The Northern Ireland international enjoyed a fine European Championship and it would take a hefty fee for Albion to sell.

It came in at speeds that were tremendous, slammed into the ground, blew up, and exploded with the energy of roughly a 20 megaton nuclear bomb a very hefty bomb.

Naturally, such a high end, classy, top grade product comes with a hefty price tag as well. At JPY5 million, equivalent to approximately RMB250,000, it would be enough to buy a car.

On the micro side, too little public investment means poor infrastructure and high export costs. Brazil has none of neighboring Argentina s hefty export taxes, but its heavy transport costs have the same effect.

The fine is indeed much higher than those levied before. Hefty fines for currency trading violations are not new (HSBC, for example, was hit with a 1.9 billion fine in 2012) but a fine close to 10 billion is.

Experts believe the departure of the This Morning presenter, who is among Britain's most bankable stars, could cost the firm millions due to hefty investment in products ranging from cushions and candles to clothing and homewear, and the potential for further delays to its launch.

John s efforts to raise money to regain lost lands in France exceeded the usual taxes and levies that the nobles had accepted from his predecessors. The king seized the estates, and sometimes the person, of wealthy lords or merchants and demanded hefty payments for their release.

Market dominant banks still extract hefty fees on debit and credit card transactions from merchants, who are forced to pay a multiple of what a truly competitive market would bear. These are, quite simply, taxes, with the revenues enriching private coffers rather than serving public purposes.

The United States is not one of Europe s heavily indebted countries, which must pay hefty premiums over the price at which Germany can borrow. Interest rates on US government bonds have been falling and are near record lows, which means that financial markets anticipate deflation, not inflation.

Hefty fines imposed by US regulators for breaching the rules notably, the recent 8.9 billion settlement by BNP Paribas are already causing European banks to re think their compliance costs and the profitability of operating in the US. Meanwhile, American courts have forced Argentina into another national default.

Bank of America performed poorly on the US Federal Reserve s financial stress tests, and regulators criticized Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase s financing plans, leading both to lower their planned dividends and share buybacks. And Citibank s hefty buildup of its financial trading business raises doubts about whether it is controlling risk properly.

The West can also take some lessons from the various models Asian countries are experimenting with as they ramp up domestic innovation. In South Korea, LG recently launched a program to solicit invention ideas from the public, promising inventors a hefty 8 stake in the proceeds of any ideas the company commercializes.

Multi national advertisers who covet the huge Saudi market were informed in no uncertain terms that they would lose hefty contracts if they advertised on Al Jazeera. Nevertheless, the station, whose owners have deep pockets, expanded to add a direct satellite broadcast, a children s station, two sports stations, and soon an international, English language station.

The system is hardest on first generation graduates who lack a highly placed relative to help them into the workforce they are often left with no option but to pay a hefty bribe to advance their careers. Unsurprisingly, the way state jobs are filled, from the presidency down, has become a source of deep and widespread bitterness.

As for business leaders, despite the hefty fees they must pay to become members of the Davos Family, they, too, keep coming because for them the Forum ultimately represents a time and money saving investment. Where else in the world could they meet so many of their potential partners or customers, including heads of emerging states, in one place?

It is at least possible maybe even likely that Apple s best long term move would be to release a hefty portion of its unused cash to its shareholders, who would then plow it back into the economy. Meanwhile, it can finance its next new thing from the cash that its great products will continue to generate.

More than three years passed before new US Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady set out a more satisfactory program, in which banks would be given a menu of options that included lower interest rates on the debt and a hefty discount on the principal. If creditor banks were unwilling to accept some form of restructuring, they would have to put in new money.

The Italians and Spaniards are right the principal reason for the size of the spread between the periphery and Germany is convertibility risk. Investors are demanding a hefty premium to insure against the chance that Italy and Spain are ultimately forced out of the eurozone thus bringing that day closer by weakening countries fiscal positions and raising their private sector borrowing costs (which are set by government bond yields).

The EU promised to cut its CO2 emissions by 20 by 2020, at a cost that the Commission s own estimates put at about 0.5 of GDP, or roughly 60 billion per year. This is obviously a hefty price tag at least a 50 increase in the total cost of the EU and it will likely be much higher (the Commission has previously estimated the cost to be double its current estimate).