Sentence examples for harsh fines from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

At their recent annual meeting, the general managers took a middle path, calling instead for stricter enforcement of boarding and charging rules, and for harsher fines and suspensions.

New Yorkers angry about trash on their sidewalks tend to propose the obvious solutions: more litter baskets at more corners, more frequent collection, harsher fines for violators.

New York State Department of Financial Services chief Benjamin Lawsky presides over an agency that is three years old and has pushed for harsher fines and executive accountability for banks including Standard Chartered and BNP Paribas.

The commission may levy fines up to 10percentt of a company's sales in the most recent full year, but Roche and the other cartel participants avoided the harshest fines by cooperating with the investigations, the commission said in its statement.