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Like the English poll tax, the French capitation tax was assessed on rank – for taxation persons, French society was divided in twenty-two " classes ", with the Dauphin ( a class by himself ) paying 2, 000 livres, princes of the blood paying 1500 livres, and so on down to the lowest class, composed of day laborers and servants, who paid 1 livre each.
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Like Green, Trevelyan aimed to write a history not of `` English kings or English conquests '', but of the English people.
Like most dialects of English it is distinguished primarily by its vowel phonology.
Like the previous plan by Sensi, this new stadium is to be modeled after English stadiums.
Like all international auxiliary languages ( or IALs ), Basic English may be criticised as unavoidably based on personal preferences, and thus, paradoxically, inherently divisive.
Like he had with montages of landscapes and indigenous art, Marker created a film essay that contrasts and juxtaposes a variety of lives with his signature commentary ( spoken by Marker's friends, singer-actor Yves Montand in the French version and Simone Signoret in the English version ).
The name Cuāuhtemōc ( Nahuatl pronunciation: ) means " One That Has Descended Like an Eagle ", commonly rendered in English as " Descending Eagle " as in the moment when an eagle folds its wings and plummets down to strike its prey, so this is a name that implies aggressiveness and determination.
Like many other alphabetic orthographies, English spelling does not represent non-contrastive phonetic sounds ( that is, minor differences in pronunciation which are not used to distinguish between different words ).
Like journey, the distance that could be travelled in a day, the title ' journeyman ' derives from the French words for ' day ' ( jour and journée ) from which came the middle English word journei.
Like the English word messiah, mashiach means anointed.
One of the most prominent examples of a metaphor in English literature is the All the world's a stage monologue from As You Like It:
Like the radio services of the NBC, the television service tries to cater to all the linguistic audiences in Namibia, although the dominant language is English ( Namibia's official language )
Like most of the Plantagenet kings before the 14th century, he had no need to learn the English language.
Like troth, it is a-th nominalisation of the adjective true ( Old English tréowe ).
Like many other areas of American law, the Fourth Amendment finds its roots in English legal doctrine.
Like the English and Irish country houses it was modeled on, the White House was, from the start, open to the public until the early part of the 20th century.
In August 2009, some of the lyrics for " A Boy Like That " (" Un Hombre Asi ") and " I Feel Pretty " (" Me Siento Hermosa "), which were previously sung in Spanish in the revival, were changed back to the original English.
Like their English and Welsh counterparts, then, the parks in Scotland are effectively " managed landscapes ", and are classified as IUCN Category V Protected Landscapes because of this.
Like Elizabeth, the Electress's rights are denied her by a jealous sister Anne, and she will never be sure of the English crown until her accession to the throne.
Like right, the English words rule and ruler, deriving still from the same root, have both normative or regulatory and geometric meanings ( e. g. a ruler as in a king, or a ruler as in a straightedge ).
Like the French, trade with the natives was an important part of English and British colonial policy, but they also heavily promoted settlement and development.
Like English, German uses ( German-style ) quotation marks between the first and last names ( e. g., Andreas Nikolaus „ Niki “ Lauda ).
Singles were released in various territories for three of the album's songs, " If You Were Here ", " Things She Said " and " 747 " ( featuring the English version of " Kräm ", entitled " What It Feels Like ").
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Another Channel 4 poll in 2001 named it the 23rd greatest film of all time ( the only comedy that came higher on this occasion was Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot, which was ranked 5th ).
Like Nigel Lawson, Redwood opposed the poll tax on the grounds that it was unworkable.
Like the Voodoo Graphics, there was no interrupt mechanism, so the driver had to poll the Rush in order to determine whether a command had completed or not ; the indirection through the 2D component added significant overhead here and tended to back up traffic on the PCI interface.
The single placed second in the Village Voice Pazz & Jop annual critics ' poll, behind Nirvana's " Smells Like Teen Spirit ".
Colman has appeared in roles in numerous comedy films and other BBC, ITV and Channel 4 television programmes such as Bruiser, People Like Us, Look Around You, Black Books, The Office, The Time Of Your Life and provided the voice-over for Five's poll for Britain ’ s Funniest Comedy Character.
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Like many post-Soviet countries, Georgia went through a period of sharp economic decline during 1990s, with high inflation and large budget deficits, due to persistent tax evasion.
Like a king, the marquess collected a portion of the tax revenues in his fief as personal income.
Like other islands, it seeks to attract investors with tax concessions and other financial inducements, but several offshore manufacturing plants have closed after their duty-free concessions expired, normally a 10-year span.
Like the pioneer Canton Glarus, the Canton of Zug lowered tax charges for holding and domiciled companies.
Like citizens, they had to perform military service and, if wealthy enough, were subject to the special tax contributions ( eisphora ) and tax services (" liturgies ", for example, paying for a warship or funding a tragic chorus ) contributed by wealthy Athenians.
Like previous taxes, the stamp tax had to be paid in valid British currency, not in colonial paper money.
* Like the sewer tax, the MARTA sales tax is separate and not considered a SPLOST.
Like most Southern senators, White opposed the Tariff of 1828, which placed a high tax on goods imported from overseas to protect growing northern industries.
Like any other Canadian court, Tax Court operates by treating each side of a dispute as equals while applying tax law, administrative law, constitutional law and the laws of evidence.
Like a 529 plan, Coverdell ESAs allow money to grow tax deferred and proceeds to be withdrawn tax free for qualified education expenses at a qualified institution.
Like Woolman, Benezet was also an advocate of war tax resistance.
Like all other overseas American cemeteries in France for World War I and II, France has granted the United States a special, perpetual concession to the land occupied by the cemetery, free of any charge or any tax.
Like most of his colleagues, Belcher could not make music his main occupation, and worked as tax assessor, schoolmaster, town clerk, and so on ; nevertheless he was considerably well known for his musical activities, and even dubbed ' the Handell of Maine ' by a local newspaper.
Like New Hampshire, Alaska has no state sales tax.
Like many other countries, nonprofits may apply for tax exemption status, so that the organization itself may be exempt from taxes.
Karlsson is one of the tallest golfers on the European Tour at Like many leading Swedish golfers he lives outside his home country, basing himself in the tax haven of Monaco.
Like all non-Muslims, Jews had to pay the harac (" head tax ") and faced other restrictions in clothing, horse riding, army service etc., but they could occasionally be waived or circumvented.
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