Sentence examples for weighty fines from inspiring English sources

Earlier this year Santa Cruz began enforcing rationing for every home and a ban on filling hot tubs and jacuzzis, with weighty fines and "Water School" for transgressors.

Nearly 350 people retweeted Uhlich's image, one of them writing: "At least they didn't change the title to 'As I, James Franco, Lay Dying.' " On the New York Daily News's Page Views blog, Margaret Eby said the sight of "Franco's smug dilettante face shining upward from a book as fine and weighty as 'As I Lay Dying' feels initially like an act of desecration".

Thus, even though Mr. Clinton made conceptual breakthroughs at Camp David, there was not enough time left to delve into the finer details of the weighty issues of religion and national identity.

While there is a first sight of Jack Wilshere, Daniel Sturridge and Raheem Sterling, who is the youngest man on the list, Steven Gerrard's position as the 80th best payer in the world is, it seems safe to say, an example of the distorting effects of a weighty reputation and tribute to Liverpool's fine form in the spring.

Early in the piece one can't help but feel for veteran actor Ron Donachie, menacingly gruff as retired veteran cop Black Fergus McLintock, as he described a malevolent and now-imprisoned quadruple killer via a weighty slab of simile which must have looked fine on the page but which hangs ever-heavier when spoken.

Then, last week, Dr. Yoni Freedhoff reported on his Weighty Matters blog that a Canadian mother was fined $10 under Manitoba's Early Learning and Child Care lunch regulations for failing to include a grain product in her child's home-packed lunch of "leftover homemade roast beef and potatoes, carrots, an orange and some milk".

Post always claimed that she was more interested in weighty questions of morality than she was in the finer points of table manners.

The same system that not long ago gave us Heat and LA Confidential has turned to wheeling out substandard fare such as Street Kings, Brooklyn's Finest and We Own the Night – films that have turned the police procedural into a drowsy rendition of worn conventions as opposed to the weighty, character-driven dramas that mark the genre's finest hours.

Fine words, that would be all the more weighty if we were to see a more socially conscious Azalea in action – both in her music, and her public life.

That great Elgarian Andrew Davis, conducting his old band, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, together with the BBC Symphony Chorus and BBC National Chorus of Wales and fine if evidently hot soloists, could hardly be a better advocate for this weighty oratorio.

A sizable slab of hanger steak with sautéed onion, peppers and mushrooms was fine on its own ($22) or as part of parrillada ($29), a platter weighty with steaks (Angus strip, hanger, skirt) and sausage.