Sentences with phrase «of wrist slaps»

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Who'd like to bet it'll the same old story once again — a slap on the wrist and they'll be back to «business as usual» in a couple of months?

You can avoid the slaps on the wrist if you had at least as much income tax withheld this year as last (unless you make more than $ 150,000, in which case you have to hold back at least 110 percent of the prior year's withholding).

«Instead of senior executives being forced out or even criminally sanctioned, the firm receives a fine that amounts to little more than a slap on the wrist.»

Even after the former U.S. attorney general Eric Holder, who'd been hired by the board to investigate, issued a scathing report on Uber's culture, Kalanick and his directors initially decided that vague promises of coaching, the hiring of a chief operating officer, and a slap - on - the - wrist «leave of absence» for the CEO were sufficient remedies.

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.

First, the viral video of police brutality during the student riots following the Terps beating Duke where the video provided evidence contradicting police accounts and resulted in (wrist - slap) suspensions of some the officers involved.

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

My point, who cares, your religion is not what I want deciding if we need jobs or a way to create them or how victims of crime who are uninsured get medical bills paid or using your religion to decide who deserves what time in prison and who gets a slap on teh wrist.

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.»

No, I won't say the name of the game because the NFL and S.B. are hardcore about no one using their logo / name and I'm not getting slapped on the wrist.

It's likely Meyer sticks to his words of not making an example out of Stoneburner or Mewhort and only slaps both of them on the wrist.

Not to mention the chuckle - wink aspect, the we're - all - cowpokes - ain «t - we attitude, of so many judges who mete out wrist - slap fines to game - law violators.

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

«But people thought they'd get a slap on the wrist and that would be the end of it.»

If he shows remorse for his actions and pleads that the injustice got the better of him and that he has learnt from his mistake, I'm sure that the FA will let him off with just a small fine and a slap on the wrist (warning)

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.

As we have seen, if the stick ai nt workin — no slap shots, wrists shots, backhands — there's always the skate shot (sans kicking motion of course)... now for tonight — the butt shot.

Everyone was in favor of a slap on the wrist — everyone except the defensive coordinator, Ol' Hangin» Judge Stallings.

A fine and a slap on the wrist will go down a lot easier than a full - on ban on the eve of the club's move to La Peineta.

Don't assume that any type of arrest or any type of allegation is just kid's play or a slap on a wrist.

He was of the view that «history will yet record also that when militants of the NPP violently stormed a court, freed suspects on trial and threatened the presiding judge with assault, they did not receive even a slap on their wrists, they were in fact set free».

In his keynote speech to the Liberal Democrat conference, the business secretary will announce plans for a tightening of the law to end the «slap on the wrist» approach to «dodgy directors».»

Cuomo budget spokesman Morris Peters said the state will also make sure traffic - court judges are made aware of accused speeders» driving histories in the hopes that repeat offenders receive more than just a slap on the wrist.

Bloomberg complained there are too many cases in which state arbitrators impose only a slap on the wrist to teachers found guilty of sexually inappropriate behavior toward students.

Gianaris feels, «Allowing a deep - pocketed investment bank to get away with just a slap on the wrist would be treated as the cost of doing business and would continue to permit the bank to reap the benefits of its illicit profits.

Not much chance of that, of course, as Harman - school - lmarm again - slaps Hague on the wrist for «talking down the economy».

Instead the leader of the House of Commons received a slap on the wrists in the form of a letter «making clear that failure to report on time is a serious matter».

A group of government reform groups received a slap on the wrist after sending a political letter to the government offices of state senators.

But those most outraged by the wrist slap are other members of the armed services who fear the damage to military discipline.

Critics of the winery called the penalty a «slap on the wrist.»

One woman said she was raped by a top Silver aide who pleaded guilty to a wrist - slap misdemeanor charge of sexual misconduct, after the powerful speaker ignored her cries.

«No family should ever go through the grief of losing a loved one and then watching his killer get a slap on the wrist,» State Sen. Jeff Klein, who sponsored the bill, said after it passed the Senate.

The Stanford University swimmer who got a wrist - slap jail sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman is now a textbook example of a «rapist.»

But the social and behavioral sciences do receive a slap on the wrists: None of the $ 99 million in additional research dollars can be allocated to that directorate.

Be careful when holding the pads that you don't slap down on the punch as it will increase the risk of injuring the wrist!

In light of the massive profits and the outrageous nature of the offenses committed by Canada Drugs, the sentence is nothing more than a «slap on the wrist.»

Ok, so I met up with a few of my favourite people yesterday (Sarah - Lou, Katy, Jeska, Mel and Emma I'm looking at you), and I got a slap on the wrist for not doing a bit more shouting about my YouTube channel, Heather's Space, and the videos I've been sharing over there recently.

And while We Happy Few may imitate the Bioshock series in some ways, they do differ in the gameplay department as permadeath is a foundation of the experience unlike in Bioshock where death was more of a temporary slap on the wrist by a nun who could not be bothered to put any real effort into her swing.

She was eventually caught and sentenced to only six months house arrest, a slap on the wrist in comparison to the scope of her crimes.

So, on September 5th, the black students organized a peaceful sit - in under the «white tree» in protest of the slap on the wrist doled out to the perpetrators.

«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.

He gets a proverbial slap on the wrist for a lifetime of advantage - taking.

When Voltage Pictures President Nicolas Chartier got a wrist - slap for openly appealing to Academy voters on behalf of his project The Hurt Locker (2010), he may have been «uninvited» to the Oscars, but he certainly proved himself to be the rare creative executive who really speaks his mind.

At the point of departure, we find Madea in front of Judge Mablean who lets the hell - raising granny off with a slap on the wrist and a stern warning for leading police on a high - speed freeway chase.

The interesting — and paradoxical — upshot here is that the greatest hope for the continuation of an active federal government in K — 12 schooling is highly able and highly responsible states: if states handle their ESEA waivers well, then there will be no need for ED to slap wrists and therefore no additional fuel for those claiming federal overreach.

This was my first lap piloting the freshly announced 2015 Subaru WRX STI «round Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, my frustration increasing exponentially with each turn as I balanced trying not to bully the poor guy with wondering how bad of a slap on the wrist I'd get from our hosts for blowing past him at this no - passing - allowed exhibition event.

Monks is appalled by Freeboot's violent histrionics and Manson - like affinity for the hidden messages buried within Lennon and McCartney lyrics, yet acknowledges that he hears echoes of his own feelings when Freeboot speaks about the disintegration of workers» rights, the escalating differential between the haves and the have - nots, and the slap - on - the - wrist «justice» doled out in cases of billion - dollar corporate malfeasance.

He's taken to a remote community led by a charismatic counter-cultural sociopath known as Freeboot who's obsessed with the supposed hidden messages buried within old Beatles lyrics and the disintegration of workers» rights, the escalating differential between the haves and the have - nots, and the slap - on - the - wrist «justice» doled out in cases of billion - dollar corporate malfeasance.

If you want to openly conspire to set prices in order to protect your market and limit competition at the expense of the consumer you will only be able to get away with doing so for two years, plus however long it takes the government to drag you into court, prove anything, and penalize you with a slap - on - the - wrist settlement in which you ultimately offer consumers a small price break they will almost certainly never take you up on for products they probably don't want to buy anyway.