Imposing billions of dollars of fines on the most conspicuous wealth creators is not the way to go.

Fines

Last August, Singapore began imposing fines of up to 2 million on local and foreign companies that contribute to the haze from fires.

An imposing man.

The Greek authorities have tightened control over free camping and are already imposing serious fines on anyone who is caught resting in a place not intended for the purpose.

By trying to coerce them with fines?

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This figure includes not only fines and compensation.

2) and institution of a systems of fines

Even when firms pay mega fines, their CEOs remain.

I've paid parking fines a number of times myself.

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After the introduction of fines, everything calmed down within a year.

Izmailov will have to pay around 10,000 U.S. dollars in fines.

Previously, similar charges had mostly resulted in fines or suspended sentences.

This does not mean imposing rigid inflation targets.

The fines for inappropriate conduct by tourists in Venice have been stiffened

Instead, it forces companies to police hate speech or face astronomical fines.

Imposing controls also spawns uncertainty about a country s policies.

The West is imposing their norm of same sex families.

Russia is starting to issue fines for violations in the field of shared construction

There are big fines for talking on a hand held mobile phone while driving.

Others have been imposing capital controls of one stripe or another.

But re imposing capital controls is simply not a fruitful option.

Imposing them from the outside is simply not an effective option.

The difference is that administrative offenses are punished with fines, at most, not prison terms.

The most important question, however, is whether fines on this scale serve as useful deterrents.

Punishments envisaged in the bill range from fines ( 15 580 USD) to six months imprisonment.

Of course, imposing a no fly zone would not be a panacea.

It's coming from the economists imposing their mechanistic thinking on the science.

Moreover, countries imposing sanctions must be prepared to address their own vulnerabilities.

Pension funds would also be hit, imposing further costs on the PBGC.

As is so often the case in China, the figures are imposing.

Inspections are becoming more prevalent and a business faces fines of up to 1 million roubles.

Nevertheless, the most important thing in Singapore isn t the fines, but voluntary compliance with the laws.

To be fair, the Fund s reputation for imposing austerity is mostly an illusion.

Venice s authorities have stiffened the fines for swimming in the canals from 50 euros to 500 euros.

But the 36 instances of imposed fines represent less than a fourth of all the archived reports.

Peddling beer is illegal and can carry fines of 150 euros (about 167 US dollars) or more.

Officials from Rospotrebnadzor (Russia's consumer rights and human welfare agency) recently raided Cafe Flamingo, imposing fines (reportedly in the amount of roughly 3 million rubles, or 45,000) for a series of code violations, including the absence of certain fire precautions and the lack of an entrance ramp accessible to the disabled.

Policymakers should be wary of imposing a regulatory shock simultaneously with a fiscal shock.

She paints them from below at a heroic angle to make them more imposing.

Meanwhile, the country s largest independent media group has been brought to heel by huge, politically motivated tax fines.

The nefarious practices and management failings uncovered during the yearlong investigation that led to the fines were shocking.

The reputational impact of each new settlement is modest, despite the escalation in the level of fines imposed.