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
In answering that constitutional question, this Court follows a functional approach, ‘disregarding the designation of the exaction, and viewing its substance and application.’
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
Henry had no heresy in his nature, but he was not without greed, and as he was certainly extravagant, he had therefore the stronger incentives to exaction.
From Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period by Furneaux Jordan
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