His feeling always exacted sacrifices from her.

For example, Psalm 34 is attributed to David on the occasion of his escape from the Abimelech ( king ) Achish by pretending to be insane-according to the narrative in 1 Samuel 21, instead of killing the man who had exacted so many casualties from him, Abimelech allows David to depart, exclaiming, " Am I so short of madmen that you have to bring this fellow here to carry on like this in front of me?

Diocletian exacted an oath of allegiance from the defeated army and departed for Italy.

With the rise of Islam in the 7th century the power of Aksum declined and the Kingdom became isolated, the Dahlak archipelago, northern and western Eritrea, came under increasing control of Islamic powers based in Yemen and Beja lands in Sudan. The Beja were often in alliance with the Umayyads of Arabia who themselves established footholds along stretches of the Eritrean coastline and the Dahlak archipelago while the Funj of Sudan exacted tribute from the adjacent western lowlands of Eritrea.

Part of his proposal was the idea that micropayments could be automatically exacted from the reader for all the text, no matter how many snippets of content are taken from various places.

In his reign Russia concluded the union with republican France to contain the growing power of Germany, completed the conquest of Central Asia, and exacted important territorial and commercial concessions from China.

In 1726, the British Governor of New York exacted a promise from the Iroquois to return all runaway slaves who had joined up with them.

The Varangians ( Varyags, in Old East Slavic ) are first mentioned by the Primary Chronicle as having exacted tribute from the Slavic and Finnic tribes in 859.

In addition to annexing much of the colonial possessions of the vanquished states, the Triple Entente exacted punitive restitution payments from their former foes, plunging Germany in particular into economic depression.

* The huge indemnity exacted from China is used to establish the Yawata Iron and Steel Works.

I may say with truth, that in few countries so much is left to the share of the laborer, and so little exacted from him, or where there is more kind attention paid to him in sickness or infirmities of age.

By strict economy of time he accomplished an immense amount of work ; he exacted similar application from his dependents, and proved himself a hard husband, a strict father, a severe and cruel master.

There are two possible occasions when this could have happened: the first was in 145 BC, when Ptolemy VIII purged Alexandria of the intellectuals who supported his rivals for the throne ; and in 132 BC after Ptolemy, who had been driven from his kingdom by a rebellion in Alexandria, returned and exacted reprisals on that city.

Though, except for the Dogger-Bank skirmish, no major battles were fought in European waters, and the British blockade encountered little opposition from the Dutch fleet, the blockade itself exacted its toll on the British seamen, who were at sea for long times at a stretch ( which even exposed them to the danger of scurvy ) and the ships, that suffered from severe wear and tear.

He also ruled over the greater part of Germany, made expeditions into Saxony, and for some time exacted from the Saxons an annual tribute of 500 cows.

Moreover, the Sarmatians exacted tribute from the Cotini and Osi, and iron from the Cotini ( ch.

In 1742 the Peshwa advanced to Mandla and exacted tribute, and from this time until 1781, when Gond dynasty of Garha-Mandla was finally overthrown, Garha-Mandla remained practically a Maratha dependency.

The area appears to have remained largely British in the first century or so after Britain left the Roman Empire, but pagan burials and place names in its north-eastern sector suggest an inflow of Angles along the Warwickshire Avon and perhaps by other routes ; they may have exacted tribute from British rulers.

He exacted promises of just government from Rufus, and was not afraid to remonstrate when the promises were disregarded.

The Horde exacted tax payments from its subject peoples – Rus ' people, Armenians, Georgians, Circassians, Alans, Crimean Greeks, Crimean Goths, and others ( Bulgarians, Vlachs ).

The congregation suffered severely during the Silesian wars ( 1740 – 1742, 1744 – 1745 and 1756 – 1763 ), when they had to furnish the monarchy with their share in the supertaxes exacted by the government of Maria Theresa from the Jews of Moravia.

" At one time he had resolved to burn all the Jews, a ditch having been dug for that purpose ; but at the last moment he repented, and instead exacted a heavy tribute, during the collection of which many perished.

To raise the money he " taxed the land and exacted the silver and gold from the people of the land according to their assessments.

In 1392, more than a century before Martin Luther published the 95 Theses, Pope Boniface IX wrote to the Bishop of Ferrara condemning the practice of certain members of religious orders who falsely claimed that they were authorized by the pope to forgive all sorts of sins, and exacted money from the simple-minded among the faithful by promising them perpetual happiness in this world and eternal glory in the next.

In an attempt to free himself from the Italian money lenders he exacted aids from the clergy, and borrowed from many church dignitaries in the north of England.

He was then admitted into the city on friendly terms, but nevertheless exacted from them a large sum of money, and committed various other excesses.

The Jets exacted revenge on their opponent when they eliminated the Colts in a narrow 17 – 16 victory that saw Nick Folk kick the game-winning field goal for New York as time expired.

If the light yoke and sweet burden of Christ were to be preached to the most obstinate people of the Saxons with as much determination as the payment of tithes has been exacted, or as the force of the legal decree has been applied for fault of the most trifling sort imaginable, perhaps they would not be averse to their baptismal vows.

They exacted harsh terms: in the Treaty of Vienna ( 1731 ), Great Britain demanded that Austria abolish the Ostend Company in return for its recognition of the Pragmatic Sanction.

The carrier gave a receipt for the consignment, took all responsibility, and exacted a receipt upon delivery.

At the same time, he planned to reduce the abuses perpetrated by the senators, many of whom cultivated their local interests disregarding the imperial policies, even refusing paying taxes and keeping for themselves the taxes they had exacted.

Haiti was already in debt to the French, which had exacted high payment for lost properties of planters, in essence making Haiti pay for its independence.

Cleon had prosecuted Aristophanes for slandering the polis with an earlier play, The Babylonians ( 426 BC ), for which the young dramatist had promised revenge in The Acharnians ( 425 BC ), and it was in The Knights ( 424 BC ) that his revenge was exacted.

Each U. S. state also has its own regulations concerning: permission to record, permission to continue, no rebuttaling statutes, Sunday and Holiday calls ; as well as the fines and punishments exacted for violations.

The Roman republic also exacted tribute in the form of payments equivalent to proportional property taxes for the purpose of waging war.

" Section 29 of the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 states that " Excessive bail shall not be exacted for bailable offences: And all fines shall be moderate.

The terms exacted were, however, too harsh for a nation yet unbroken to accept permanently.

This military campaign gained notoriety for the brutality it exacted on not only the violent ; but also elected officials, magistrates and University of Tucumán faculty ( even secondary school teachers ).

Whatever the case, Peters exacted a high price for allowing Bolger to stay on as prime minister.

In October 1822, Ismail, with his retinue, was burnt to death by Nimr, the mek ( king ) of Shendi ; and the defterdar, a man infamous for his cruelty, assumed the command of those provinces, and exacted terrible retribution from the inhabitants.

The Seven Years ' War caused the region to regress in its development, as high contributions were exacted from the population for the war effort and the Neumark was the setting for battles such as at Kunersdorf.