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Significados de exaction em inglês

The practice of extorting money or other property.

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Examples for "extortion"
Examples for "extortion"
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Violence, extortion, and intimidation continued throughout the year. The issue divides Nepal.
Reuters
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Yet extortion often costs him as much as or more than taxes.
Reuters
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Five months later, police arrested two KPK commissioners for extortion and bribery.
Reuters
4
Later he handled a company facing extortion by the same insurgent group.
Reuters
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I'm truly impressed by your legal knowledge, but extortion is a crime.
The frailty of flesh
Uso de exaction em inglês
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Nor is the tithe any longer the only exaction demanded by the Prophet.
Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Pr...
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The reputed exaction of his executive chamber was a sore spot to him.
An Arkansas Planter
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Further application to the King put an end to this exaction.-Ed.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
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Nor was this exaction unreasonable in view of the emergency.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02: Jewish Heroes and Prophets
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Let us see in what terms Dr. Kuyper justifies the Boer policy of exaction:
Boer Politics
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And that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every hand.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 1
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The dreaded pillage, however, was converted into a regular exaction.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. / Continued fro...
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So that bribery with him became a supplement to exaction.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)
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The exaction of landlords hath indeed been a grievance of above twenty years' standing.
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 / Historical...
10
KINDNESS, n. A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.
The Devil's Dictionary
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Berlin when he was governor of that capital during the campaign of 1807. and exaction.
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 10
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He was punctilious in the exaction of this ceremony.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 03 — Fiction
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The country was drained of treasure by the exaction of enormous ransoms for captured chiefs.
The Age of the Reformation
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The Indians were triumphant, but not a whit the less inclined to obstinacy and exaction.
The Scalp Hunters
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He seemed to dread the least appearance of exaction.
Home Again
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The government appealed his standing and exaction rulings.
Reuters
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