To impose a penalty on smoking in the street is a stretch of the law.

在街上吸烟罚款是对法律的滥用。

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Imagine bribing an Alzheimer's patient to keep her dementia from worsening, or threatening to impose a penalty on her if it did.

试想，你能否贿赂一个阿尔茨海默氏症患者让她减少痴呆，或者威胁她如果情况继续恶化就对她施以惩罚。

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Having heard the evidence they decided not to impose a penalty as they had sufficient doubt as to both the temperature of the fuel on board the car and to the true ambient temperature.

在研究了证据之后，他们决定不给予处罚，因为他们认为当时赛车上加载的燃油的温度和当时的真实气温还存在很多疑点。

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So if your business is anything like the vast majority of small businesses out there, this requirement simply won't apply to you -- because I don't think it's fair to impose a penalty on small businesses that are already operating at very narrow margins.

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They even want to impose a tax penalty on the parents of students who register to vote at their North Carolina college addresses, and pass the most restrictive felony disenfranchisement law in the country.

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Latest efforts to impose a harsher penalty on men who kill their daughters and sisters suffered a fresh setback in parliament this week, after deputies refused to sanction an amendment to the penal code.

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