Sentence examples for harsh fine from inspiring English sources

Anyone found driving when they shouldn't be has their plates taken away and must pay what Müller describes as a very harsh fine of 20 days' pay based on the Mexico City minimum wage.

These consumers now face the prospect of harsh fines and even jail time.

Alongside low wages, exceptionally long hours and physical abuse came harsh fines for small infringements of rules or "shoddy work".

India imprisons first-time offenders for up to six months and imposes harsh fines in an effort to combat high numbers of road deaths.

Life sentences, harsh fines, forfeitures of assets, billions spent on education and therapy all have failed to deter the drug wholesaler.

The law targets Hungarian media outlets, not individuals (though editors can be subjected to harsh fines for coverage that the government finds objectionable).

Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, seems to have achieved a clean and litter-free environment without the threat of harsh fines.

Alan Sears, president of the legal advocacy organization Alliance Defending Freedom, sees an unprecedented threat to religious liberty in the harsh fines facing employers who refuse to cover contraception in their insurance programs.

While China already promises harsh fines and jail sentences for people who catch, kill, traffic, buy and sell the animals, it has until now remained unclear on the potential consequences for eating them.

An honest employer who does things by the book would face an excruciating choice — to keep good workers despite dubious "no-match" letters and face harsh fines, or to fire them and face discrimination lawsuits.

A growing number of players have been critical of Goodell for levying harsh fines; now the commissioner is making the N.F.L. the enforcement arm of the N.C.A.A. Rookies were sacrificial lambs in the recently completed labor agreement; now the union is standing by while Goodell teaches Terrelle Pryor a lesson.