Sentences with phrase «given slaps on the wrist»

The eagle - eyed clerk in the table office called us and gave me slap on the wrist.

The Met's deputy assistant commissioner was given a slap on the wrists by Keith Vaz today after being summoned to explain its actions against the Guardian.

A luxury hotel magnate and Clinton family friend avoided jail time Thursday as a Brooklyn federal judge gave him a slap on the wrist for illegally raising campaign cash for...

SANFORD did something illegal and he is still in office and the SC congress gave him a slap on the wrist and enabled him to stay in office.

After promising not to do it again, they were given a slap on the wrist by an «arbitrator» and returned to their classes.

Take them away have them killed while the owner is given a slap on the wrist and will find other dogs to exploit within a month if not less.

I have seen cases where alienating parents are given slaps on the wrist or «asked» to not engage in a behavior and their failure to follow the rules is met with little or no consequences.

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District Judge G. Todd Baugh of Montana is catching a lot of heat for the slap on the wrist he's giving to Stacey Rambold, a 54 - year - old teacher who raped a 14 - year - old girl who later committed suicide.

God gives «slaps on the wrist» over and over, sometimes to the point of embarrassment.

Last month she gave only a soft slap on the wrist to Trump's reckless act: but with her international reputation in the balance, she must publicly show that on climate change she has far more in common with the rest of the world than with Donald Trump and join other leaders in defending and advancing the Paris Agreement.»

He's been giving up pay for 7 years now and still only getting the smallest of slaps on the wrist.

Hardworking players like mertasacker and giroud are more often than not bear the brunt of the criticism while the English core are given just a mere slap on the wrist with the usual adage about «young and having time on their side to improve».

Because if any part of this case is successful, and the NCAA merely gives UNC a slap on the wrist, the NCAA could have much bigger problems than UNC down the road.

The spineless football authorities will perhaps give him a token fine and a slap on the wrist, since they too are complicit in keeping the game from becoming honest and ethical.

Not sure anyone will be wanting to sign him next year for other than a few million, He has had one good game so far this season and seeing we have had a great start that does not sit well, Last week playing Tomks and Reid in the middle was not good and so far Tomks has played better at right back because he concentrated more and don't give me that not so good attacking view we don't need that with the midfield and forwards we have and I would prefer Kouyate going forward and not having to worry about covering Jenks back, Time for Oxford to have a game along side Reid I think or Ginge, Maybe Jenks and Noble need to watch from the bench for a week and get a reality check, No I ain't saying get rid just a slap on the wrist to wake them up

As though it's an inconvenience to have to give them a little slap on the wrists, when their time could be better spent putting murderers and drug lords away.

They give midwives who don't recognize a baby is in danger (look at Aquila, who died because her mom had a placental abruption) a slap on the wrist... a six month suspension, or less.

Sometimes, it feels like the writers are slapping us on the wrist for hanging onto these anti-homosexual laws for so long, but for the most part, it works given the topical context.

«You corroborate and prove and substantiate a fraud of this caliber that spanned for decades, and then essentially give the country that committed that fraud a slap on the wrist, allow 160 of their athletes to compete in those games, two of them found doping, and then immediately after the games are over — without that country ever accepting responsibility, apologizing for any of their actions or accepting that any of this was truth while they continue to hunt Dr. Rodchenkov — you lift the ban on that country.

However, when it comes to discipline, we give students the cane and schools a slap on the wrist.

The Commonwealth of Virginia gave them a $ 500 fine for breaking the law, a slap on the wrist considering it is a fraction of the $ 52 million PETA took in that year from unsuspecting donors.

This report comes on the heels of accusations from local groups that a Kentucky mining company has violated the Clean Water Act nearly 28,000 times, likely the largest non-compliance of the law in its 42 - year history, while state regulators continue to give only slaps on the wrists.

If this Panel were a political stunt then its purpose would be to take the sting out of Steve and Ross's work, give mild censure about not archiving and a slap on the wrist to Mann about his behavior.

The Financial Services Agency (FSA) originally gave the exchange essentially a slap on the wrist, but due to the seriousness

The Financial Services Agency (FSA) originally gave the exchange essentially a slap on the wrist, but due to the seriousness of the situation, FSA regulators raided the offices of Coincheck today.

The PBOC went to the exchanges, gave all of them a slap on the wrist, and asked for apologies.»

But YouTube barely gives its biggest creators a slap on the wrist when they majorly screw up.

My first instinct was to write him immediately and give him the proverbial slap on the wrist for making so many obvious mistakes.

(If so, give yourself a light slap on the wrist, and go back and pick two complimentary fonts.