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    1. ‘It was typical Joris … he was clowning around after a particularly … exacting if successful job


    2. Still it adds a touch of the bizarre and the exotic to this exacting science of discipline and, as with all Yoga practices, there is sound good sense behind its methods


    3. Brancettrabble would be interested in his findings but was too bored with the exacting detail of the work to follow his daily observations


    4. It was at that most inopportune of moments that Ralph Stanley, in an insane attempt at exacting his revenge for the non-existent wrongs suffered at his nemesis's hand, also approached Harry from an alleyway off the dock's tarmac


    5. Lady Phyllis reminded Nerissa of her exacting mother, though not of course with


    6. By the removal of the unnecessary mouths, and by exacting from the farmer the full value of the farm, a greater surplus, or, what is the same thing, the price of a greater surplus, was obtained for the proprietor, which the merchants and manufacturers soon furnished him with a method of spending upon his own person, in the same manner as he had done the rest


    7. (These were portrayed in the Bible as metaphors and symbolism that demanded exacting skills of interpretation)


    8. would be the most exacting, the step that absolutely must run


    9. The investigation leads Jason back to an “almost anything goes” era that is exacting a huge price more than 40 years later


    10. True education is exciting and exacting

    11. possibly even amalgamations of multiple lives thus limiting the exacting nature of the recall


    12. meet the exacting specifications (especially for the flatness of the upper


    13. 22 "He said to him 'Out of your own mouth will I judge you you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man taking up that which I didn't lay down and reaping that which I didn't sow


    14. Admission to Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer School has generally been limited to males who must endure exacting and strenuous physical and water safety training


    15. "Can mariners of his world be so timid or unskilled as to often need aid in steering? Do they undertake only voyages less exacting?"


    16. He immediately began to reorganize the men ready to move out to the mines, but before they departed there was something that he knew he would need to find, but where could it be? The townsfolk were now busy tending to the wounded and dying, some exacting their revenge


    17. Of the two, I found the print publication more difficult, just because it required exacting attention to margins and bleed areas, page size, type-formatting (I spent hours just making sure none of the fleurons in the book were left hanging at the top of a new page) and so forth


    18. Violet’s rage at the man who had so ignominiously dumped her had reached incendiary level and without much effort she had persuaded Irma to join her in exacting retribution


    19. 8 The Essenes were a true religious sect, originating during the Maccabean revolt, whose requirements were in some respects more exacting than those of the Pharisees


    20. 12 Jesus received the obedience of his followers without exacting it

    21. In order to escape the exacting price of his exposure, he has to


    22. tempt Jesus into exacting His own will over


    23. The committee members were notorious for the grillings they could dish out and the career damage they could do to people that didn’t meet their exacting standards


    24. Still, exacting revenge on a fragile old woman was beneath his honor


    25. “I have been a willing slave to this exacting master for more than half a century


    26. The messenger caught up to us two hours into the march, we learned that the enemy were fifty strong, warriors of the Eagle, the much-feared personal bodyguard to the Teoti, we were very disappointed, we had fielded three thousand soldiers against a measly fifty, it looked as though our revolt was not being taken serious, they were heading in the direction of Tulancingo proceeding at a slow pace, they had no scouts out, the whole operation seemed to be very sloppy and undisciplined, the Teoti were not taking us serious at all, this captain of the Eagles certainly thought he was dealing with a rabble of misfits, a mistake he would not live to regret, with this information we sent the bulk of our forces back to Bo-elon, keeping only a hundred Toxon to engage the Eagle squad, we then hurried ahead to lay our trap in the small valley Coatl had chosen, we arrived there with plenty of time to spare, we took our places on either side of the valley, as we had planned time after time, six archers spread themselves every hundred yards to the road, Coatl and I had a vantage point on the highest ledge of the narrow valley, we watched as the column came down the road, the captain must have belonged to a Teoti noble family, he was being carried on a chair by eight slaves, the chair had a canopy to keep the sun off the aristocrat, as they came close to the valley, the first archer revealed himself, fired two shafts and scored two hits, the column halted and he released another arrow and another warrior collapsed, he then began to race away along the valley floor, the Teotihuacan army in hot pursuit, fifty feet further on and two Toxon arrows passed him and brought down the two leading Eagle warriors, he was joined by his two grinning companions as they ran ahead of the pursuit, the other four concealed bowmen remained hidden not being needed yet as the Eagle warriors showed no signs of giving up the chase, on reaching the fallen tree both archers turned about and stood waiting, bows at the ready, as the Eagle warriors came to within twenty paces of them, a whooshing noise filled the air, the Toxon warriors were exacting their vengeance, swift and bloody, each archer had been assigned a target and it became a matter of pride to see how many shafts you could put into the target before it dropped to the ground, it was over almost before it began, an almost comical ending came when the captain came around the bend, escorted by the remaining four Toxon bowmen from further down the valley, all of his arrogance and pride gone as the Toxon took it in turns to move him along by kicking his backside


    27. the exacting power of analytical deduction


    28. calculations more exacting but less accurate, because they depend on internal, rather than


    29. It is possible to use the more exacting calculations used in EVA models, i


    30. The latter approach is more conservative and exacting, and

    31. He remembered with exacting clarity the first time his feet had met the wood of this peer


    32. He’s exacting his revenge in my last cognizant minutes


    33. ‘Doing multiple shows in a single day can be exacting, but I had the passion for a fight and strongly believed that the Congress is part of India’s DNA, its ethos,’ he told me


    34. Exacting confessions to non-existent crimes is a mean of compelling victims to surrender their individually, to accept without question the truth as presented by the state


    35. He wanted time to really savor the exacting of that second piece of justice


    36. Police reports theorize that this masked thief is probably the vigilante who was executed not too long ago, who has survived and this is how he is exacting his revenge on the city but for now this is only speculation This reporter has to ask can someone stop this man or has more trouble come to New Star since the famous gang riots that took place just weeks ago? For NSC news I’m Mike Titus,” reported the News anchor


    37. Raising his voice again almost to a shout, he said, “It is stunning, exacting,


    38. minute after midnight, I have an exacting plan that will quickly stabilize the


    39. "Karma applies itself in the most exacting and clever of ways


    40. I was thinking that Rochelle and Sheridan wanted to give me a sense of belonging, but was caught off-guard when Marcus told me that he was the one who had drawn up plans and furnished the quarters to his own exacting specifications and personal likings

    41. On the whole she was very free from the moods Herr Dremmel had braced himself to bear, and continued right through not to be exacting


    42. The work was exacting, the harvesting slow; the stingy plants clung 362


    43. “Meaning, he probably feels that he has nothing to lose by exacting revenge for his


    44. Some of the girls were excluded as too weedy; some of the mothers because their babies were too new; some of the wives because their husbands were too exacting; but when Priscilla counted up the names she had written down she found there were twenty-five


    45. “If that was your duty then exacting retribution for the species is mine!”


    46. in the Celestina against the exacting duties of servants


    47. Michael was adept at exacting maximum potential from people


    48. plus wisdom will show the teacher just how exacting he can be


    49. I was especially grateful for the breeze when the chili beans began exacting


    50. vividly the high and exacting "Hear Ye, Israel" beautifully sung





































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    Synonyms for "exacting"

    exacting exigent stern strict fastidious

    "exacting" definitions

    having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures


    severe and unremitting in making demands


    requiring precise accuracy