Employers with extensive records of safety violations often paid insignificant fines and continued to ignore basic safety rules.
The chief executive of Shelter, Campbell Robb, said rogue landlords were getting "nothing more than a slap on the wrist with insignificant fines, meaning they can go back to business as usual".
But Massey's huge corporate machine and gaggle of attorneys were able to fend off the sanctions and convince the courts to levy insignificant fines even in the event that those very violations could lead to a tragic mine disaster -- so add the courts to those complicit in these senseless deaths.
Gorse was particularly prized in bread ovens because it burned quick and hot before disintegrating into an insignificant pile of fine ash.
While the fine is insignificant relative to Viacom's operating income, which was $1.2 billion last year, it is another setback to the giant media company just as CBS finds itself embroiled in a scandal over the news division's use of documents relating to President Bush's National Guard service; the network now concedes the documents cannot be authenticated.
Since Mr. Schiff already owes millions of dollars in taxes, the government says fining him would be insignificant and has asked that he be jailed instead and that two associates of his, Cindy Neun and Larry Cohen, each be fined $5,000 a day until they, too, comply with the injunction.
The addition of fine-grained zeolite has insignificant influence on the compressibility and hydraulic conductivity of both clayey soil/Ca-bentonite and sandy soil/Na-bentonite backfills.
(The fine was small but not insignificant, similar to what a parent might have to pay a babysitter for an hour).
Spatial mapping of zeta diversity for the Afromontane forest plot supported the claim on the insignificant effect of habitat heterogeneity on species turnover, by revealing the fine-grain structure and thus little noteworthy spatial patterns (Fig. 4).
Fine-grained cultural trends and well-meaning cultural initiatives often seem insignificant compared with the mysterious forces that can stealthily double or halve the violent-crime rate in the course of a decade or two.
