"fines" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe any kind of monetary penalty which is imposed upon someone due to a violation of a law or agreement. For example: "The court fined the defendant for speeding."
He said companies faced severe fines or closure if they failed to comply with new rules on payment of wages, standards of accommodation and other aspects of the employment of migrant workers in the hyper-wealthy Gulf emirate.
Resentment is often sparked by the variation in the policing of the rules rather than the law per se – with many complaining that the rich are unaffected by fines that can cripple poorer households.
I currently include £2.5bn for all tax and spectrum fines etc in India and therefore this outcome would be positive from a valuation perspective.
Thousands of law-abiding motorists are having their cars towed away and are being charged fines of as much as £800 after unwittingly falling foul of car tax rule changes introduced by the DVLA.
The French authorities have recovered £188m in taxes and fines from a list of 3,000 clients and Spain has recovered £220m, also from 3,000 clients.
"They can't afford to pay, and before you know it the fines build up and they end up in prison.
The boss of Barclays, Bob Diamond, is under mounting pressure after the bank was hit with fines of £290m for its "serious, widespread" role in trying to manipulate the price of crucial interest rates that affect the cost of borrowing for millions of customers around the world.
Fines for Diouf and Bougherra and a touchline ban for McCoist, which he successfully appealed.
Jani Leinonen, the Finnish artist behind the project, explains that Hungary's homeless population can now "be fined for being out on the streets, and sent to jail for not paying three fines: it's basically the criminalisation of homelessness".
Europe's anti-trust regulator has accused Russia's massive gas monopoly, Gazprom, of unfair pricing practices in Moscow's former satellite states of eastern Europe, launching a legal dispute that could result in multibillion-euro fines for the Kremlin's giant energy company.
There should be a law requiring all company directors to pay any fines imposed by the courts for negligence since otherwise they just pass them on to their customers, and absolutely no bonuses should be paid in any years in which such fines are imposed.
