| 词汇 | example_english_non-payment |
| 释义 | Examples of non-paymentThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Second, there is an element of coercion, as represented by the enforcement activities of rate collectors and the penalties imposed on those detected for non-payment. However, a major problem is inadequate collection of revenues, mainly due to widespread non-payment. With a financial system based on municipal rents, the possibility of decent maintenance and upkeep was defeated by the massive scale of non-payment. The financial well-being of the water sector in many countries has been undermined by the non-payment of water bills by government agencies. However, the company's financial position was overshadowed by low prices and non-payment by government agencies. Moreover, the attitude of local political leaders with respect to payment seems to be important, for instance by legitimising non-payment through their own behaviour. Her relationship with the label ended in a bitter legal dispute over non-payment of royalties. Yet non-payment of rents and boycott were soon to evolve into agrarian crime and land war. Informal reconnections are practised in many townships when water and/or electricity are cut off by the municipality due to massive non-payment. A high incidence of non-payment may thus encourage nonpayment even by those who can afford to pay. The authorities then examined how instances of non-payment had increased or decreased, and whether the payments were done in good coins or bad. Instead of watching their livelihood haemorrhage away, royalists sued their old tenants for non-payment of rent. In some communities non-payment even worsened after the launching of the campaign. To the contrary, non-payment seems to be the ' norm ' in some areas. The claim that charges are too high may, of course, for some be part of a rationale for non-payment. According to the husband's lawyer, non-payment of maintenance only served here as a pretext for the wife to get rid of her husband. The problems of non-payment should therefore be attacked on several fronts, including service delivery, better administration and payment schemes, and community involvement. Also, some citizen surveys have been carried out to identify the determinants behind the sustained high levels of non-payment of service charges. While entitlement culture certainly plays a role in understanding the non-payment crisis, the explanatory power of this factor is more dubious. Many also had experiences of institutional living - two-thirds had been in prison, often for relatively minor offences like the non-payment of fines - and one-fifth had received psychiatric care. Bankruptcy of the state and non-payment of salaries explain in part why public servants holding the slightest bit of authority fatten themselves on the other man's back. The non-payment of the bride price directly to the bride herself did constitute a sufficient motive for taking legal action for the annulment of the marriage. Now, it is true that non-payment of taxes is, by law, a punishable offence and so it might be concluded that payment of taxes is secured by means of coercion. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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