Sentences with phrase «slap on the wrist for»

It's time these hypocritical jerks got more than a slap on the wrist for all their hate mongering against minorities when they are secretly taking part in the very behavior that they decry.

The first was a military judge's decision to let off U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl with a slap on the wrist for desertion in Afghanistan in 2009.

State Island DA Dan Donovan was prosecuting this case and all he could get was a slap on the wrist for a repeat offender who was photographed during the assault?

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...

This Democrat crook was allowed to walk away with a slap on the wrist for stuff that the average Joe would have served hard time for committing.

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.

The black person dies and the cop is either only forced to resign or barely receives a slap on the wrist for their murder.

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.

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

Not only are regulations increasing, but gone are the days when corporations could expect a slap on the wrist for not meeting compliance.

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!

Do you slap yourself on the wrist for having failed to purchase a zero - dividend zero - distribution investment that would continue to accrue, on paper, capital gains for the rest of your natural life?

Vick's «sentence» is a slap on the wrist for the daily torture he and his cohorts inflicted on these innocent animals.

So they're just a slap on the wrist for the collection agencies, which see this as just a cost of doing business.

A speeding citation can range from a slap on the wrist for going five over the posted limit to a serious infraction for excessive speed or street racing, for example.

While both the Pro and Plus models look solid, there are a few things Samsung should get a slap on the wrist for: no 8 GB RAM option, limiting both devices to 32 GB of storage, and no backlit keyboard.

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.

(A few months before, the IRS had received a slap on the wrist for not enforcing cryptocurrency tax compliance).

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

Not exact matches

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.

While Wells has received some heavy wrist - slapping for getting caught with its pants down, its seems based on the bloated compensation awarded to the CEO and the fact that, based on the true accounting below, Wells doesn't seem to mind continuing to operate with its pants and underwear draped like a pedophile around its ankles.

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.

I think I saw this on MSNBC the other night.Seems like the Penn State officials have too much baucarerucy when it comes to reporting crimes on campus and that they're too big to jail like how the Wall Streeters have been getting off easy not even with a slap on the wrist (for now).

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

There's no percentage in trying to psychoanalyze the big - hitting buffoon from Bagdad; instead we'll let Bishop, ever so gently, slap Watson on the wrist for his juvenile, less than charitable behavior.

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)

Orange Crushed The Syracuse basketball program, slapped on the wrists two weeks ago by the NCAA for assorted rules violations, was dealt another stinging blow Monday when the NCAA announced that center Conrad McRae could begin serving a previously announced three - game suspension by sitting out exhibitions against Marathon Oil and Kazakhstan's national team.

When they were reprimanded for flashing a «T» for TOGA in the end zone, it was a slap on the wrist.

Troy deeney setting a great example for the younger generation right there but I bet he doesn't even get a slap on wrist??

As for Barcelona chasing Bellerin Arsenal should report them to FIFA for «tapping up» at the very least unsettling the player mind you as it is Barcelona just a slap on the wrist would be the punishment!!

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

If she denies visitation, I have to wait for ten more things to happen, file a contempt charge, wait two months to go to court for a judge to slap her on the wrist.

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».»

The punishment for leaving a dog out in the freezing cold to potentially die should be beyond a mere slap on the wrist, pay your fine and go back to your puppy mill to extract more blood money.

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

When the party's statement finally lands — at 1.24 pm — it names both men, suspending Livingstone for bringing Labour into disrepute while ordering Mann to report to the chief whip, Rosie Winterton, for what would ultimately be just a slap on the wrist.

«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.

Harry Brown (R for sexuality, drug use, pervasive profanity and graphic violence) Revenge flick about a recently - widowed, law - abiding senior citizen (Michael Caine) who morphs into a crime - fighting vigilante after the street gang that murdered his best friend (David Bradley) gets off with a slap on the wrist.

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.

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.

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.

And when the issue involves anti-trust violations and price fixing, it can seem like it's not enough for the government to slap you on the wrist, if damages in the ball park of $ 266 million to $ 500 million can be seen as a little slap.

And when the issue involves anti-trust violations and price fixing, it can seem like it's not enough for the government to slap you on the wrist, if damages in the ball park of $ 266 million to $ 500 million can be seen as a little... [Read more...]

Tuesday's decision by the Texas Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners to suspend self - proclaimed cat - killer Kristen Lindsey's license to practice veterinary medicine for one year has left animal advocates and animal welfare groups such as Alley Cat Allies and the Animal Legal Defense Fund extremely disappointed, viewing it as a simply a «slap on the wrist.»

In one past court appearence this «woman» got a «slap on the wrist» for killing a PUPPY by slaming it up against a pole!

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.

I'm truly heartbroken for this animal but at the same time enraged with the pitiful «slap on the wrist» that Summer's owner got.

Mandatory jail time (not just a slap on the wrist) for animal abusers as well.