The smallest penalty was £9,900 against the internal auditor of Bank of Beirut for lack of openness in dealing with the regulator.
Given a subsample k, we estimate for a given permutation of the response the smallest penalty required to zero out all predictors, i.e., where is the jth column of the subsampled and mean-centered design matrix, and denotes the inner product of its two arguments.
Such small penalties, Mr. Pate wrote in a summary of the case, "have done little to deter these types of threats".
While the state has stiff penalties for those who cut down trees illegally for timber harvesting, those who do so for development purposes face comparatively smaller penalties, according to the environmental department.
But opponents, including the Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who are already criticizing Mr. Obama for what they say is a low level of attention to China trade issues, might call the small penalties insufficient.
U.S. bankruptcy law allows companies operating under Chapter 11 protection to end contracts and pay relatively small penalties.
A fall usually results in a full mark being knocked off your score, with smaller penalties for other minor errors such as stepping a foot out of bounds during the floor routine.
The overall pattern of the two groups appeared to demonstrate that both were behaving according to the principle that large, infrequent penalties have less of an impact on long-term strategy than do frequent, small penalties.
The main feature of these frontiers was that the penalty that maximised long-term rates of genetic gain realised almost as much short-term genetic gain as OCS at smaller penalties.
These two explanations mean that, at small penalties, where emphasis was on genetic gain, OCS decreased the variation in breeding values faster over time than it decreased the variation in additive-genetic relationships.
