8 sentences with 'revenues'
Example sentences and phrases with the word revenues and other words derived from it.
• « Another factor in the collapse of the western half of the Empire must be emphasised: once Rome began to lose large territories in the west, tax revenues were reduced to a fraction of what they had been. »
• « Each year, the imperial government in Constantinople brought in about 270,000 pounds of gold in tax revenues, compared to about 20,000 in the west. This made possible the creation of better-equipped, better-trained and better-supplied armies in the east. »
• « They created new borders and provinces to better suit their administration and to ensure that tax revenues flowed back to the capital, Damascus, with the additional idiosyncratic factor of having to pay a continuing salary to all Arab soldiers, even after these soldiers had retired. »
• « Unfortunately for the Ottomans, the conquest of Safavid and Habsburg territories in the early decades of the 16th century cost more to defend and maintain than they brought in tax revenues, which put a brake on Ottoman imperialism itself. »
• « During the heyday of its construction, 60% of royal revenues went to fund the elaborate court at Versailles (this later fell to 5% under Louis XVI, but the old figure was well remembered and resented), a huge ongoing expense that nonetheless underpinned royal prestige. »
• « The most important of these was Jean Baptiste Colbert (1619 - 1683), who doubled royal revenues by reducing the tax collectors' cut (only a quarter of revenues reached the royal coffers; in some cases he achieved as much as 80%), increasing tariffs on foreign trade going to France, and greatly increasing France's commercial interests abroad. »
• « Some of these can be captured in the statistics: royal governments grew by approximately 400% in size (i.e. in terms of the number of officials they employed and the tax revenues they raised) over the course of the 17th century, and standing armies grew from about 20,000 men during the 16th century to over 150,000 by the end of the 17th century. »
• « The Dutch were at the forefront of these changes. During their rebellion against Spain in the late 16th century, the Dutch began to view the revenues generated by trade as an economic lifeline. »