Sentence examples for exorbitant fines from inspiring English sources
State law already prohibits public employees from striking, but in 1999 and 2002, the city went to court to impose exorbitant fines on any employee who walked out.
An anti-terror law that stipulates exorbitant fines, and possible suspension from employment, for "false" reporting on militant attacks has come into effect in Egypt.
Protecting reputations - corporate or individual - and upholding points of view is best done by argument and persuasion: it should not be a matter for courts carrying the punishment of exorbitant fines or imprisonment.
For journalists trying to cover events here, while Chad's constitution guarantees media freedom, the reality is somewhat different.In August 2010, a repressive Press law was passed allowing for exorbitant fines for defamation and the suspension of newspapers for up to three years if they transgress.
In order to maintain some semblance of order, cones, double white lines, police cars and exorbitant fines are used to keep motorists from switching lanes.
Last year, the government passed a highly repressive press law that includes exorbitant fines for reporting on the state or impugning the president.
If a woman gets pregnant without permission and is unable to pay the often exorbitant fine for violating the policy, she risks being subjected to a forced abortion.
Chinese parents giving birth in the US can skirt China's one-child policy – a priority for couples such as Ms Zhang and Mr Wei, who might otherwise face an exorbitant fine by the Communist government.
Heavy-handed and infuriatingly arbitrary traffic patrols, mass collection of their locational data, grossly exorbitant fees and fines, statutorily unavoidable "checkpoints," the ever-present threat of (age/gender/racial) profiling, relinquishment of due process rights the list goes on, and on, and on.
Mr Dogan has now been ordered to provide collateral worth some $3.2 billion to support his appeal against an exorbitant $2.5 billion fine that was slapped on his group, Dogan Yayin, for alleged tax fraud in early September.
He regarded the fine exorbitant - but what still rankles in the memory is the fact that his broken right hand stopped him playing cards for two weeks!
