Meanwhile, Neville Chamberlain's government was fining Britons for using the word in public.

As a result, the government fined the school HK$200,000.

In 1938, the government fined Rutter Brothers Dairy for having too much butterfat in its milk.

In 2004, the government fined Goldman Sachs $2 million for illegally and selectively promoting the stock of four Asian companies that were about to go public.

The new government, controlled by conservative missionaries, fined Lycurgus for selling liquor at his resort.

In 2006, the government of France fined 13 perfume brands and three vendors for price collusion between 1997 and 2000.

In November 2012, the federal government fined the three contractors $143,000 and charged them for unpaid wages, an amount totaling $356,000.

On 26 September 1892 the government fined the newspaper with $200.000 after considering one of its articles "subversive".

The government fined Genwal Resources, $1.34 million "for violations that directly contributed to the deaths of six miners last year," plus nearly $300,000 for other violations.

In the end, the Peruvian government fined the mine $500,000; the company says it has paid $18 million more.