The entry of the British troops made no difference to the peace of Gyantse till the Lamas of Lhasa embarked on the fatal policy of levying more troops in Lhasa, Shigatze, and far-away Kham, and sending them down to fight.
The young O'Mores resisted the levying of the tribute, and Lysaght, the eldest, was killed in a fray.
The giving and taking of Daer-stock depended upon the impoverishment of a sept through cattle murrain, the levying of blood-fines on account of the misconduct of some of its members, &c.
Sir Piers was accused of levying coyne and livery for craftsmen as well as soldiers, and for his hunting establishment.
The constables were prohibited from levying contributions themselves, but might obtain the necessary supplies from the country through four 'cessers,' chosen by the freeholders for each garrison.
The privilege oflevying toll on all cattle passing through nine townships was granted to him and his heirs for ever.
There would, doubtless, be a gatehouse, built for defence and for levying tolls, etc.
One of the standing grievances of the Government of India against Manipur, was the levying of customs duties on all articles imported into the state, and on some articles exported to British territory.
Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.
By levying money for and to the use of the Crown by pretence of prerogative, for other time and in other manner than the same was granted by Parliament.
At first the town-meetings seem to have been held only for the election of officers, but they acquired to a limited extent the power of levying taxes and enacting by-laws.
Hitherto the king's prerogative oflevying money by name of tallage or prise, from his towns and tenants in demesne, had passed unquestioned.
That levying money for or to the use of the Crown by pretence and prerogative, without grant of Parliament, for longer time or in other manner than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
By levying a tax of a third upon the revenues of the clergy, he had amassed treasures which he might employ in strengthening his power.
Whilst the capital of the empire was thus agitated by popular commotions, the ministers of Alexius and Isaac were busied in levying taxes for the payment of the sums promised to the Latins.
For if levying interest from capital is a sin, the workers have a right to revolt against social order, as it exists.
And then consider the difficulty of levying so many taxes, and of dividing so much food.
The assembly attempted at various times to check slave importations by levying prohibitive duties, which were invariably disallowed by the English crown.
The crown here had an opportunity to get large revenues, of which it was in much need, by letting the slave trade under contract or by levying taxes upon it.
After long forbearance, Mr. Simmons, a worthy magistrate, and the officer of the militia in that quarter, found it necessary to issue his warrants for levying the penalty of the laws upon them.
That he was levying war on all Frenchmen, in the name of Sweyn, King of Denmark and of England?
The second article of the Appendix to the Introduction to Rob Roy contains two curious letters respecting the arrest of Mr. Grahame of Killearn by that daring freebooter, while levying the Duke of Montrose's rents.
That the power of levying and collecting taxes, duties, imposts, &c.
The Sultan Soliman hearing of the coming of the crusaders, left his capital defended by a strong garrison, and hastened to the mountains levying troops in all directions.
Elsiebede herself occupied the royal pavilion, and Cohr Eddin was levying forces to come to the rescue of Damietta.
Porter and Blair, another evidence, deposed, that sir John Friend had been concerned in levying men under a commission from king James, and that he knew of the assassination plot, though not engaged in it as a personal actor.
At the same time her general, who commanded in the electorate, exhausted the country by levying exorbitant contributions, and connived at such outrages as degraded his own dignity, and reflected disgrace on the character of his nation.
For the method of levying taxes rateably according to the value of estates was also introduced by him; nor had these tribes any relation to the number and distribution of the centuries.
For from what source was that money to be raised, except by levying a tax on the people.
We shall thus have to discern in the levying of dues by the community of Palmyra the same distinctive position which must be attributed to it in a military point of view.
Earl of Richmond (the proprietor of the fee-farm of Lothingland, given to him by Edward I) about levying the customs, etc.
All custom-houses, and levying of duties on goods imported or exported between the countries, had been removed.
Nothing prevented him from calling Parliament at once, but James undoubtedly had a fancy for trying his father's favourite measure of levying taxes without Parliament.
The soldiers traversed the country, levying contributions of cattle and provisions wherever they could find them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "levying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
