Sentence examples for fee a fine from inspiring English sources

The truth is: for the rich, the law is a paper tiger, easily circumvented by paying a "social compensation fee" — a fine of 3 to 10 times a household's annual income, set by each province's family planning bureau, or by traveling to Hong Kong, Singapore or even America to give birth.

He considered the difference between a fee and a fine to explain why carbon trading was not the way to solve climate change.

RUBIO: They have to qualify, pass background checks and pay a registration fee, pay a fine and renew it.

TODD: But he agrees with the president that it is not -- and he believes that you should not call the tax penalty a tax, you should call it a penalty or a fee or a fine?

"GreenButton is addressing the requirements of various service providers, including ISVs, developers and enterprises by enabling them to pay for compute and license fees in a fine grained way," he explained.

Whether or not you watch its programmes, if you have a television set you must pay the £112 licence fee, or risk a fine.

"I think that's a fine fee, and I really enjoy what I'm doing," he says.

Anderson made his frustration with Oxenford clear at the time and while he later apologised, he may still have to hand over a portion of his match fee by way of a fine if Richardson, the former West Indies captain who is overseeing his first Test series as a referee, decides to charge him under the ICC code of conduct.

A tip: If you're visiting London and prepared to part with the £25 — $40! — entry fee, be sure to pick a fine day.

Only one of the 15 (Texas) exempts penniless defendants from additional collection fees.All this occurs routinely, though the Supreme Court ruled in 1983 that before a court jails someone for failing to pay a fine or fee, it must first ensure that his failure to pay was wilful that he could have paid but chose not to.

According to people at the meeting, the White House aides and some of the environmentalists, including Carl Pope, the chairman of the Sierra Club, expressed their contempt for the linked fee: even if it was a fine idea on the merits, it was political poison.