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Discover LudwigThe phrase "token fine" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to refer to a fine that is nominal or symbolic, often given to satisfy a requirement without being a significant penalty. Example: "The company received a token fine for the minor violation, which was more of a formality than a real punishment."
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Knight is a suspended for few games, and receives a token fine.
The Wachovia and HSBC banks were caught, and admitted – with impunity apart from a ticking-off and token fine– laundering hundreds of millions of dollars in drug profits.
It eventually won the case, but it was a Pyrrhic victory: the organisation responsible for publishing the booklet in Switzerland was ordered to pay only a token fine.
But the court said the snap was "neither degrading nor malicious", resulting in the token fine of €1, but also an accompanying order to pay Le Pen €3,000 in legal fees.
United Brands ended up pleading guilty to conspiracy and wire fraud, and though it got off with a token fine of fifteen thousand dollars, Congress later cited the case when it passed the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, in 1977.
If a landlord is found and taken to court, Mr. Kretchmer said, he is often given only a token fine of $5 —and that after long delays because of court backlogs.
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And the law includes only weak fines for mandate violators — token fines the Internal Revenue Service is at this point forbidden to enforce.
Most were let off after explaining their absence, but 52,000 people were made to pay a token $20 fine and around 30 were prosecuted and convicted.
In 1967, Vermont adopted a law requiring people to render reasonable assistance to someone who is in grave danger, but the penalty for noncompliance is only a token civil fine.
You don't have to spend big bucks on gifts––small tokens are fine.
For instance, the IOBESf model can correctly recognize the boundary of the chemical entity "α-phenyl-N-tert-butyl nitrone" using ten tokens after fine-grained tokenization.
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