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41 examples of Exacting in a sentence

As with BP, the hole does get plugged, at least temporarily, but not before exacting a tremendous price.
A piece like Beethoven's Fifth basically witnessing how it was possible for him to go from sorrow and anger, over the course of a half an hour, step by exacting step of his route, to the moment when he could make it across to joy.
It will launch a compact satellite, called MethaneSAT, to do what no one has been able to do until now: measure methane pollution from oil and gas facilities worldwide, with exacting precision.
If we don't capture the material ourselves, we have to be extremely exacting about figuring out the provenance and where did this stuff come from and is it authentic?
And he waits until the girl turns eight to start exacting revenge.
Only on a very rare occasion does an episode of the x-files fail to generate any excitement or does the episode contain anything which is just totally boring to watch.A detective and his former partner both die in unexplained circumstances.The deaths are linked to the presence of a little girl who was there when the deaths took place.Mulder has devised a theory that a policeman murdered by his colleagues has come back reincarnated as the little girl and is exacting revenge.Now for the bizarre bit.The little girl has no connection at all and seems to just a random person chosen as the reincarnation.I think this was slightly lazy writing by the writers and this episode ranks as one of the worst in x-files history!
The film takes a turn for the bizarre as Marty finishes exacting his revenge on his former tormentors, only to be haunted by their ghosts.
Don't look for for exacting factual screenplay here, rather enjoy Gary Cooper's sensitive acting.
The man he has wronged is also compelling in that instead of exacting quick revenge as we see with other martial arts films he wants to know his families murderer to find out why he killed them.
The motions are exacting to the tiniest intricacies.
But, with a resurgent Taliban stepping up attacks, the war has raged on, exacting staggering costs in blood and treasure.
He daily reinvents the premises of the difficult search; he honors his reader, a stranger similar and dissimilar, with the gift of an exacting love.
The collapse of an artificial order often takes a toll, indeed, may be as exacting as the price first paid for the imposition of that order.
This approach is exacting a heavy toll.
The result has been not just a lack of a social narrative that a majority of Egyptians can embrace, but also an exacting obsession with the past.
The European framework is exacting but necessary.
In this way, a government that is exacting about the quality of its purchases can have a powerful impact on the evolution of its country’s comparative advantage.
But evidence from a number of project sites shows that the dams are exacting a serious environmental toll on those hosts.
And, as Salvini’s statement suggests, the coalition between M5S and the League could represent a new Euroskeptic movement capable of exacting revenge on financial markets, the European Union, and German fiscal hawks.
The new law requires the consent of 80% of a major tract’s landowners before the state can acquire it, and includes exacting provisions for the rehabilitation and resettlement of those affected.
In this age of globalization, failure to make viral samples freely available risks allowing the emergence of a new strain of influenza that could go unnoticed until it is capable of exacting the sort of toll taken by the pandemic that killed tens of millions in 1918.
In short, US foreign policy may be as active as ever, but it is downsizing and becoming more exacting about its priorities.
Exacting revenge, Clodius engineered Cicero’s exile and laid his plans to rise to the top of the political pyramid.
Yet China’s policies are now exacting rising internal-security costs, as the resurgence of separatism in several regions shows.
The marginalization of economic history in economics education is now exacting a high toll.
The accelerating pandemic is also exacting a shocking human and economic toll, first and foremost in terms of lost lives, but also as a result of bankruptcies, job losses, and mental-health problems.
Failure to take such steps is exacting a devastating physical, psychological, social, and economic toll on countries.
Worse, the crisis is exacting a massive toll on the world’s poor and most vulnerable, jeopardizing decades of hard-won development gains.
Much to my surprise, Captain Nemo gave me the permission I asked for, and he did so with grace and alacrity, not even exacting my promise to return on board.
I told him in general, too, that as I had several relations in the place where we were, and that I durst not now let myself be known to them, because they would soon come into a knowledge of the occasion and reason of my coming over, which would be to expose myself to the last degree, so I had reason to believe that my mother, who died here, had left me something, and perhaps considerable, which it might be very well worth my while to inquire after; but that this too could not be done without exposing us publicly, unless we went from hence; and then, wherever we settled, I might come, as it were, to visit and to see my brother and nephews, make myself known to them, claim and inquire after what was my due, be received with respect, and at the same time have justice done me with cheerfulness and good will; whereas, if I did it now, I could expect nothing but with trouble, such as exacting it by force, receiving it with curses and reluctance, and with all kinds of affronts, which he would not perhaps bear to see; that in case of being obliged to legal proofs of being really her daughter, I might be at loss, be obliged to have recourse to England, and it may be to fail at last, and so lose it, whatever it might be.