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The word 'fining' is not a commonly used word in English, and is not accepted as a correct word
You can use it in informal writing and speech as a verb for punishing someone by taking away something of value, as in "The judge fined him for his crime."
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fining
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Present participle of fine
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The trio scored well against ten criteria, including bringing in licensing schemes, fining lettings agents that break the law, prosecuting criminal landlords and running phone lines to give renters advice.
Critics questioned the wisdom of fining Network Rail for poor service at the time, as it reduced the amount of money available to the company to improve the tracks.
Related: Councils should help rough sleepers, not fine them Goulding posted a series of tweets saying she was "deeply concerned about how out of touch people can be", and added: "Some councils in England have decided to treat homeless people as though they are criminals and are going to start fining them".
Then she got a letter, with her receipt copy enclosed and six pages of explanation, fining her £58 for non-payment, which was the £60 fine minus the £2 cheque, but ignoring the £10 shop payment, which didn't count, they didn't want it, because one may not pay next day at a shop, (only on line or by telephone) which meant that officially Rosemary had paid for the wrong day.
Instead of threatening retaliatory measures, such as fining any American bank that opens accounts without requiring proof of identity, many have entered into agreements to accept FATCA, even though reciprocity is not on offer and the United States is not interested in international moves for more transparency.
Liverpool's fire service recently found 1.7 tonnes of fireworks illegally stored in a private house.Thirdly, enforcing better the existing law that bans sales to anyone under 18 can make a difference: in Liverpool, the authorities cut firework-related disorder by 20% last year by using hidden cameras to film shops that sold fireworks to children and then fining them.
Portugal is especially liberal: rather than fining users or punishing them in other ways (such as removing their driving licences), it usually just impounds their stash and sends them on a course of treatment and dissuasion.
There, a newly arrived and more middle-class black population faced a mostly white police department and white city leaders who essentially treated them as a source of revenue by constantly fining them for minor infractions.
They are busy campaigning against smoking in general, and smoking by teenagers ("children") in particular; and to that end some of the states are busy testing young people for traces of nicotine and, if the drug is found, revoking the malefactors' driving licences, ejecting them from sports teams and fining them as much as $1,000.
Some Russian deputies have even suggested fining cinemas that show too many foreign films, or banning foreign words.
Towards the end of last year, say Mr Chan and Jabez Lam, a Chinese civil-rights activist, immigration officials stepped-up their spot-checks of restaurants and takeaways, heavily fining proprietors who use illegal workers.
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