Sentence example with the word 'impost'

impost

assessment, claim, direct tax, extortion, indent, nonnegotiable demand, requisition, supertax, tax dodging, tax withholding, tithe, withholding tax

Definition n. money collected under a tariff

Last update: July 25, 2015


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The policy of protection was further accentuated by raising the impost on corn from 5 to 7 francs per hectolitre (23/4 bushels).   [Please select]

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The lands of the public domain which should not be alienated were to be charged with a considerable impost.   [Please select]

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After the vaultings have been polished, set the impost mouldings directly beneath them.   [Please select]

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No fear of Indian attacks now, nor impost exactions from the tyrant Governor of New Mexico, Don Manuel Armijo.   [Please select]

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Rudely sculptured impost blocks also sometimes occur, as at Sompting and at St.   [Please select]

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Sometimes the curvature of the arch does not immediately spring from the capital or impost, but is raised or stilted.   [Please select]

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In architecture, this trinity of vertical, horizontal and curved lines finds admirable illustration in the application of columns and entablature to an arch and impost construction, so common in Roman and Renaissance work.   [Please select]

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