At the end, Kelley's character exacts revenge by ripping one of the plant's leaves.
This refers to the plethora of fees, levies, licences and bribes the bureaucracy exacts from business.
The government exacts a big price for the right to borrow from the discount lending window.
But it isn't long before he exacts some revenge for putting him on the spot like that.
Finally, many who are seduced by the romance of organic farming ignore the human toll it exacts.
Embedding such products exacts a premium both at the cash register and in terms of battery life.
With computer networks, compatibility is everything, and being out of the mainstream exacts a cost from the users.
But the manufacturing of new legal code exacts a toll of its own.
Malaria exacts a heavy economic price, in lost productivity, and it means sure death for several million children every year.
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King argues for a stronger federal government, one that exacts higher taxes from the wealthy to give to the less fortunate.
But you don't have to be in the Philippines long to feel the social toll that this policy of exporting labor also exacts.
The heavy voter turnout highlighted concerns among voter-rights groups about the nation's patchwork election system and the tax it exacts on citizens' time.
So far, the Obama administration's approach to free speech is that it's fine so long as it's cheap and exacts no political price.
It is an unimaginably demanding mission that inevitably exacts a toll.
Yet the price it exacts may be reflected in another statistic.
This "defined contribution" retirement exacts no punishment on job switchers.
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