EXEMPTION in a Sentence

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The government had argued that scrapping the exemption would have been deeply unhelpful to Britain and other member states.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXEMPTION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
exemption
 n.  permission not to do something
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  Only, I'm not idiot enough to pay more than the government makes me pay, and Sam and I were just figuring out whether all automobile expenses oughn't to be exemptions.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  To those cities they dealt with leniently, they granted exemptions and privileges, conferring upon them the rights of citizenship, and securing their welfare in every particular.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIII.
3  The best of us are not exempt from egotistical thoughts.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN...
4  Not a point in Paris nor in France was exempt from it.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
5  That stone is no more exempt than others from the leprosy of time, of dampness, of the lichens and from the defilement of the birds.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES
6  Your Italy is no more exempt from the evil than is our France.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES
7  Bonacieux, with a half-smile which was not exempt from a tinge of impatience.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS
8  Only," replied Treville, "it is a sad thing that in the unfortunate times in which we live, the purest life, the most incontestable virtue, cannot exempt a man from infamy and persecution.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 15 MEN OF THE ROBE AND MEN OF THE SWORD
9  During this time, exempt from the anxiety of its only and true chief, the royal army led a joyous life, neither provisions nor money being wanting in the camp.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 51 OFFICER
10  I will not dispute now whether princes are exempt from the laws of their country; but this I am sure, they owe subjection to the laws of God and nature.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
11  No body, no power, can exempt them from the obligations of that eternal law.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
12  She herself was not exempt from internal emotion, and without having done anything wrong, yet fully comprehended that Luigi was right in reproaching her.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits.
13  Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction--Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
14  Nancy, indeed, was not exempt from a failing which was very common among the Jew's female pupils; and in which, in their tenderer years, they were rather encouraged than checked.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
15  His father, whom he loved, he exempted from censure; as for himself, one thing followed another; and so he sat, with old fogies, looking at views.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
Example Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  The bill gives sensitive police files a blanket exemption.
2  The exemption you refer to certainly needs clarification.
3  Tax exemption only applies to those with non-resident status.
4  You qualify for a tax exemption on the loan.
5  The government had argued that scrapping the exemption would have been deeply unhelpful to Britain and other member states.
6  The EU decision does not spell out what types of information must be removed and does not provide exemptions for data that is true or from a reputable source.
7  Some students are exempt from certain exams.
8  Certain charities are exempt from VAT registration.
9  Men in college were exempt from military service.
10  South Carolina claimed the power to exempt its citizens from the obligation to obey federal law.
11  Infant mortality was extremely high and the upper classes were not exempt.
12  The interest is exempt from income tax.
13  The interest on the money is exempt from tax.
14  Students are exempt from some classes in the curriculum for religious reasons.
15  She is exempt from sex discrimination laws.