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That year saw a big change in the level and nature of fines exacted by the FSA: £34.9m ($54.6m) compared with £22.7m in 2008 and just £5.3m in 2007.Until 2009 most fines had been imposed for offences against the consumer.

Many banks have been chastened by the fines exacted on the likes of HSBC (who had to pay a record $1.9bn), and have been reducing their risks of money laundering and accusations of financing for terrorism.

Michael Adelson conducted a fine, exact performance.

Her pen-and-ink lines are fine, exact and unexpectedly loving towards her subjects.

His touch as a writer is so fine – exact, sensual, charged with history and politics.

The hard surface of the glass makes it easier to cut fine exact shapes without catching the tip of your craft blade in the softer mat.

In the UK, the Daily Mail has nagged at privacy questions over gathering Wi-Fi data while collecting Street View images; in the US the investigation of that collection led to a $25,000 fine from the Federal Communications Commission, while the Federal Trade Commission exacted a $25m fine after ad-tracking cookies were placed on iPhone and iPad users' systems despite security blocks.

The first structure was paid for by fines and by tolls exacted from its passengers.

Perhaps there are entrepreneurs, who in a fierce and public competition would come up with a plan that is more environmentally friendly (as attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo sued FreshDirect some years ago for letting its trucks idle too long, and exacted a significant fine) and offers better wages?

She says she'll push for legislation that will criminalize big businesses that take small business contracts by exacting fines or penalties.

The fine is one of the largest that the F.S.A. has ever exacted.