outward observances they conformed to the exactions of the law.

  7. Governor Cruzat y Gongora is making rigorous exactions upon the alcaldes-mayor and the tributary Indians; he engages in trade, and accepts gifts from office-seekers.

  8. Besides, they were "against the government"; and there were many good Peruvians who had reason to abhor the officials under whose exactions they were then suffering.

  9. Senor Mollendo, knowing that his life was hardly safe, had taken refuge in the hilly district in the heart of the province, and was there joined by his partisans, who grew gradually in number as the Prefect's exactions increased.

  10. Familiarity breeds contempt, and we Were familiar with the "Military Situation"; its exactions were so absurdly impalpable.

  11. The tipplers grew pale and visibly thinner; nature made her exactions with unwonted abruptness.

  12. The exactions of the local egglers formed the subject of much adverse criticism, but they excused their medicinal charges on the plea that they had nothing save eggs to sell.

  13. Footnote 1: Cicero says these exactions were common and that the provinces were even restrained from complaining.

  14. Verres apologized for his exactions by saying that he simply followed the common example.

  15. In 1320, forty of the Censors of the Empire remonstrated against the cruel exactions of "public leeches," and against a practice of calumniating honest men so as to get them out of the way.

  16. Next year there is a public distribution of grain, and a check to the exactions of tax-gatherers in the distressed districts.

  17. It was the time when the exactions of tribute for the king's wars in Normandy, or for the satisfaction of his greed and that of his court, were severely felt both by the church and the people.

  18. The burden of the history of Matthew Paris before he comes to the famine is that England had been emptied of treasure by the exactions of king and pope.

  19. A clear reference to pestilence continuing in the country comes in where the pope's exactions are mentioned.

  20. In fact, the papal exactions had caused intense disgust over all Western Europe, and no prince would allow himself to be set up as a rival to Frederick.

  21. But it was when he came to a bridge that the exactions grew insufferable.

  22. In Spain, the system of exactions was very complete.

  23. Rather than submit to all these exactions the company abandoned their Bill.

  24. Against the most arbitrary exactions the public have hitherto had no protection, and against the indefinite continuance or recurrence of the evil they have but one security.

  25. The event was hastened by the exactions and impositions of John himself, and by personal as well as official conduct which rendered him odious to his people--these causes at length producing a general combination against him.

  26. The mamelukes were for the most part attached faithfully to their masters, and the emirs, with their support, enriched themselves by exactions from the people, with the unscrupulous gains of office, and with rich fiefs from the state.

  27. This evil the writer ascribes to the exactions of the landlord and the lawyer.

  28. But the fact that they thought it necessary to disguise their exactions under the names of benevolences and loans sufficiently proves that the authority of the great constitutional rule was universally recognised.

  29. Its exactions are as fierce and indisputable as the laws and regulations of the Jesuits.

  30. They observed strictly the exactions of the Church, especially Lent; but indulged the Carnival to its wildest extent.

  31. They offered him, indeed, an indemnity from their exactions in future for three hundred thousand pounds more.

  32. Others went so far as to open offices in the small towns for the sale of passes, which boats crossing from headland to headland were compelled to show, in order to escape from greater exactions when under way.

  33. When junkmen and fishermen discovered that the extortions of the foreigner were damaging as the exactions of the native pirate, they tried to make terms with the latter; but it was too late.

  34. Mechanical operations, business speculations, commercial transactions, important as they may appear to the utilitarian, are far from responding to the requirements of the intellect, the imperious exactions of the heart.

  35. The present suitor, complaining that he is vexed by the exactions of the tax-gatherer on account of certain farms mentioned in the subjoined letter, offers to bring the amount due from them himself to our Treasurers[823].

  36. Your doubt is just," said the merchant, more sedately; "but suppose you draw the sword to put an end to the vexatious exactions of Burgundy?

  37. He might have pledged the revenue indeed; and supposing him to have done so, the debt has been paid twice over by the exactions levied by yonder oppressor, who has now received his due.

  38. After a delay of about ten days, the deputation commissioned to remonstrate with the Duke on the aggressions and exactions of Archibald of Hagenbach at length assembled at Geierstein, whence the members were to journey forth together.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "exactions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.