exaction
Example Sentences
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While his is not an acting part of great exactions, he succeeds in bringing enormous impact through the utter simplicity and sincerity of what he does.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2023
In Kasai, only the UN stands between the people and exactions of the state and different militias.
From BBC • Dec. 13, 2017
“Society,” as I was learning to call it, and the exactions of Mr. Responsible.
From The New Yorker • May 25, 2015
John’s reply: “Why do not the barons, with these unjust exactions, ask my kingdom?”
From The New Yorker • Apr. 13, 2015
Sir Frances Michel having been convicted of grievous exactions was sentenced, in 1621, to a ‘degradation of honour.’
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony
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