7 sentences with 'extract'
Example sentences and phrases with the word extract and other words derived from it.
• « The main purpose of these administrative capitals was to extract taxes and other wealth from local areas and channel it back to Rome, but they also served as genuine cultural centres. »
• « Each vassal had the right to extract wealth from his lands, i.e. from the peasants who lived on them, in order to buy horses, armour and weapons. »
• « Persian siege engineers were used to help conquer China, and later, Chinese officials were used to help extract taxes from what was left of Persia. »
• « The judges of the Star Court were royal officials appointed by Henry, and regularly used torture to extract confessions from the accused. »
• « The landed gentry had the right to extract financial dues, fees and rents from the peasants in the west. »
• « Thus, the nobility was in increasing conflict with the peasantry, largely because the former sought to extract more wealth from the latter. »
• « This extract, obtained from the leaves of the ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba), a tree native to Asia, "could be very effective in slowing the progression of degenerative neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease," says Dr Jerry Cott, head of the pharmacological treatment research programme at the US National Institute of Mental Health. »