How To Use Exacting In A Sentence

This can not be done through any system of methods, neither are narrow interests or unexacting tasks sufficient to arouse all that the soul has now to give. The Unfolding Life A Study of Development with Reference to Religious Training
And the result doesn't just require immensely versatile singers, but a pit band that can carry out his exacting demands. Times, Sunday Times
On a rare recording, he can be heard to stumble on the next-to-last line-something unheard-of for one who enunciated so exactingly.
The casualness of these statements belied what I considered to be an exacting exchange system.
The Romanian-Jewish writer Mihail Sebastian 1907-45 came to the attention of the English-speaking world in 2000 with the publication of his incandescently angry and exacting World War II diaries. Tender and Tense

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It was exacting work and required all his patience.
His exacting personal standards, morose private nature and unapologetic misogyny often gave him a truculent, dyspeptic appearance which was well deserved.
Her flowers are exactingly painted, petal, leaf, and stalk; her plates and pheasants waiting to be plucked are textbook - perfect.
The exacting task of tracing the course of the Potomac to its headspring was undertaken by William Mayo and Robert Brooke acting for the Crown, and Benjamin Winslow and John Savage acting for Lord Fairfax.
Both gifted swordsmen, and both left-handed, uncle and nephew were putting on a skilled display-a show made more impressive by the fact that they were fighting in accordance with the most exacting rules of French dueling, but using neither the rapier-like smallsword that formed part of a gentleman's costume, nor the saber of a soldier. Dragonfly in Amber
Not for them exactingness, caprice, the gay or grave analysis of love and lover: such moods charm alone in lovely women, and even in _them_ bring risks along. Browning's Heroines
We often have the most exacting standards for ourselves that no one else would dream of applying. Training with N.L.P.
I have high ambitions and an exacting eye for detail. Times, Sunday Times
This surprises me for I've always thought of him as an exacting craftsman and, therefore, leery of artistic pretensions.
Mr. Bulluck said Mr. Coughlin had specifically and exactingly warned the team Saturday night that Tennessee would try to provoke personal fouls. Giants Reeling From Sloppy Play
At this time king Richard sent the abbat of Caen (who was also the elect of Durham) into England, to take an accompts of those that had the receipts of the kings monie: for this abbat had informed the king, that his receiuers and officers here in the realme dealt not iustlie in making their accompts, [Sidenote: Fraudulent dealing in officers.] but both deceiued the king, and oppressed his people, in exacting more than was due, and concealing that which they ought to stand accomptable for. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First
The parents and siblings of the summer school students will hopefully be less exacting. Times, Sunday Times
This regiment is mindful of the fact that in order to justify the confidence of those set in authority over us, it must strive in the future to measure up to an exacting standard of readiness. Dinner in Honour of The Toronto Scottish Regiment
He would not stoop to ask for any man's compliments, praises, flatteries; and he would be far above exacting them.
Astaire, a professional dancer from the age of 7, did all of his own choreography, and he was as exacting about corrections as the most persnickety repetiteur.
You may know me as an exactingly subtle novelist who peels away the artifices of European civilization to expose the twitching nerves of the human animal.
This point deserves attention, not for the sake of the miserable and ruinous advantage which is obtained by taunting an adversary in controversy with inconsistency till you drive him to improve his logical position by increasing the exactingness of his demands, but because the advocates of Home Rule (honestly enough, no doubt) confuse the matter under discussion by a strange kind of intellectual shuffle. England's Case Against Home Rule
There can be no doubt that exacting reparation is just and is fair. The Social and Economic History of Hungary: Its Present Outlook
Then he recalled the inanity and exacting requests of the great lady, and guessed how her reader was able to so boldly play his annoying trick. The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette
This time, what little elimination process existed was considerably less exacting. Times, Sunday Times
Those who are less exacting tend to appear more comfortable at the crease. Times, Sunday Times
The defending, though, would not have met his exacting standards. Times, Sunday Times
The deportment of Buddhist monks and novices is governed by many exacting rules, and phenomenological accounts of this celibate, contemplative way of life are available in a number of texts.
But the lawyer is always in a hurry; there is the clepsydra limiting his time, and the brief limiting his topics, and his adversary is standing over him and exacting his rights. Theaetetus
The woman worked her way around the table in mechanical fashion, quickly, but exactingly. True Story
Both men are aware their boss is very demanding, extremely exacting and has already shown he has no interest in failure. The Sun
He was also vaguely aware that if she had been a more brilliant woman she would have been a more exacting one, and less easily impressed. Emily Fox-Seton
He demonstrates how fiercely technical a craft climbing is, solitary, dangerous and exacting.
The confinement made him fretful and exacting, and the old Marquise ascribed the change in his behaviour to the deplorable influence of his tutor, a "laic" recommended by one of Raymond's old professors. The Custom of the Country
A consummate professional and master decorator, he has never presented work that does not meet his own exacting standards of design, even if it means outshining everybody else's masquerade.
products designed to meet the exacting standards of today's marketplace.
The parents and siblings of the summer school students will hopefully be less exacting. Times, Sunday Times
Minto's skilful treatment, became gorgeous enough for the most exacting Asiatic, with its black marble floor, its rose-coloured silk walls where great silver sconces alternated with full-length portraits of British sovereigns, its white "chunam" columns and its gilt Italian furniture. The Days Before Yesterday
Perhaps it represents the most exacting test of nerve in sport. Times, Sunday Times
I, personally, look forward to then spending the rest of my life hunting them down, per narrative convention, and exacting elaborately plotted revenge.
The exacting standards and the blunt warnings of the challenges appear not to deter the participants. Times, Sunday Times
_On the contrary, _ Seneca says (De Clementia ii, 4) that "the opposite of clemency is cruelty, which is nothing else but hardness of heart in exacting punishment. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
The exacting standards and the blunt warnings of the challenges appear not to deter the participants. Times, Sunday Times
It was easily possible for entire families to subsist the year around on the fruits of land and water plus unexacting manual labor. The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia
Tolstoy set out for Germany in 1857, anxious to study social conditions that he might learn how to raise the hapless serfs of Russia, bound, patient and inarticulate, at the feet of landowners, longing for independence, perhaps, when they suffered any terrible act of injustice, but patient in the better times when there was food and warmth and a master of comparatively unexacting temper. Heroes of Modern Europe
Yet all this training, apparently, is still failing to produce referees who meet our exacting standards. Times, Sunday Times
an exacting job
These are difficult phenomena to operationalise and measure, and the procedure for participants was lengthy and exacting.
Angels of Modernism is one of those rare beasts: an academic monograph that is both intellectually exacting and engaging. The Times Literary Supplement
This is a much more precise and exacting standard than just suggesting that a person or body in whom a discretionary power is vested must exercise that power reasonably.
With an exacting attention to detail, Kees combines reality derived from photographs, memory and studies from life with creative imagery to convey his vision.
Troll's exclusive, personalized luggage is made to our own exacting specifications in heavy-duty PVC/nylon.
Toyota Genuine Replacement Parts are all made to the same exacting standards as those fitted to your car from new.
Mathematics is a notoriously technical subject that prizes exactingly precise statements. Wolfram Blog : 2008 : August
Yet all this training, apparently, is still failing to produce referees who meet our exacting standards. Times, Sunday Times
First they bought in other people's tackle and then began making their own to exacting standards. Times, Sunday Times
No one could be unwilling to take care of one so unexacting. Girls and Women
The exacting demands of the theatrical calling dims the luster that lured the deluded one recklessly to enter the seemingly attractive circle, to appear as the make-believe heroines of romance on the stage. A Pirate of Parts
I have no qualms with the premise of a pimp exacting vengeance from beyond the grave.
The defending, though, would not have met his exacting standards. Times, Sunday Times
But their exacting curriculum, tough competition and reclusive campus lifestyle have taken a toll on students.
Those two tiny thumbs started letting each card down, slowly, and exactingly. Shuffle
An exacting eye for detail masks the lonely and sensitive nature of butler Mr Pritchard. The Sun
And the result doesn't just require immensely versatile singers, but a pit band that can carry out his exacting demands. Times, Sunday Times
She was renowned for her exacting standards. Times, Sunday Times
She was neither muscled nor cruel, but yet had an exacting eye for detail and always spoke directly and bluntly.
First they bought in other people's tackle and then began making their own to exacting standards. Times, Sunday Times
Yet all this training, apparently, is still failing to produce referees who meet our exacting standards. Times, Sunday Times
An appeal is an expensive step in the judicial process and one that makes an exacting claim on judicial resources.
The reasons given by the industrialist associations of Germany for retaining possession of Belfort as indispensable for the preservation of their country against our ideas of revenge are the same as those of Barrés exacting Mayence to protect us against the velleities of invasion by the Boches. Time Regained
A current staffer says she ‘can be exacting, but she is not a screamer, not a diva type at all.’
I didn't have to worry whether water taxis, hotels and restaurants were up to his exacting standards.
Designers are flexible and intuitive rather than rigid and exacting.
For years Nazi Germany's policy abroad has been that of exacting concessions with the threat that otherwise she will perpetrate a world horror by which the humane will be excruciated while she herself, not being humane, will be entertained if not exhilarated. What Is Now At Stake In Europe
Critics of globalization argue that it marginalizes the majority while exacting too high a toll on the environment.
It's an environment that is and highly exacting: every hangnail a sin, every eye - bag a crime.
Managers do not have to hold the hand of each new supplier as they are brought up to speed with the exacting demands of high-performance engineering. Times, Sunday Times
Anyone who doesn't fit your exacting social standards will feel your acid tongue. Times, Sunday Times
Though there would be exceptions—Android and YouTube, for instance—most Google products, while exactingly rethought and tweaked during the design process, were similarly left to find their way in the world by themselves. In the Plex
How many still do, and still print the little black margins around their images to inform the viewer of their exacting practice?
But over the next nearly nine minutes, back-up quarterback Vince Young—playing because Michael Vick was out with two broken ribs—methodically, exactingly and painfully slowly moved the Eagles down field. Giants Stunned at Home by the Eagles—Again
His method was exacting, allowing no possibility of alteration or modification.
It is built to meet our own stringent stringent standards and more importantly, to satisfy your own exacting demands.
For instance, about a third of the fund is invested in Japan because the managers have found lots of companies there that meet their exacting requirements. Times, Sunday Times
We often have the most exacting standards for ourselves that no one else would dream of applying. Training with N.L.P.
But their exacting curriculum, tough competition and reclusive campus lifestyle have taken a toll on students.
On the whole, when feeling angry and wronged, women act with more speed and less thought of exacting longterm damage. Times, Sunday Times
At the same time, Western artists are exacting and relentless in their pursuit of historical verisimilitude.
In 1964 he began to build his reputation in the exacting role of anchorman for the general election results programme. Times, Sunday Times
And the result doesn't just require immensely versatile singers, but a pit band that can carry out his exacting demands. Times, Sunday Times
But by the exacting standards of single Chinese women, it seems, Mr. Wang lacks that bankable attribute known as real property.
Winner was an exacting man who expected impeccable service. Times, Sunday Times
certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements
First they bought in other people's tackle and then began making their own to exacting standards. Times, Sunday Times
The frenetic pace of modern life, the dominance of capital, hype, noise and speed is exacting a terrible price on the people of God struggling to be faithful.
The exacting standards and the blunt warnings of the challenges appear not to deter the participants. Times, Sunday Times
But falsehood is so unexacting, needs so little help to make itself manifest! The Captive
This time, what little elimination process existed was considerably less exacting. Times, Sunday Times
On the whole, when feeling angry and wronged, women act with more speed and less thought of exacting longterm damage. Times, Sunday Times
But politics would seem to call for fairly exacting acuity, and Michal Rovner's swoony images of intractable real-world problems have angered some viewers.
It is not exacting with regard to temperature and is suitable for tropical as well as cold-water aquariums.
Requirements regarding the carbon dioxide used for deaeration and for expelling the nitrogen are very much more exacting than one had hitherto been accustomed, and it was found necessary to develop a carbon dioxide supply which was completely free from air. Fritz Pregl - Nobel Lecture
In part this is because of the exacting testing procedures new cars must go through. Times, Sunday Times
A highly versatile property that has been sympathetically restored and upgraded to exacting standards.
She was like the kind lady who, happening to linger at the circus while the rest of the spectators pour grossly through the exits, falls in with the overworked little trapezist girl -- the acrobatic support presumably of embarrassed and exacting parents -- and gives her, as an obscure and meritorious artist, assurance of benevolent interest. The Golden Bowl — Complete
More than this there is a sense that the emotional notes are perhaps muted, that we crave something more flawed, a more rugged and potholed contest, less exactingly marshalled and stewarded. World Cup 2010: How a love of Spain can make for a sterile affair
For instance, about a third of the fund is invested in Japan because the managers have found lots of companies there that meet their exacting requirements. Times, Sunday Times
Our guns are so exacting their parts are interchangeable with first generation Colts.
Donoghue's a true historian, whose period detail is exacting enough to please the most pedantic of pedants, while her style displays an intimacy with the past that's both unpretentious and modern.
Citing flaws in the original trial, they obtained a court order to have the bloodstain from the sweatpants subjected to more exacting, DNA testing. After 15 years in prison, man cleared
The designed product of the slave system, which Dr. Steel calls "a mild and humane system of bondage," was a dehumanized and bestialized thing, and there was no stone left unturned, no vigilance was deemed to exacting, no privations and cruelty too heartless, and no punishment too severe and diabolical to compass the end desired. Africa and the American Negro...Addresses and Proceedings of the Congress on Africa Held Under the Auspices of the Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa of Gammon Theological Seminary in Connection with the Cotton States and International Exposition De
The cruel exactingness of Emperor Wu's laws was also modeled upon Ch'in Legalist practices. The History of the Former Han Dynasty
Show us an unexacting superstar! Times, Sunday Times
Under the proposed bill, they will be subject to less exacting standards in order to test new technologies, train crew, or fly working vehicles in the process of gaining a full license for paying customers.
Swett was ready with Lincoln to give and take in storyland, as was Lamon, and either of them, and sometimes all of them, often dropped in upon Lincoln and gave him an hour's diversion from his exacting cares. Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller
Sceptics in the media have always seen opinion polls as crooked: not as deceitful as horoscopes, but way short of the exacting standards met by the racing tipsters.
This species is not exacting with respect to light and soil composition, but disappears in tanks with a high nutrient content.
The exacting standards and the blunt warnings of the challenges appear not to deter the participants. Times, Sunday Times
Both men are aware their boss is very demanding, extremely exacting and has already shown he has no interest in failure. The Sun
They approved of a policy of dealing sternly with Germany; exacting reparations rather than paying taxes. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
There is enough echt samurai swordplay to satisfy the most exacting martial arts fan, and yet somehow I can't see Tarantino lifting any of this.
Erin, who is cruel and exacting, has a particularly brutal exercise where she has us canter between the two rails of an oxer, or spread fence, so that we are perfectly straight as we approach a crossrail. And now for something completely different
The Virago was a prized possession, a heavily modified MandalMoters StarViper built to his exacting specifications.
If the browsers at the museum appear transient, casual, and random, the art they come to see is still, exacting, and formal.
His mind was so fertile in ideas and analogies, his quest for precision so exacting that, even if he had been able to complete his revision, it is unlikely that he would ever have been satisfied with it.
They are the first Irish school to have competed in the competition, and qualified for the finals after two exacting trips to England.
I expected tantrums, but he took it well - exacting his revenge merely by giving me all my change in coins.
Life on that island is marked by an uneasy tension, the juxtaposition of living surrounded by that which is at once beneficent and at the same time terribly exacting in its toll on human flesh.
He is dark-haired, intense, exacting, and with a quick smile.
The parents and siblings of the summer school students will hopefully be less exacting. Times, Sunday Times
Some of the dioramas were repainted up to six times until they matched his exacting standards.
On the whole, when feeling angry and wronged, women act with more speed and less thought of exacting longterm damage. Times, Sunday Times
But Mrs Eames was a kind, patient, unexacting woman, who took all civil words as meaning civility. The Small House at Allington
I have high ambitions and an exacting eye for detail. Times, Sunday Times
Bligh's hydrographical and charting talents had once impressed even so exacting a sea dog as Capt. Bounteous Misperceptions
Although he had a lifelong interest in philosophy, his exacting personal standards permitted only a few published articles in our field.
The moment, however, he published in octavo volumes a solid history, and appended to the bottom of each page the obscure authorities on which his narrative was founded, and which plainly exhibited the capacity of the brilliant declaimer to perform all the austerest duties of the drudge, his reputation marvellously increased among the most frigid and most exacting dispensers of praise. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861
When procedures become so exacting and time-consuming, the exercise of judgment is deemed neither necessary nor possible. Times, Sunday Times
So you'll know then not to use your own excruciatingly exacting standards as a yardstick for judging others this week, won't you?
Christine Goerke not only plays Armida with sly wit, but she also sings the exacting fioriture and lyrical arias with razor-sharp precision and elegant musicianship.
Alas, this deep insatiableness of sense, the dreary vacuity of soul that follows fulness of animal delight, the restless exactingness of undirected imagination, was never recognised by Rousseau distinctly enough to modify either his conduct or his theory of life. Rousseau
Gaining Compliance with exacting Automotive and Aerospace Pyrometry Standards" by Kevin Robinson - Metallurgist at Eurotherm, talks about a new graphic recorder specifically designed to help the heat treater gain compliance with AMS2750D, CQI-9 and other exacting automotive and aerospace pyrometry standards. ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds
Hammerstein's tendency towards thin characterisation, philosophical naivety and self-conscious poeticisms don't meet his pupil's exacting standards. Finishing the Hat: The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim by Stephen Sondheim – review
But if you be coming to plead off paying for a place you won't occupy, your journey is useless: I never relent in exacting my due from anyone.'
They believed the celestial motions are performed with exacting regularity, just as the harmony of musical sounds depends on regular intervals.
When she speaks, and she is a dramatic storyteller, her voice seems modulated to correspond to the mood of the moment with an exacting precision.
It was also, I learned, scrolling down, a hellhole manned by human ferrets, with overflowing toilets and mephitic smells that had tragically ruined the honeymoon of vox12populi and Iwantmyrum, who were now exacting revenge by describing their nightmarish experience on every message board they could find. You Don't Say?
Parsinen unashamedly drew from the dunes of Cruden Bay, the greens of Royal Dornoch and the legendary humps, hollows and bunkers of the Old Course to fashion a links that is exacting, but fun to play.
relaxed and unexacting standards
round voyage," as was the of the case with the LADY ARBELLA, though it is to be hoped there was no "demurrage" clause, exacting damage, as is usual, for each day of detention beyond the "lay days" allowed, for the long and unexpected tarries in Cape Cod and Plymouth harbors must have rolled up an appalling "demurrage" claim. The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete
It was exacting work and required all his patience.
Injuries may hurt but the pain of not being able to reach his own exacting standards would be harder to deal with.
Luckily, staff appeared with the starters and managed to exceed the exacting standards the bachelors were demanding.
That in one and another way the cruel competition for the dollar, the new and exacting habits of business, the racing speed which the telegraph and railway have introduced into commercial life, the new value which great fortunes have come to possess as means towards social advancement, and the overeducation and overstraining of our young people, have brought about some great and growing evils, is what is now beginning to be distinctly felt. Wear and Tear or, Hints for the Overworked
Rights to perform were closely negotiated before enactment and exactingly compensated afterwards.
Today, two centuries later, the struggle for precision continues as meteorologists devise ever more exacting techniques to measure quantities either so teeny or so gigantic that they had once been judged unmeasurable.
Injuries may hurt but the pain of not being able to reach his own exacting standards would be harder to deal with.
He demands exacting workmanship of himself as well as of his men. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
Applying his exacting, respectful attention to the everyday speech of the people as well as the notable speech of poets, philosophers, and presidents, he allows each to elevate the other.
The Companies (Auditing and Accounting) Bill would require more exacting scrutiny by auditors and accountants.
She set her clean canvas firmly upon the easel, as a barrier, frail, but she hoped sufficiently substantial to ward off Mr Ramsay and his exactingness. To the Lighthouse
Perhaps it represents the most exacting test of nerve in sport. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps it represents the most exacting test of nerve in sport. Times, Sunday Times
He declined because at the time he believed there was no manufacturer that could mass-produce colors to his exacting standards.
She was renowned for her exacting standards. Times, Sunday Times
In part this is because of the exacting testing procedures new cars must go through. Times, Sunday Times
The Governess sings throughout her exacting part with skill and understanding.
Rhode Island Bent, known as redtop, is less exacting, and where it thrives to the exclusion of timothy, or is in evidence in grass lands, the inference is fairly safe that a test would show that the soil is sour. Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement
The parents and siblings of the summer school students will hopefully be less exacting. Times, Sunday Times
Moreover, his perpetual struggle with men and things leave them no time for the coxcombry of fashionable genius, which makes haste to gather in the harvests of a fugitive season, and whose vanity and self-love are as petty and exacting as a custom-house which levies tithes on all that comes in its way. Modeste Mignon
Large profits were made from booty and ransom, and by exacting protection money from the cities.
Those who are less exacting tend to appear more comfortable at the crease. Times, Sunday Times
But on the other hand, it must be remembered that her standard of exactingness was 'high, and some of the things that in her eyes it was merely culpable to leave undone might be counted by others among virtues of supererogation. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy
Sceptics in the media have always seen opinion polls as crooked: not as deceitful as horoscopes, but way short of the exacting standards met by the racing tipsters.
While the wizards were most certainly using spells to scour the mountainsides for spies or scouts, it would take a magus of exacting skill to locate her.
His thin frame and weak legs prevented him from taking an active part in games of football, tennis or cricket, but he made an exacting umpire, and woe betide the player who questioned his decisions.
Anyone wishing to try the exacting yet exciting sport of orienteering is invited to attend Ebor's event at the White Horse, Kilburn on Sunday, January 19.
She was an exacting woman to work for.
The table makes use of the Japanese mortice and tenon joint, which is an elaborate and exacting piece of carpentry.
Erin, who is cruel and exacting, has a particularly brutal exercise where she has us canter between the two rails of an oxer, or spread fence, so that we are perfectly straight as we approach a crossrail. Yatima » 2009 » November
This was renewed every hour of the day; for Roseton's fancy indulged the frequent and the casual lavation, and his exacting taste demanded the strictest purity. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
Sea, fed on moldy bread, and even moldier pork, with a fretful child to nurse, and an exacting mother to be pleased! Told in the East
Gemstone carving, known as glyptography, is an exacting endeavor in which only the gifted and patient achieve success.
And let's say she stands to face him squarely as the music climbs and she glances past his shoulder, past the folds of his garment, and through the bevelled window she can see the sky so wildly blue and she feels the jump and shiver of something urgent and exacting, and there is no one on the dance floor but those two. One Slow Dance with Buddha
Musically, this debut is lovingly and exactingly orchestrated with an array of instruments - not just the usual piano, cello, and drums, but also flute, organ, melodica, and horns - that subtly shade the songs' emotions.
We have matured from the level of exacting punishment as described in the Old Testament of "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," because if we had not, we'd be a nation of blind people gumming our Cream of Wheat. October 2006
Scott threw himself with enthusiasm into this exacting assignment.
Given that she was a pains to emphasis that flood plain development is to continue, regardless of the untold misery it's exacting on our fellow countrymen and women, I can't think of a more callous comment or more apt death warrant for Ms Cooper's Ministerial career. Bitter Funny and True
An exacting eye for detail masks the lonely and sensitive nature of butler Mr Pritchard. The Sun
When their controls proved unavailing, and the charges failed to meet their exacting code of conduct, they could be seen meting out punishments that were also immoderate, disproportionate to the supposed offense.
Alas, this deep insatiableness of sense, the dreary vacuity of soul that follows fulness of animal delight, the restless exactingness of undirected imagination, was never recognised by Rousseau distinctly enough to modify either his conduct or his theory of life. Rousseau
All of these markets have exacting requirements for pure uncontaminated raw material.
You may be too easily irritated or despondent, exasperating friends and family with exacting demands and finicky attitudes.
I almost expected him to say something about exacting that pain to me, but he merely bowled me over with a charging headbutt, smashing me into the wall.
The total of these conditions is a demand; a relentless, exacting demand upon those fundamental resources, land and water.
But what surely daunted him most was facing his most exacting critic - himself.
But sober, academically exacting attempts to deal with modern mysticism and the occult as an important part of that intellectual and cultural life are comparatively recent.
He demands exacting workmanship of himself as well as of his men. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
His next exploit was to fight and conquer the Minyans, who had been exacting a burdensome tribute from the Thebans.
Renovated to exacting standards and in turnkey condition, Millridge offers comfortable living in beautiful surroundings.

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