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How to use the word excise in a Sentence?

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As I have traveled around the state and spoken with constituents and parents, it has become clear to me that this is one of the most significant threats facing our society today, we must find where these insidious theories and philosophies are lurking and excise them from our education system.

Janice McGeachin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

God willing we will implement it this year, we are optimistic, the right fiscal instrument to reduce a tendency to consume something dangerous is an excise duty.

Sri Mulyani

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

(Recycling) is more effective for zero waste, there will be no waste, an excise duty on plastic bags is useless.

Budi Susanto Sadiman

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

An excise duty on plastic bags is useless.

Budi Susanto Sadiman

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

With revenues down, fiscal deficits are only slowly declining, despite significant reforms on both the spending and revenue sides, including the introduction of VAT and excise taxes, this has led to a sharp increase in public debt, from 13 percent of GDP in 2013 to 33 percent in 2018.

Christine Lagarde

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Take out, excise, surgically remove the backstop, OK? thats the problem, thats the lobster pot, thats the trap that keeps us locked in the customs union and means we have this terrible Hobsons choice between, as it were, sacrificing Northern Ireland orremaining subject to the E.U. without having any say in the E.U.

Boris Johnson

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The existing black lung excise tax rate on coal companies is imperative to the long-term solvency of the trust fund.

Bobby Scott of Virginia

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

This only hits brewers. We pay all the taxes that other small businesses pay, and then on top of that, we paid this excise tax.

Leslie Henderson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

In so doing, they learned that a specific request was made to excise that portion of the briefing. We do not know who made the request to edit the video or why it was made.

John Kirby

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Loan waivers are not the solution; it is like a simple dressing for a cancer tumour. You need to excise the tumour and address the cause of the disease.

Kishor Tiwari

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are on safe ground with this bill, ... This is a foundational protection for the free excise of religion.

Scott Schneider

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Well, now, this is exactly my case. I am in love; and my sweetheart is LIBERTY. Be that heavenly nymph my companion, and these wilds and .Woods shall have charms beyond London and Paris in slavery. To have no proud monarch driving over me with his gilt coaches; nor his host of excise-men and tax-gatherers insulting and robbing me ; but to be my own master, my own prince and sovereign, gloriously preserving my national dignity, and 'pursuing my true happiness; planting my vineyards, and eating their lucious fruits; and sowing my fields, and reaping the golden grain: and seeing millions of ‘brothers all around me, equally free and happy as myself. “This, sir, is What I long for.” p. 155 ... On his return to Georgetown, he was asked by colonel Watson, why he looked so serious? I have cause, sir,” said he, “to look serious.” Watson What! has general Marion refused to treat?” No, sir.” “Well, then, has old Washington defeated sir Henery Clinton, and broke up our army ? No, sir, not that neither ; but worse.” “Ah! what can be worse?” Why, sir, I have seen an American general and his officers, without pay, and almost without clothes, living on roots and drinking water ; and all for LIBERTY! What chance have we against such men!” It is said colonel Watson was not much obliged to him for this speech. But the young ofiicer was so struck with Marion’s sentiments, that he never rested until he threw up his commission, and retired from the service. ' p 156

Francis Marion

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9 years ago

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