Levy

"Levy" in a Sentence (17 examples)

The airport improvement levy seems higher than last year.

All depositors with over €100,000 in Southern Cypriot banks will now have to pay 9.9 percent levy on their savings as part of a €10 billion bailout plan agreed on Friday, March 15.

Gideon Levy says that Israel is not a democracy.

But artistically, their influence would prove considerable — which art critics say speaks to just how far ahead of his time Mr. Levy was.

The king believed it would be more fitting to levy a tax that was lower than usual.

His Majesty saw fit to levy but a modest tax, deeming excess to be unbecoming of a just reign.

to levy a tax

In August, the company also announced that it would begin to levy fines on other vendors on its platform who over-package their products.

If they do this […] my ransom, then, / Will soon be levied.

Augustine […] inflamed Ethelbert, king of Kent, to levy his power, and to war against them.

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Albeit hee saw that the siege was levied

The new levying or inhancing of Weares Mills

1835-1847, Connop Thirlwall, The History of Greece A levy of all the men left under sixty.

The Irish levies.

The first is that French people are more concerned about the poor health of their democracy – since the carbon levy they have campaigned for democratic reform (though this has proven harder to deliver than the tax U-turn).

To make up for their losses at the battle they [the professional army of Harold II, Anglo-Saxon King of England] had gathered levies of men from the counties they passed through on their way south. […] Ranged alongside these professionals were the levies: farmers and peasants, for the most part, who had been straggling in from all over the southern counties during the previous few days [before the Battle of Hastings in 1066].

On some level, the filmmakers behind Monster Trucks must have recognized the ill fit of Till playing a teenager, because they cast Jane Levy, a 27-year-old who can pass for younger but not a decade younger, as Meredith, a nerdy classmate of Tripp’s who moons over him as she insists on making an appointment to tutor him in biology. […] Till is somewhere on the Hemsworth spectrum (more engaging than Liam; not as charismatic at Chris), but Levy is wholly charming as his enthusiastic sidekick.

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