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Example sentences for "raise revenue"

  • The leading principles established by it are to levy the taxes with a view to raise revenue and to impose them upon the articles imported according to their actual value.

  • The object of imposing duties on imports should be to raise revenue to pay the necessary expenses of Government.

  • The object of the committee is to raise revenue, I take it.

  • The desired legislation is enacted under the guise of an act to regulate commerce or raise revenue, and the task of upholding the Constitution is passed to the Supreme Court.

  • One of the chief defects, perhaps the most vital defect of all, in the Confederation which carried through the Revolutionary War and preceded the Union, was its inability to raise revenue directly by taxation.


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