Sentences with phrase «slap on the wrist»

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

This is a step in the right direction and would put down a marker to formula companies that failure to comply is not going to be a mere slap on the wrists.

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

Now there's an educated slap on the wrist.

Now, this amount is but a drop in the bucket and a baby slap on the wrist for this particular credit bureau but that discussion is for another day!

And if that doesn't work, they'll probably just give you a public slap on the wrist.

Had I pursued it, there would have been an ethics hearing, and the salesperson would have received a quiet slap on the wrist.

My LG G Watch arrived on July seventh and got slapped on my wrist just moments later.

The New York Times: Facebook Gets Slap on the Wrist From 2 European Privacy Regulators European nations feel that Facebook's terms of service go too far in tracking users» behavior

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.

The FTC's enforcement measures, which are relegated to fines and consent orders, have largely been dismissed as slaps on the wrist for the multibillion - dollar tech companies.

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

You're slapped on the wrist if you stop trying out new gear.

And yet where are the reviewers who will regularly and forcefully call them out on all their shiny iterative bullshit, who will do more than give an occasional slap on the wrist in the form of a 7 or 8, who will crucify the worst offenders, like BioShock Infinite?

At least that is how they advertise it, and they don't get slapped on the wrist when a buyer buys the deal and loses money.

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.

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.

At the BBC, failure has given rise to little more than a self - administered slap on the wrist.

Dying in Super Mario Odyssey is also a simple slap on the wrist.

A big slap on our wrists.

As my own state of Wisconsin examines the possibility of becoming the third state in the union to legalize recreational marijuana without overturning the sentences of cannabis related offenders, Ear Hustle is a stark reminder that the American justice system is far from perfect, by looking at the lives of men who must find a way to hold onto hope and life while serving time considering questions around who is imprisoned and who is simply slapped on the 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.»

I suppose I also fancy myself as someone who lives + experiences mindfully and resolutions feel, to me, like a a hindsight - induced slap on my wrist for catching myself operating mindlessly on things I mean to mind fully.

These folks work for UF now and I want the program to be fun and successful, but I also find essentially allowing that behavior — with nothing more than the very slightest slap on the wrist — pretty reprehensible.

Sure, there are a few spluttered words of condemnation or a gentle slap on the wrist but the scrutiny British, particularly English, players find themselves under when they decide to cheat is essentially the press rubbing their bellies and telling them what a cheeky chappie they are.

The difference between white and black teens isn't simply anymore that pot smoking white teens get sent to rehab and black teens go to jail, no, nowadays it's that white teens can kill 4 people and still get probation slap on the wrist (Ethan Couch, affluenza) and black teens GET KILLED, Travon Martin.

«I pray the court tempers justice with mercy and impose a very heavy slap on the wrist,» Akoni pleaded.

«I've seen sexual harassers get slaps on the wrist before.

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.

In the opening scene, an upper - middle - class family drives to their house in the country, heavy metal music sarcastically blasting on the soundtrack (not the family's car stereo, which plays bourgeois - appropriate classical), and even before the whore has gotten a chance to flash her jewels, Haneke is already slapping her on the wrist.

Bungie got out and was then slapped on wrist at E3, told by the man they can not show their new project to anyone.

Cheaters were often slapped on the wrists multiple times until the admins got fed up and issued a permaban.

He has suffered significant damage to his career and life already... Would not a plea bargain be more likely — with an agreed slap on the wrist, and some community service... gasp: probably offering to lecture for free on the dangers of AGW...

On the contrary, they may see large organisations with very deep pockets, like Rolls - Royce, buying their way out of trouble, walking away from court with a great big financial slap on the wrists, while no past or present Rolls - Royce employee or director goes to prison for offences running into tens or possibly hundreds of millions of pounds.

Mr. Michels authors an article, «Patient Safety vs. Corporate Profits: MICRA - A Slap on the Wrist; A Slap in the Face,» published by the Advocate magazine discussing MICRA, a $ 250,000 imposed cap on general damages in medical malpractice.

If the Gear S did not have the curve then this would be too big for your arm, looking more like a mini phone slapped on your wrist.

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

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».

So what if he's been slapped on the wrists by the «ok ya» brigade!

She adds that advisers «are not parents — we're not going to slap you on wrist when you want to spend.»

Indeed, that growth - at - all - costs directive has cost many startups, with companies like Sprig shutting down and many companies getting slapped on the wrist for aggressive growth tactics like text spamming.

I received a little slap on the wrist!

Of course, with the turbocharged straight six, it's always tempting to be far less delicate, hence the rear - end twitching and the stability - control - administered slaps on the wrist.

He tried to poison his tutor and got off with only a proverbial slap on the wrist.

No longer will acts of animal cruelty be met with a simple slap on the wrist or a paltry fine.

There's no slap on the wrist here.