exaction
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Other areas of technology that Australia sees as critical include advanced cyber security, communications, mineral exaction, autonomous vehicles and novel antibiotics.
From Reuters ● Nov. 16, 2021
It does not, however, control whether an exaction is within Congress’ power to tax.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2012
It does not, however, control whether an exaction is within Congress' power to tax.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 3, 2012
“We need not here decide the precise point at which an exaction becomes so punitive that the taxing power does not authorize it,” Chief Justice Roberts wrote, all but guaranteeing a flood of new litigation.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2012
On the other hand, who refuses to see The Merchant of Venice because of the inherent improbability of the exaction of the pound of flesh by Shylock?
From Dramatic Technique by George Pierce Baker
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