So long as no man exacts rights of property in anything more than the result of his labor, so long is he only asking what is due to him.
For this he usually receives a fee of five rupees, and in some States the appointment is in the hands of the Raja, who exacts a fine of a hundred rupees or more from a new candidate.
The Dom exacts his fee for three things, namely, first for the five logs, secondly for the bunch of straw, and thirdly for the light.
Baranda, the chaprasi, exacts tribute from them mercilessly, not exactly out of zeal for the service of his master, but out of greed for his talbana or perquisites.
But she was not exempt from the sorrows of a nature that exacts from life more than life can give, and finds its illusions vanish before the cold touch of experience.
She exacts and preserves, spite of her birth and their nonsensical prejudices about nobility, great court and attention.
She is sweet and trusting; she is peaceful, and loves repose above all; but her situation exacts unceasingly a conduct forced and out of her character; nothing so wears and destroys a machine naturally frail.
The operation, nevertheless, as proposed by the professor, still exacts numerous mutilations.
The study of the organs exacts time; their dissection is tedious, especially if intended for demonstration.
We have, on the one hand, a man who exacts from all his fellows the same amount of labour as formerly, although he offers them a limited amount of his own labour in return.
The French school exhibits a diamond, and says--"Here is a commodity which exacts no labour and yet is of immense value.
The services which it renders us, and the services which it exacts from us in return, are alike imposed upon us under the name of contributions.
And Exchange encounters fewer obstacles, and exacts fewer efforts, just in proportion as you bring men nearer each other, and mass them more together.
No change has yet taken place, except that one description of /services/, although partly relieved from the pain of muscular exertion, still exacts all its former remuneration.
In virtue of that motive which urges man to choose always the least of two evils, Exchange will go on extending itself indefinitely as long as the effort it exacts is less than the effort which it saves.
A tax upon ground-rents would not raise the rent of houses; it would fall altogether upon the owner of the ground-rent, who acts always as a monopolist, and exacts the greatest rent which can be got for the use of his ground.
It is far more cruel than the Black Slave Trade, because it exacts more of its slaves, and neither protects nor governs them.
We boast, that it exacts more, when we say, "that the profits made from employing free labor are greater than those from slave labor.
Success is a complicated problem, that, in order to be solved, exacts all the power of the calculus of probabilities.
It has been demonstrated to satiety that comparison exacts an indivisible centre that comprises the different terms of the comparison.
We have alluded to the small sum paid to obtain that exemption; but the tariff of the Holy Crusade exacts a larger sum from the nobility and persons of high dignity.
In these cases the clergy have recourse to the pope, and demand a bull called bulla de composicion, for which the datary at Rome exacts a considerable sum of money.
Duty is a thing which may be exacted from a person as one exacts a debt.
Now, therefore, combatexacts more moral cohesion, greater unity than previously.
The charge at a trot exacts of leaders and men complete confidence and steadfastness.
Combat exacts a moral cohesion, a solidarity more compact that ever before.
From the moment of death to the cremation custom exacts that all visitors to the family should be housed and fed at the expense of the relations.
Etiquette exacts that until the Sovereign actually enters the throne-room they must remain quite motionless, and they sometimes find themselves compelled to stand for hours without stirring!
Both at Woolwich and Sandhurst there is a graduated scale, which exacts more from a general officer than from a subaltern, and more from a civilian than from either.
Thorough in all, my resolute vizier Plays both the despot and the volunteer, Exacts with fines obedience to my laws, And for his music, too, exacts applause.
I warn you that he who has not the luck to throw the required number, will be precipitated forever into an obscure cell, where my justice exacts that he shall be burned by a slow fire.
From this it follows that religion exacts that we should firmly believe, without evidence, in propositions which are often improbable or opposed to reason.
Even the shabbiest of shore-boats, hired for the shortest time, exacts a stiffish fare.
The white radiance of the glacier region instils into us a sense of purity, and without the purity of heart which that stern region exacts we cannot see the sunset's glory in all its fulness.
In the white purity which this high region exacts they are forced to pierce through the superficial and unimportant and they catch sight of the real.
He exacts that the plan of the piece shall be well laid out; that is, that the plot shall be interesting, and shall as it proceeds afford dramatic situations fitted for musical expression.
The husband merely goes in search of the accused, and exacts from him some slight compensation.
He does not inculcate forgiveness of injuries, but exacts a tooth for a tooth, and an eye for an eye.
It was art they worshipped, and not the God who created the heavens and the earth, and who exacts of his creatures obedience and faith.
It exactsher brothers, lovers, sons, and in return gives her a life of loneliness and despair.
Considering the secrecy in which this practice is necessarily shrouded, and the consequent professional inefficiency and neglect, Puritanism continuously exacts thousands of victims to its own stupidity and hypocrisy.
Gnosian Rhadamanthus here holds unrelaxing sway, chastises secret crime revealed, and exacts confession, wheresoever in the upper world one vainly exultant in stolen guilt hath till the dusk of death kept clear from the evil he wrought.
Pallas it is, Pallas who now strikes the sacrifice, and exacts vengeance in thy guilty blood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "exacts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
