As punishment, according to the bill individuals held responsible for acid throwing face harsh fines and life in prison.

Morgan is neither a testosterone-addled, myopic car nut nor a New Age Luddite burning to put us all back on bicycles, with harsh fines for excessive bell-ringing.

That law, used primarily against organized-crime figures, drug traffickers and Wall Street criminals, provides for harsher fines, prison sentences and forfeiture of earnings.

And citizens who concealed, aided, or rescued fugitives were subject to harsh fines and imprisonment.

President Bush sought harsh fines for future plunderers.

Conviction for a criminal offence will attract a criminal record and can be punishable by jail time and harsh fines.

But getting caught entailed harsher fines and penalties.

On council, he was an organizer for the downtown cleanup campaign "Operation Montreal" and supported the imposition of harsh fines against littering and graffiti in Montreal's downtown core.

The report noted that in Hong Kong, for example, harsh fines and aggressive enforcement by government agencies seemed to have brought about a decrease in the number of aliens working illegally.

In their eyes, the deaths of the named conspirators and their closest relatives and the harsh fines had expunged the family's guilt.