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How to use exactions in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word exactions? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
On his estate, rents were collected, a grace period given if needed, but no other exactions were demanded.
Until about 1825 a long slight inflation had kept peasant incomes abreast of the increasing exactions of the official and sub-official classes.
Apart from demanding an increase in wages, they demanded that the military stop collecting illegal exactions from the truck drivers at the gates.
He was a man of violent temper and sarcastic tongue, a strict disciplinarian, and ruthless in his exactions.
In March 1340 he travelled to London on community business, to show proof to the city authorities that Lynn burgesses were exempt from murage exactions there.
After taxes, and other exactions including, in many cases, rent, the peasantry had not enough left to rear sufficient children to counterbalance the high death rate.
Collected under direct military pressure, these allowed exactions of money and payments in kind at considerably higher rates than any civil system permitted.
Rising tax exactions invariably dampened the spirits of charity.
By early 1282, many of the lesser princes who had supported Edward against Llywelyn in 1277 were becoming disillusioned with the exactions of the royal officers.
Examples from Classical Literature
He was in the moneylender's hands, and to comply with his exactions would not end them.
Their vengefulness and their severe exactions caused them to lose the fruits of their victory.
The means of enforcing these exactions is always at hand, and is expressed in one fateful and compound noun, law-suit.
They however addressed their governor to obtain, if possible, a disallowance of the exactions of Wilmot.
He was eager to make it known that he would readily answer all questions and satisfy all exactions.
All these exactions must be a serious check to clearing the ground, where the inhabitants are so extremely poor.
Unlawful exactions and severities of the clergy were prohibited.
When their substance is drained away, the peasantry will be afflicted by heavy exactions.
The authors equivocate, however, on whether exactions are equitable and efficient solutions.
The best of all was, that, in the midst of their exactions, all the sisters had a great tenderness and respect both for Sophy and Traddles.
It was plain, even in the brief time given me for reflection, that in dealing with this girl ordinary methods would not do, and ordinary exactions were needless.
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