In stark contrast with France, where heavy taxes punish big earners, Switzerland imposes no wealth tax and the state takes only part of the annual income of rich foreigners.
King Abdullah also brought in loosely defined laws against things such as national security, which were punished with heavy fines.
(Infringement actions are lawsuits brought at the European Court of Justice alleging violations of European Union law. Violations can be punished with heavy fines).
Dominga González Castellanos says of her picture of a grimacing boy tied to a post with a heavy rope, "Sebastian was punished for eight hours".
Twenty banks and financial firms in London have been told to disclose their dealings with Mossack Fonseca to the UK's Financial Conduct Authority by Friday next week in a first step that could potentially see wrongdoing punished with heavy fines.
Fifteen months earlier, Placente had driven through a red light and neglected to answer the summons, an offence that Corral was going to punish with a heavy dose of techno-Kafkaesque.
The Jets' quarterbacks have been sacked only four times this season (the play on which Testaverde was hurt last Sunday was not a sack), and Testaverde said last week that the Patriots might be punished for a heavy blitz by giving up quick scoring strikes.
PETA is pressing Obama to order the U.S. Department of Agriculture to confiscate elephants used in circuses that are "trained, disciplined and punished with bullhooks (heavy weapons resembling fireplace pokers with a sharp steel hook at the end) in violation of the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA)," the group said in a statement on Thursday.
Most crimes committed by well-to-do citizens were, under Roman law, punished in part by heavy fines and confiscations.
But that regulator, the Public Service Commission, needs more resources and the power to punish utility companies with heavy fines and even the loss of their franchises, the commission said.
