6 sentences with 'taxed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word taxed and other words derived from it.
• « Likewise, Solomon taxed both the trade that passed through the Hebrew kingdom and his own subjects. »
• « Thus, monarchs granted monopolies on products and then taxed them, and frequently sold titles of nobility and state offices to the highest bidder (the Queen of Sweden doubled the number of noble families in ten years). »
• « They also relentlessly taxed the peasantry: royal taxes doubled in France between 1630 and 1650, and the concomitant peasant uprisings were ruthlessly suppressed. »
• « During the Napoleonic period, Spanish liberal intellectuals had been stuck in an uncomfortable position. Their country was ruled by a foreign power, France, which taxed them and extracted resources for its wars, but which also represented the best hope for liberal reform. »
• « The Vatican in Rome wielded great power over the lives of Europeans; it controlled not only learning and scholarship, but also finances, because it taxed the faithful. »
• « The Plantation Duties Act taxed enumerated goods exported from one colony to another, a measure aimed primarily at New Englanders, who transported large quantities of molasses from the West Indies, including molasses smuggled from the French-owned islands, to be made into rum. »