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Fine
A monetary penalty for an act. For example, one may have to pay $100 if one is caught driving over the speed limit. Fines are imposed instead of or (especially for financial crimes) in addition to prison sentences.


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DATAROCK The Pretender **** A shock of stone cold brilliance, The Pretender is quite possibly the hot-footed Norwegian technocrats' finest hour - a blistering barrage of freefall guitar, drum thunder, brassy glory and a lyric that adds fizz to the fire.
It will be your finest hour, possibly your only fine hour.
Churchill used the phrase in a speech to Parliament on June 18, 1940 just before the Battle of Britain and predicted that if the British won the battle, even if the British Empire were to survive for another 1,000 years, "Men will still say 'this was their finest hour.
 
 
 
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