Sentence examples for stiff fine from inspiring English sources

Some disparity between the stiff fine and the profits.

Either transgression could bring a stiff fine and some jail time.

Environmental abuses such as excessive forestry and hunting are also punishable; fishing with dynamite carries a particularly stiff fine.

And they wanted to impose a stiff fine — possibly $20 billion — which would be used to modify mortgages.

Darryl Strawberry, who makes $1.8 million a year, said it was a "stiff" fine - all of $1,000.

Keepers of shops bemoan their losses, but any found open face a stiff fine and a license suspension.

Conviction can mean stiff fines or even prison.

Bringing on stiff fines, jail time and possible civil lawsuits.

The judge then imposed the stiff fines to coerce her.

Companies that do not adhere to these security guidelines could be subject to stiff fines.

The sanctions in that pact — like stiff fines — were never imposed.