Word Finder - exacting

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To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way.

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to exact tribute, fees, or obedience from someone

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To make desirable or necessary.

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To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce.

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to exact revenge on someone

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Making excessive demands; difficult to satisfy.

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(of an action, task, etc) Requiring precise accuracy, great care, effort, or attention.

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(of a person or organization) Characterized by exaction.

These exacting tasks did not absorb all his energies.

Howie described the car, license plate, and man in exacting detail.

Every child dreams of slaying dragons, hitting the game-winning homerun, rescuing the oppressed and exacting justice on the villain.

But yes, it was very interesting work, quite exacting, you know.

His own standards of research were so exacting that he published far less than he should have done.

Although dressage is an extremely exacting sport, remember to enjoy the day and that everyone, even top riders, make mistakes.

And when the present is so exacting, who can annoy himself about the future?

With those about him, from his daughter to his serfs, the prince was sharp and invariably exacting, so that without being a hardhearted man he inspired such fear and respect as few hardhearted men would have aroused.

A pure diamond is the crystalline form of carbon, free from additional minerals or elements that may distort the stone and its exacting structure.

Majella Cullagh's Pia is remarkable - technically exacting, and remorselessly exposing the woman's physical, moral and emotional hell.

Whilst the technology and development becomes more exacting they remain only the tools to emulate nature.

All entrants have to pass an exacting medical examination to join.

Quality control At our manufacturing facility near Sacramento, California, skilled craftspeople build our spa gazebos to exacting specifications.

There too, there is an exacting cultural reclamation of theme and material previously considered intractable to creative expression.

Solo is built to last, manufactured to exacting traditional standards and finished in superb maple or cherry veneers and solid woods.

The modes of government amongst civilized peoples have little influence on political geography; some republics are as arbitrary and exacting in their frontier regulations as some absolute monarchies.

In private life his ease of bearing, friendliness, and, above all, his inexhaustible fund of humour and irony, won him a large circle of friends; and judges so exacting as Mmes de Stael and de Remusat and Lord Brougham avowed their delight in his society.

When a confederacy was organized under a council, intermarriage between tribes sometimes occurred; an artificial kinship thus arose, in which event the council established the rank of the tribes as elder and younger brother, grandfather, father and sons, rendering the relationship and its vocabulary most intricate, but necessary in a social system in which age was the predominant consideration and etiquette most exacting.

He was energetic in the discharge of his duties, but aroused much animosity among the colonists by his zeal in looking after the royal quit-rents, and by exacting heavy fees for the issue of land-patents.

She took no pains with her manners or with delicacy of speech, or with her toilet, or to show herself to her husband in her most becoming attitudes, or to avoid inconveniencing him by being too exacting.

They will also conform to the exacting standards of the decorator in your family.

Just because you've decided to search for love online doesn't mean you should lower your exacting standards for what you want in a man.

Finally, I'm afraid I get my rather exacting sense of perfection from her.

The wrong princess dress equates with the wrong princess fantasy, and you may be surprised to learn just how exacting your child can be when it comes to her other worldly machinations.

If your professor has exacting requirements, and an off-the-shelf paper won't do, there are even sites with stables of writers who will create custom papers in any subject.

At the graduate level, research is exacting and must be documented.

Every level and every function was exposed to exacting scrutiny and loving craftsmanship.

Wine wasn't always made in such an exacting way as we make it today.

Although an essential component of the NE, the sensory examination is the least informative and least exacting since it requires patient concentration and cooperation.

Once you apply these basic feng shui bedroom principles, move on to the more exacting principles involving bed locations and placement.

With Pur, color is more than just a fashion statement or style expression; it truly is an exacting science.

Couples interested in the finest diamonds may want to examine Kay's selection of Leo Diamonds, stones that are independently measured and graded according to exacting standards.

Because the jewelry industry has exacting standards for judging diamond quality, a raw diamond must progress through many steps before it is finally set into a stunning engagement ring, diamond necklace, or pair of diamond stud earrings.

He brought the same exacting precision to the watchmaking world that he had to the aviation world.

Cheerleading routines and cheers rely heavily on tight, exacting, and almost military like motions.

Their recording facilities are capable of creating pieces to the most exacting digital specifications.

The canons respecting the clergy exhibit the clergy as already a special class with peculiar privileges, a more exacting moral standard, heavier penalties for delinquency.

O'Neill, however, refused to put himself in the power of Sussex without a guarantee for his safety; and his claims in other respects were so exacting that Elizabeth consented to measures being taken to subdue him and to restore Brian.

The preliminary preparation for research of any value becomes yearly more exacting.

This task, however, has grown more difficult and exacting.

We cannot place Ariantas, who made a kind of census of the nation by exacting an arrow-head from each warrior and cast a great cauldron out of the bronze, nor Taxacis and Scopasis, the under-kings in the time of Idanthyrsus.

Living in the interval between Ennius and Lucilius, whose original force and genius survive only in rude and inartistic fragments, he produced six plays, which have not only reached our time in the form in which they were given to the world, but have been read in the most critical and exacting literary epochs, and still may be read without any feeling of the need of making allowance for the rudeness of a new and undeveloped art.

At the beginning of his reign he ordered a recast of the coinage, with serious results to commerce; civil officials were deprived of offices, which had been conferred free, but were now put up to auction; duties were imposed on exported merchandise and on goods brought into Paris; the practice of exacting heavy fines was encouraged by making the salaries of the magistrates dependent on them; and on the pretext of a crusade to free Armenia from the Turks, Charles obtained from the pope a tithe levied on the clergy, the proceeds of which he kept for his own use; he also confiscated the property of the Lombard bankers who had been invited to France by his father at a time of financial crisis.

Upon the accession of President McKinley in 1897, he resigned from the Senate and became secretary of state; but under the tension of the war with Spain the duties of the office became too exacting for his strength at his age, and in April 1898 he resigned and withdrew into private life.

From this point of view he would have been perhaps the first historian of philosophy of his time, had his professional labours been less exacting.

Before his coronation he had renounced the right, so jealously guarded by Henry V., of assisting in the election of bishops and abbots, and he even undertook to refrain from exacting homage from the prelates and to content himself with fealty.

After the return from Moscow the emperor negotiated with his prisoner a new and more exacting concordat, but two months later the repentant pope abrogated this treaty and declared all the official acts of the new French bishops to be invalid.

In spite of the exacting and severe routine of the Round Hill school, Bancroft contributed frequently to the North American Review and to Walsh's American Quarterly; he also made a translation of Heeren's work on The Politics of Ancient Greece.

Barsbai appears to have excelled his predecessors in the invention of devices for exacting money from merchants and pilgrims, and in juggling with the exchange.

At the beginning it is said that the Samaritans were prosperous and persecuted the Jews, but this Jewish hero embracing his opportunities reversed the situation and presumably paid the tribute due from the Jews by exacting more from the non-Jewish inhabitants of his province.