exaction
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Other areas of technology that Australia sees as critical include advanced cyber security, communications, mineral exaction, autonomous vehicles and novel antibiotics.
From Reuters ● Nov. 16, 2021
In answering that constitutional question, this Court follows a functional approach, ‘disregarding the designation of the exaction, and viewing its substance and application.’
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2012
It does not, however, control whether an exaction is within Congress' power to tax.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 3, 2012
“We need not here decide the precise point at which an exaction becomes so punitive that the taxing power does not authorize it,” Chief Justice Roberts wrote, all but guaranteeing a flood of new litigation.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2012
Such a revelation of my heart should have helped me, but so blind was I that the only change it wrought was to turn the weapons of harshness, criticism, and exaction upon myself.
From Riches of Grace A Compilation of Experiences in the Christian Life by E. E. Byrum
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