exaction

How To Use exaction In A Sentence

• Similarly, the exaction of stiff reprisals for unexpected attacks on troops remote from the fighting front might cow the local population, or might stimulate them to more aggressive resistance.
• In seeking to avoid the customary exactions of their office, the sheriffs of the present generation were only following in the steps of sheriffs who, more than a century past, exerted themselves to reduce the expenses of shrievalties, and whose economical reforms were defended by reference to the conduct of sheriffs under the last of the Tudors. A Book About Lawyers
• Moreover, that exaction will climb to almost 43% come January. Hillary Clinton: Accidental Supply-Sider
• His ruthless exaction of tribute from the areas where his army operated led to his dismissal at the demand of the German electors in 1630.
• In economic terms, the exaction which was being delivered could be thought of as a tax on land value or recoupment of community benefit.
• [55] The words ladles and ladler seem to have descended from a time when the exactions were made in kind by ladling the quantity out of the sack. Life of Adam Smith
• Taking the primary definition as it was, how then did section 16 operate as to the exaction of the payment to the revenue?
• The limitations on entry, the exaction of high entrance fees, and the social distinctions inherent in the master-journeyman-apprentice division alone dictate so. Anis Shivani: Creative Writing Programs: Is The MFA System Corrupt And Undemocratic?
• Diligence and high self-esteem are meant to be virtues, but it will become exaction to demand every thing be perfect. it will neither help to cultivate one's mind, nor will it make one happy.
• Until about 1825 a long slight inflation had kept peasant incomes abreast of the increasing exactions of the official and sub-official classes.