Sentence examples for stiff fee from inspiring English sources

That is a stiff fee when state salaries average about $20 per month, although there are an array of subsidized goods and services.

— London, Singapore, Stockholm and a few other cities around the world battle heavy traffic with a "congestion charge," a stiff fee for driving in crowded areas at peak hours.

Candidates must have no criminal record, be a citizen of France or another country of the European Union, pay a stiff fee, submit to a "morality investigation" and put down a 25percentt cash deposit on the licensed tobacco shop they are taking over.

If you want to get your money out, you'll pay a stiff fee, often in the double digits.

Before it came around, wireless carriers had to pay bigger carriers like Verizon a stiff fee to connect traffic via their switches.

If you're lucky the neighbors will call the police, but be aware that police departments often charge a stiff fee for responding to false alarms.

The previous center-right government had imposed stiff fees only on cars considered high-emission vehicles.

Regulators continue to set stiff fees on calls between fixed lines and mobiles, which hurts Telmex less than its rivals.

The commission had many recommendations: bar the Japanese; set country quotas; enact literacy tests; impose stiff fees to keep out the poor.

But even reducing traffic a little, as London has done by charging drivers stiff fees to enter the central city, makes for a healthier, safer city.

The Los Angeles musicians' union asks for fairly stiff fees, and filmmakers often go outside the city to make recordings, if they use live music at all.