Citations:level

English citations of level

to direct (something) at (someone)

• 1809, William Ross (Jr.), Abridgement of the laws of Scotland relating to hunting and fowling, dove-cots and pigeons, rivers, the sea-shores, and fishings, page 60:

  If the right of killing salmon belong exclusively to the King, and consequently to his donatories, why has not the Legislature secured the right by levelling penalties against such as should encroach upon it [...] ?

• 1953, Ballet Today:

  The U.S. unions are now levelling fines against members who [...]

• 1966, Margaret Whiting Spilhaus, South Africa in the making, 1652-1806:

  [...], and levelling fines upon men in whose dwellings the fiscal found split canes and knotted cords. The local Hottentots could threaten nothing very serious, [...]

• 1978, Parliamentary Debates of the New Zealand House of Representatives, page 4955:

  How can the Minister reconcile the first statement with the clause, when he is in fact levelling punishment at the woman and not at the errant father [...] ?

• 1981, Court Review:

  Soon after becoming established in the fort, McLeod and his men began meting out justice, levelling fines, and within 18 months had disbanded all the major whiskey-trading operations.

• 1994, Jan S. Aritonang, Mission Schools in Batakland (Indonesia): 1861 - 1940 (→ISBN), page 189:

  ... (3) making the conditions for entrance more difficult, for example the piety of the parent; (4) levelling fines on graduates who were not willing to be teachers in the service of the Batak mission; (5) not permitting "drop outs" to become teachers [...]

• 1995, The Parliamentary Debates (Hansard): [Great British] House of Lords official report:

  There is no purpose in levelling fines because they would be merely paid from the £1.8 billion which the BBC collects.

• 1999, Stephen Tchudi, Community in the American West (University of Nevada Press, →ISBN), page 123:

  It appears as though the law would clamp down on the members of a minority as long as there was potential for levelling fines, [...]

• 2005, Peter Ganea, Thomas Pattloch, Christopher Heath, Intellectual Property Law in China (Kluwer Law International, →ISBN), page 199:

  Applying for damages based on civil liability does not exclude the administration from issuing administrative orders and from levelling fines on infringers.

• 2011, Juan Antonio Fernandez, Liu Shengjun, China CEO: A Case Guide for Business Leaders in China (John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN), page 210:

  It seems clear that Carrefour felt that the government would not shut down the operation of so many new stores, but would more likely level fines against the company. It also seems clear that Carrefour would have factored the costs [in...]

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Portuguese citations of level

• 2013, Felipe Castilho, Ouro, Fogo e Megabytes, Gutenberg, →ISBN, page 80:

  O garoto de Rastelinho sabia que ninguém poderia trapacear em BoA. […] No primeiro embate, há cerca de seis meses atrás, Shadow fora o vencedor e ficara há^[sic] poucos levels de distância do líder.