Sentence examples for severe fines for from inspiring English sources

But as a step in the right direction, stores that fail to sweep the sidewalks in front of them could be heavily penalized, with particularly severe fines for the big chains.

The new rule aimed to limit the total of time a property could be rented to just 75 days a year, imposing severe fines for those breaking the rules.

With the support of the state's employers, it imposed severe restrictions on the ability to protest, including banning protests within 50 metres of a college and giving the right to change the route of a protest at short notice, with severe fines for those protesters who did not co-operate.

In the spring of 2010, responding to many well-publicized accounts of planes being stranded on tarmacs for four, six and even 10 hours, the department issued a rule that carries severe fines for airlines that keep passengers on idled planes for more than three hours without a very good excuse.

The penalties for refusal were severe; fines were imposed for recusancy, and repeat offenders risked imprisonment and execution.

Stern has also handed out severe fines and suspensions for fighting, most notably to (then) Indian Pacers bad boy Ron Artest for a 2004 brawl in Detroit.

Banks and other financial institutions have not forgotten the severe fines introduced by the US for evading sanctions, and while the threat remains of renewed sanctions – likely to be present in an agreement under so-called 'snap back' provisions – major multinational companies will be reluctant to accept the risk of investing in Iran.

An angry FISA court could demand increasingly severe fines, identify more and more officers for jail time, and make it impossible for Facebook to operate within the United States by issuing more (and more invasive) warrants.

Spain, for example, logs the most data protection complaints and hands out the most severe fines in the EU.

Consumer Affairs Victoria told the federal court last week that the agency should face a severe fine.

Subjects all had at least mildly severe fine wrinkling and mottled hyperpigmentation.