Sentence examples for collecting fines from inspiring English sources

He said the Bloomberg administration had a voracious appetite for collecting fines to balance the budget.

So when the Shenyang government began collecting fines this year, many people assumed it was another effort to extort money from the masses.

Emaciated beggars haunt train stations, they said, while well-connected businessmen continue to grow rich from trading with China and government officials flourish by collecting fines and bribes.

Through their payrolls, they now have to do 23 jobs for the government, from doling out maternity pay and tax credits to collecting fines and student loan repayments.

Fines serve the same purpose as incentives and are less logistically complicated, given that an infrastructure for collecting fines is already in place.

The city is generally more successful in collecting fines on parking violations than on other violations, because drivers who delay payment receive continued and increasingly threatening notices.

When collecting fine limestone dust, a rotary flow cyclone performs considerably below manufacturer's expectations.

Current studies are limited by the difficulty involved in collecting fine-scale quantitative environmental data.

Jay's passions included flying, scuba diving, modern art and sculptures, collecting fine wines, and world history.

For two centuries Francophile Americans (including Thomas Jefferson and Gouverneur Morris, a United States Senator in 1800) have been collecting fine 18th-century French furniture.

At that time, much of Singapore's art scene was limited to art fairs; collecting fine art was a rare pastime for residents.