What is "exacting"

Usage examples of "exacting".

As Hillela had adapted her subject to the kind of expectations she sensed available in the alumnae, so she moved on to more exacting forums around the Eastern Seaboard, the Middle West and even California.

But though uttered by a Roman cardinal, even such an expression can hardly be termed violent when applied to the synod which established free elections to bishoprics, suppressed the right of bestowing the pallium, of exacting annates and payments to the papal chancery, and which was endeavouring to restore the papacy to evangelical poverty.

Perhaps you have even guessed that my name is indeed Ali Baba, and, especially you noisy lot in the back, perhaps you forget that I once was one of the most talented of woodcutters, and have retained a facility for the exacting use of exceedingly sharp instruments.

Pe Ell and Walker Boh glaring at each other from opposite corners of the hut - harsh, dark wraiths come from exacting worlds, their silent looks full of warning.

Would she, Rue, succeed in the exacting eyes of the great Brule Hatterick?

I was burning, but I was trying to master my impatience, for I did not think that I had yet the right to be exacting.

Perhaps a policeman had been killed up in one of the favelas, and they were exacting revenge.

After that initiation, which continued for several months, I was moved to the less physically demanding but more exacting work of learning to cut, turn and smooth the wood for the spokes and felloes of the wheels.

Isadora had been furious when she was told, and it had taken both of the more serene Fyne sisters to keep her from tracking down Kane and exacting her own style of revenge.

Each impactor and each launch had to meet exacting specification and schedule constraints to make the implosion as symmetrical as physics would allow, or the biggest fiasco in human history would result.

Establishing and making public the truth of the recent pastattributing responsibility to state officials for specific acts and in some cases exacting retribution-appears here as the ineluctable precondition for any democratic future.

He saw the Lawgiver crash to the ground, and in seconds the longhorn loomed above the man responsible for its capture, slashing repeatedly with its horns as if it was exacting revenge for its torment.

A liberated sigil retains its efficacy, without exacting the former pain-price.

And like noxious weeds they grew up sturdily, becoming bolder and bolder each day, exacting a bigger and bigger ransom from the fools who toiled and moiled, ever extending their thefts and marching along the road to murder.

I was a remorseless extra-biller, and it seemed to me that the more exacting I was, the more eager my aporetics and dismal sufferers were to reward me for my attentions.