Sentence examples for enormous fine from inspiring English sources

The phrase "enormous fine" is not correct in standard English usage.
It is typically intended to describe a large penalty or fee, but the adjective "enormous" does not commonly pair with "fine" in this context.
Example: "The city imposed an enormous fine for littering, which shocked many residents."
Alternatives: "huge penalty" or "massive fine."

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Companies will happily enter into such an agreement, and even pay an enormous fine, if it means avoiding prosecution.

You could receive an enormous fine and some jail time, and so could she (the maximum sentence for marriage fraud is five years in prison, a $250,000 penalty and her eventual deportation).

Falsely accused of having arranged the poisoning of Agnès Sorel, mistress of Charles VII, and of having engaged in dishonest speculation, he was arrested in 1451 and condemned to remain in prison until an enormous fine was paid.

Shares in the bank rose 3.4% on Tuesday after it announced it would pay a dividend of €1.50 a share – a surprise for some analysts who had assumed the 2014 dividend would be wiped out by the enormous fine.

The formula is simple: find a large company that may (or may not) have done something wrong; threaten its managers with commercial ruin, preferably with criminal charges; force them to use their shareholders' money to pay an enormous fine to drop the charges in a secret settlement (so nobody can check the details).

Yet on May 19th Credit Suisse, a multinational bank based in Switzerland, pleaded guilty to a criminal charge of having helped its customers elude America's tax authorities.The plea came with an enormous fine: $2.8 billion, much more than the $780m paid in 2009 by UBS, another big Swiss bank, for much the same offence.

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Violators are often forced to pay enormous fines, euphemistically called "social maintenance fees".

But he was forced to close down Avrupa because of the enormous fines imposed on it.

Moore has an even larger problem with the enormous fines being handed out, again primarily to defensive players.

Critics of this punish-the-corporation approach argue that even enormous fines have had little or no deterrent effect.

I come home to Sydney and find I would now have to pay enormous fines for all the above 'offences'offences

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