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I don't accept for any officer to even slap a prisoner.

Bayan Jabor

[The Economist wrote,] Then there is Lewis and Clark, always a trump card in Montana. ... 'almost a slap in the face' for this year's bicentennial celebration.

Bob Clark

January was mild and snow free and this is a slap back to reality.

Dave Robinson

Getting picked to finish fourth or fifth in the ACC was like a slap in the face to us. That was based solely on teams having more talent than us, but that doesn't mean they're better than us. You can't look at what people had in the preseason anymore, though -- you have to evaluate teams on what they're doing right now.

Daniel Ewing

It was a slap in the face. That just showed if we're not prepared to play, we can be beat. We used that as a motivation game. It was a good, humbling experience for us. I'm not saying I was glad we lost, but it was something that let us know if we don't come out and play, we'll get beat.

James Shuler

A slap in the face to the County Commission and to all the people that you misinformed. ... Whoever decided on that was absolutely out of line.

Burt Aaronson

It is rather a slap in the face.

Maurice Flanagan

He's a great skater, and he has a really good shot from just about anywhere on the floor. Slap-shots, wrist-shots, any kind of shot: he can take them all.

Franklin Dodson

I think it's a great move for Motorola. GIC is the leading maker of cable set top boxes. Slap on the Motorola brand name and distribution and it's a real good move for Motorola.

David Toung

Relapse is part of the disease of addiction. It's something that's going to literally slap them in the face when they walk out the doors.

Nicole Lockhart

We've had trouble sealing the deal this season. We let our chance get away. They scored two with one hit in the first inning, and that was a (slap). We've had a lot of games like today's.

Dan Bollinger

This is pretty much everything that the plaintiff had been looking for. This points to a strong remedy and not a slap on the wrist, though there are other strong remedies besides breakup.

Carl Shapiro

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Thomas J. Watson

The revised schedule for hearings and the change in format amount to a slap in the face to individual veterans as well as the groups that represent them in the public policy arena. Chairman Buyer has slammed the door in the face of America's veterans.

Paul Jackson

I decided to take one and slap at it to draw them in. Then I swung on the next pitch.

Ashley Wilson

I talk to you today about the blessed London battle, which came as a slap to the face of the tyrannical, crusader British arrogance. It's a sip from the glass that the Muslims have been drinking from.

Ayman Al zawahri

It's not only a slap in the face to the governor and the legislature, but it's a case of the NLDC breaking their word.

Scott Bullock

I am completely not surprised. He played his age card the last time, and everybody felt sorry for him. He got away with a slap on the wrist.

Shelley Rohl

Pierre's too dangerous. He'll slap down a bunt with the bases loaded. I wanted Lowell.

Doug Davis

I find it hard to understand how a lateral slap makes your head go backward.

Walter Lambert

In high school, they relied a lot on the bunt and the slap and could beat it out consistently. In our game, people can defend that. She's had to really work on that third dimension, and that's hitting away, and she's done a great job with that this year.

Melinda Fischer

She has a great fastball (62 mph), but she has developed a couple of other pitches to where she throws a curve, drop and rise. She has made the move offensively to a left-handed slap hitter and now a left-handed hitter who can hit it over your head.

Joe Alsup

I mean the word is out right now to juveniles [that] you can no longer get away with what you used to be able to get away with ... you're no longer going to get a slap on the wrist.

Andy Kahan

I can't imagine why they'd push this forward without having those answers. It's a slap in the face.

John Larkin

Nick Kristof has waged an almost single-handed campaign against the atrocities. If I was Nick Kristof, I would say this is a slap in the face.

Iain Levine

It's a slap in the face to the sponsors.

Michael Campbell

Unbelievable was absolutely my first reaction and my second thought was to my son Christopher, that was a slap in the face.

Christopher Brown

A slap and a tickle Is all that the fickle Male Ever has in his head.

Cole Porter

I just hope that he learned a valuable lesson on this. I don't just want him to get a slap on the wrist. I hope he learns from his mistakes.

Lajoy Young

You just get used to it over time is all I can say. It used to be like a slap in the face. Now I can talk about it.

Heather Webb

It's a slap in the face. These men weren't respected when they were buried, and it's like they're not being respected now.

Ken Chan

This man questioned a maneuver commander in the field. It is a slap in the face to all of us. He should know the uproar is just-caused.

Thomas Johnson

Sometimes those fears creep into the back of your head, but then you slap yourself and think, 'Oh, woe is me! People actually like me.' What a silly thing to worry about. This is a huge opportunity, and I'm excited.

Ben Mckenzie

I personally like to use the slap shot a lot, so for me, the stiffer the better.

Jon Hart

That's a disgrace that they couldn't even get his name right. It's a slap in the face.

Michael Mcdermott

You really don't like that, ... because it really kind of dawns on you that it's sort of a slap in the face because you don't have the prime-tine slot.

Kareem Mckenzie

They gave us the letter, they gave us the go-ahead. And now this … It's a slap in the face.

Suzanne White

But don't just slap $10,000 of miscellaneous expenses on your return. You need to explain that you work for company XYZ and do not get reimbursed for XYZ expenses.

Jackie Perlman

I did not expect her to be here because she would be seeing the poverty of her people and that would be a slap on the face if you were the President.

Randy David

CURSE, v.t. Energetically to belabor with a verbal slap-stick. This is an operation which in literature, particularly in the drama, is commonly fatal to the victim. Nevertheless, the liability to a cursing is a risk that cuts but a small figure in fixing the rates of life insurance.

Ambrose Bierce

When I first got into acting, I had been doing it for about a year and got really excited and felt like I could take on the world, and I moved to L.A. and kind of got a slap in the face and a piece of the real world.

Joel Riet

She was warned, and she should have followed what was told to her. . . . She shouldn't just get a slap on the hand.

Amy Carpenter

It's just this big article right there on the front page of sports section, it was just kind of a slap in the face.

Linda Sayavongchanh

He still has the motivation to do what he's doing. Our success this year was a slap in the face to all the people who doubted him and our program.

Brennan Coakley

It seems like another slap in the face. Mother Nature has not been kind to our growers.

Ann Holt

I think that I have the best situation of any liaison officer because I have all type of children, not more than one. I'm at about 53 to 47 [percent] in majority/minority. What I find is that our kids fight with each other, but nobody else fights with them. It's like, 'I can slap my brother, but you can't;' it's that type of situation.

Larry Frazier

I don't think I'll have to kill her. Just slap that pretty face into hamburger meat, that's all.

Sterling Hayden

From our point of view, and I think from a lot of Americans' point of view, it's a slap in the face. It's meant to appeal to those who agree with it and they look at it and they chuckle, and everyone else it's meant to be offensive to.

Michael Burke

When Colleen first heard about it she was just devastated because it was so hurtful. She also felt it was such a slap in the face to aboriginal people. It was also very hurtful to her family - her children and grandchildren.

Marisa Etmanski

This group of seniors, we've been fielding questions all week about how are we emotionally going to get up for the game when it doesn't really mean anything. We found that to be a slap in the face. We didn't want to be a senior class that contributed to a national championship and lost our last two games.

Craig Krenzel

It would have been a slap in the face and a setback for our gasping cinema and for the Biennale organizers. An honorable course was taken.

Natalia Aspesi

The European Union door is shut and the Iranians have thrown away the key. This was a symbolic slap in the face for the Europeans.

Ali Ansari

We had good breakouts coming with speed and good entry. Once we're set up we have great puck-movers. It doesn't have to be a big slap shot all the time because we're there for rebounds.

Nicklas Lidstrom

He's got wheels. He's one of the fastest kids I've ever coached. He has great puck-handling skills. He's a horse; you don't ever see kids like him. He has a tremendous slap shot.

Brandon Powell

I certainly understand people who have not been able to come back here, who have lost so much, who feel that is a slap in the face to them. At the same time, other people who have lost everything see this as a way of regaining their city and regaining their culture.

Karen T. Leathem

This is another black eye, another slap in the face of the black community.

Adora Obi Nweze

She is a girl so I wouldn't slap her. I would lock her in a room full of spiders and let her think about what she's doing to the youth of America.

Brandon Boyd

I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.

Matthew Lawrence

Last year I didn't think we were getting in, and obviously we didn't. I also didn't think Northern Iowa was getting in, and they did. So that was kind of a slap in the face, almost. We finished ahead in the conference and they still got in ahead of us. We didn't really understand that very much.

Matt Braeuer

We submit that a six-year prison term cannot be called a slap on the wrist.

Lee Blalack

The one thing about fashion is everyone wants that one moment when they look fabuloous and they feel fabulous, you know-when they step out of that limosine, when they make that entrance, when they slap that mans face...when everything is perfect-its about going for that one moment and we are all relentlessly trying to get it.

Veronica Webb

It's a slap in the face of every employee. We've always had quality since 1925.

Chris Kimmons

We are extremely pleased to see judges hand down some strict sentences and to see prosecutors actively pursuing these cases. This sends a message that Kentucky is aggressively pursuing cases of insurance fraud, and those who are caught won't get a slap on the wrist. They will pay for the crime.

Glenn Jennings

An apology to Jason Smith and his family in court does very little to remove the bodily harm and injury that (Elvena) has done to him. A slap on the hand is no punishment for a broken nose.

Karen Smith

He made a comment that said the flowers in Terri's room were being treated better than she is. That was a slap in the face to the people who work in that hospice. He ought to be ashamed of himself.

Brian Schiavo

The blessed London raid was a slap in the face of the arrogant, crusader British rulers.

Ayman Al zawahri

I was going to slap the (expletive) out of him.

Kwame Brown

It's a slap on the wrist. For such a basic human right as privacy, the public should know the penalty for abuses.

Ronny Tong

We can't afford to get rattled and let their quickness affect us. They like to slap at the ball and use their hands a lot on defense, so we've got to take care of and put an emphasis on having ownership of the basketball.

Wake Wood

Anything that could go wrong went wrong after the first two months. You don't expect some of the things to slap you in the face that did this year.

Patrick Dempsey

It's a slap in the face to the family and the victims. This bill does not go where it needs to go. While the language is good, the penalties are not adequate.

Larry Just

It's something we've expected for a very long time. Today's decision is a slap in the face of the public, which almost unanimously spoke in opposition to the development.

Ryan Demmy Bidwell

I do think they have to have more than a slap on the wrist.

Sheriff Wayne Gay

We really want to do what a number of provinces have looked at, to make the provisions of the Criminal Code that deal with conditional sentences more than a slap on the wrist. They need to be real sentences where people live up to the terms of those orders.

Michael Baker

This is another slap in the face.

Rex Tilousi

Almost all of the city employees received a 1.5 percent increase this year, and to give any more to the appointees would be a slap in the face to the 6,000 employees.

Deborah Powell

It's more than a slap in the face. It's shoving you in the mud and spitting on you. It's not just a betrayal of us, and of the Vietnamese people, but of American principles.

Bill Laurie

He was my idol when I was growing up. His uncle used to hang out in my dad's blacksmith shop. That's how I emulated him, with my slap shot. I played against him when I came up here, then he played with me, then he coached me for a while. I'll always remember that.

Rod Gilbert

The Forest Service access decision is a slap in the face to the public, who trusts its government to make decisions objectively and transparently.

Ryan Demmy Bidwell

I've got petitions signed, and I intend to pursue this to the bitter end. We've got a lot of good officers, but these officers are wrong...and they need more than a slap on the wrist.

Georgia Groves

For most Porsche shareholders, it's a slap in the face.

Arndt Ellinghorst

Companies say, 'We need a million square feet of space,' then go to their laptops and slap aluminum and glass over the million square feet.

Bob Hoekstra

They've got other kids, too, that can slap this ball around in the back of your own net, too. So we're definitely going to have to be on our toes defensively.

Eric Curtis

If some sissy chick tried to kick my ass I would say hey, missy, go knit me a sweater before I slap you in the face!

Eric Cartman

Joss is doing a little movie called Wonder Woman. I'd slap on the Dukes for that!

Eliza Dushku

This is a slap in the face to anyone who holds Sept. 11 to be a sacred day. I'm not saying the families oppose culture, or that controversial art can't be displayed. But why do it on that day? Where's the common sense?

Edie Lutnick

It's one more slap at Ray Hunt.

Ed Oakley