Thus the revenues of his foreign dominions being nearly consumed by their necessary expenses, the measure of his positive wealth was to be found in the riches of Spain.
His system was essentially a gigantic and perpetual levy of contributions in kind, and it is only in this vague and unsatisfactory manner that the revenues of his empire can be stated.
Very few of the swarming millions of naked and hungry throughout the land were clothed or nourished out of these prodigious revenues of the Church.
The few possessors of capital wasted theirrevenues in unproductive consumption.
It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that excessive revenues are obtained.
This will immediately follow where defence is wanting, and defence will ever be wanting, where sufficient revenues are not provided.
I would still keep the militia as an organized body of men, and should there be a real necessity to call them forth, pay them out of the proper revenues of the state, and increase the taxes a third or fourth per cent.
The funding system set out with raising revenues under the name of loans, by means of which government became both prodigal and powerful.
I consider the revenues created by taxes as the first and principal thing, and fines only as secondary and accidental things.
Its revenues are based on taxation, and in the end what all this means is that the rich are to be taxed for the benefit of the poor, which we may be told is neither justice nor charity but sheer spoliation.
The former came in person to Damascus, and offered the atabeg Noor-ed-deen a third of the revenues of Egypt if he would aid him to overcome his rival.
In July 1482 he was granted the revenuesfrom the prebendals and canonries of Valencia; in the following month he was appointed Canon of Valencia and apostolic notary.
Already on the very day of his coronation he conferred upon Cesare the bishopric of Valencia, whose revenues amounted to an annual yield of sixteen thousand ducats.
His Yugoslav Academy at Zagreb, the Zagreb University and the Society for studying the history of the Yugoslavs are but a few of the national institutions to which he devoted the princely revenues of Djakovo.
The revenues of the state were not to be spent on any purpose except the war.
At the same time his revenues were increased by the thorough cultivation of the country, since he imposed a tax of one tenth on all the produce.
In these islands of the East-Indian Archipelago the relations between the Europeans and the Dutch are peculiar, based on the policy of the government of getting the largest possible revenues out of these fertile possessions.
Rivers, whereby a great foreign and inland Trade is maintained, the Breed of Sea-men increased, and the Customs and Revenues of the Town very much advanced.
Already this bill, by throwing the land system on the revenues from imports for support, virtually distributes among the States a part of those revenues.
The name, the credit, and the revenues of the United States are given up to the use of this company, and constitute in themselves an immense capital to bank upon.
These words were, then, a fair subject of objection and argument, because they went to set aside the money of the constitution, and to admit the public revenues to be paid in something which was not money.
And if what is offered does not please the seigneur, he can claim but the revenues of the fief for one year.
She drew revenues from her holdings and was in every sense the executive head of her house.
Sire, for God's sake, remember that he is to reign after you; send him what he needs, at least the revenues of his own patrimony.
Government of India in aid of the provincial revenuesfor its improvement and extension.
The Church also claimed tithes of revenues of every kind, even from such divers classes as traders, soldiers, beggars, and abandoned women.
The whole system was a convenient method of adding to the revenues of Rome, and no occasion seemed too small for the exercise of the papal power of dispensation.
But the endowments and revenues of the Church were so extensive as to raise in the minds of many reformers the question whether they were not largely responsible for her corruptions.
The election could not take place without his permission, the newly elected bishop took an oath of fealty to the King, and during the vacancy of the see the revenues were paid to the Crown.
According to the Canon Law, the bishop was only the usufructuary of the lands and revenues belonging to his see.
He had begun life with ten thousand livres of income, and he had acquired a million, not counting his appointments or his revenues from the government.
The Princes have officers in accordance with their revenues and in accordance with the rank that they hold in the kingdom.
It was the last act of Henry the Eighth's reign, and was put in execution by his successor; but the promise was ill performed, many of the revenues being seized, upon the plea of their being free chapel or chantry endowments.
They bestowed alms annually upon the poor, received travelling strangers, and did other acts of charity, as far as their revenues allowed.
Leaving out the proceeds of the guano monopoly and the nitrate royalties, the totalrevenues could not pay the interest.
Commerce and industry had been prostrated; revenues had dwindled to nothing; the paper currency was worth less than one per cent.
All the revenues were insufficient to pay interest on this sum--a truly stupendous one for so poor a country.
The increasing revenues had proved a curse instead of a blessing, for the demands of the states and officials were insatiable, and the sums spent in subsidies and internal improvements grew beyond all reason.
The executive had only the shadow of a control over the provinces, its revenues sank to well-nigh nothing, its army was reduced to eight hundred men.
Though one-fifth of the federal revenueswere spent on the public school system, and one-tenth of the children were nominal attendants, the clergy were permitted to have no share in their control, and retaliated by excommunicating the parents.
The preparations of the spring of 1879 plunged the government into expenditures which ordinary revenues were totally insufficient to meet.
The revenues of the country had fallen from the two millions annually of colonial times to almost nothing.
The government's revenues diminished a third and amounted to less than half the expenditures.
The law of 1868, which had hypothecated the revenues to meet the charges of the public debt, was repealed and the foreign bonds were scaled down to less than one-third their face.
Foreign commerce was increasing by leaps and bounds; the growth of the customs revenues put government finances on a sound footing; the expenses of the war against Santa Cruz had been provided for out of current income.
The central government transferred a large part of its revenues to the provinces, and gave up to them the control of judicial administration, of education, and of transportation.
He adopted, therefore, the hitherto exceptional method of suppressing certain priories, in order that he might endow with their revenues his new foundation of Cardinal College, as it was first styled.
Priory of St. Frideswide, and to transfer the canons to other houses of the Augustinian order, so that their dwelling and revenuesmight be assigned to the proposed college of secular clerks.
Besides, the establishment was at that time too impoverished for anything of the kind, many of the lands andrevenues having been alienated, as we learn from the Domesday Book.
At the time of the dissolution, the revenues in money of this royal abbey did not exceed the small sum of £675 a year.
The productiveness of the public revenues hitherto has continued to be equal to the anticipations which were formed of it; but it is not expected to prove commensurate with all the objects which have been suggested.
As all the ecclesiastical revenueswent to him, his power and patronage were immense.
This contraband trade not only affected the personal character of the people, but naturally injured the commerce and impaired the revenues of New Spain.
Meanwhile the French fleet kept up a stringent blockade of Vera Cruz, and still more crippled the commercial revenues of Mexico by cutting off the greater part of its most valuable trade.
Under the reign of this enlightened nobleman the colony prospered rapidly, and his services in increasing the royal revenues were so signally successful that he was retained in power for nine years.
But all this expensive machinery of state and royalty, was not supported without ample revenues from the people.
At the dissolution its annual revenues were estimated at L429.
This college was dissolved in the general wreck of establishments of this kind, when itsrevenues amounted to L54 10s.
The revenues of these estates were also to be applied towards apportioning maidens of the town on their entrance into the marriage estate.
King of Scotland, founded here a convent for Cistertian Nuns; and Robert III, granted its revenues to Dryburgh Abbey.
Its revenues amounted, at the suppression of the religious houses, to L1084.
Their annual revenuesarising from duties taken at the quay and gates, are estimated at L7000.
The abbey subsequently obtained great privileges, and became very rich, the revenues at the dissolution amounting to upwards of L2500.
The Lincoln people next began the same game, but they did not reckon with the new warden, Gerard de Camville, who had bought the revenues and provided a harbour there for the Israelites.
It came to a man who gave a third of his money in alms and who lived from hand to mouth, often borrowing on his revenues before he got them.
From the age of twenty to twenty-eight he enjoyed the revenues of that great see without consecration.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "revenues" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
