Sentences with word «slapdown»
His comments were jeered by some audience members and earnt him a sharp slapdown from David Dimbleby, who stressed that the audience was chosen to be representative by an independent polling organisation.
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In a statement, Sessions defends himself and his department from his boss» latest slapdown on Twitter.
Commons Speaker John Bercow issued an unprecedented slapdown to Sajid Javid after the business...
The winner of the five - way slapdown is expected to face GOPer Dan Donovan, the Staten Island district attorney, in November.
The humiliating slapdown adds to doubts about how credible the Conservatives are as a potential government, when they appear to be only three months away from taking office.
Commons Speaker John Bercow issued an unprecedented slapdown to Sajid Javid after the business secretary spent too long delivering a Commons statement.
Marc Andreessen's deeply offensive tweet about India and colonialism may have earned him a slapdown from Mark Zuckerberg, but it highlighted a very real problem with Facebook's «Free Basics» scheme.
She was among those who re-emerged in the late 1980s, only to face a slapdown.
Bercow was probably grateful when Balls distracted attention from the slapdown by observing: «The idea of the Lord Mandelson attending any meeting informally is not anything I've experienced.»
An ally of Mr Johnson told the same newspaper he could have to come out in public to defend himself in the event of another slapdown.
The Mail on Sunday has followed up on the slapdown that David Cameron gave to Mr Carswell at last Wednesday's PMQs by commissioning a special opinion poll from the Survation organisation to evaluate whether the Clacton MP's brand of Conservatism is indeed more popular than the PM's brand.
«It was quite a slapdown, actually,» said Parete of Mott's decision.
If Wladimir Klitschko went to town on Mary Berry, it wouldn't be as brutal a slapdown as John Bercow gave Sajid Javid this afternoon.
Last week, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said the customs partnership plan was «crazy», earning him a slapdown from Downing Street.
The shallowness of Sajak's Global Warming Denier is provided well enough by Grist's slapdown... and thousands of other discussions and documents and scientific reports and, well, reality.
However, in what passes as a slapdown in the diplomatic niceties of the United Nations overseeing the IPCC, the 0.2 - 2 per cent range by the final report is «presented in a way that is much more nuanced, and I believe, much more useful», co-chair of the report, Stanford professor Chris Field, told Australian journalists.