Sentence examples for onerous fines from inspiring English sources

Both candidates agree that the city should scale back onerous fines and fees on small businesses.

The League of Women Voters has suspended its voter registration efforts in Florida, with the group's leaders blaming what they said were the law's red tape and onerous fines.

While it is true that the mayor can threaten the transit union and its members with onerous fines, he has no seat at the bargaining table, nor does he have control of the money used to pay transit workers.

Because of the onerous fines imposed on customers who switch wireless carriers before their contracts have expired, operators can't expect large numbers of customers to switch immediately to their service, Guy notes.

That's because in order to appease Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the anti-amnesty crowd, the bill will not only impose onerous fines on them for breaking an anti-freedom, irrational law; it will also force them to stand in the back of the green-card-line that for many categories has a decades-long wait.

They reflected long-standing practices of racial oppression ― including the use of onerous fines, fees, and warrants by local municipal courts.

A landmark decision to let foreign supermarkets into a backward food industry still stands in theory, but fluid and onerous fine print means Walmart, Tesco and others are not investing yet.If deep reform is off the agenda, the government can still try the old approach of cranking the bureaucratic machine harder.

Four of the six biggest banks were more profitable last year — yes, even after all those supposedly onerous, gargantuan fines — than they were in 2007.

The changes came after residents of the town, which has a black majority and a mostly white government, complained about years of racial profiling and onerous traffic fines that affected mostly poor and African-American residents.

So the answer isn't to slap lower-income citizens with onerous court fines for failure to appear but to acknowledge that for many people, serving on a jury without receiving a decent rate of pay is a heavy, unreasonable burden to ask of them.

Conversations about Brown's death often dovetailed with broader assessments of aggressive policing, the onerous ticketing and fines that made many people afraid to leave their communities, and the bureaucracy that enabled these problems.