Sentences with phrase «slapped in the face by»

«Hydro One has slapped us in the face by going shopping for a utility that owns one of the largest polluters in the U.S. northwest,» added Angela Bishoff of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance.

The industry in general took a turn for the worse when sitewide links got slapped in the face by Google and many of these markets — and the sites that supported them — got significantly hit.

«When you get slapped in the face by failure, you have to think why» and find solutions.

Interestingly enough, this habit is incredibly annoying to everyone except the chatter, who never seems to notice that his chance of getting slapped in the face by his victim is increasing with each second.

This style will keep you warm in the colder months and you can rest easy in the knowledge that, however blustery things get, you won't be slapped in the face by your own accessories.

In other words, craft another satisfying take - away moment that the reader will enjoy, so they don't feel slapped in the face by the fact that the story just stops in the middle of the action.

It's the time of year when you can't move outside your house for fear of being slapped in the face by ferociously pink plastic hearts.

then turning around and slapping us all in the face by deleting the reviews, you know?

Im tired of having my money wasted and being slapped in the face by sony.

My cynicism has been slapped in the face by the games industry showing some pretty cool new things in a once underrepresented genre.

Then you will be given the anti-dote... fifty - five slaps in the face by a left - handed right - wing conservative politician looking for your vote in the next election.

Not exact matches

TMZ reports the former Hollywood mogul was leaving Elements restaurant at the Sanctuary Camelback Mountain Resort when he was approached by a man who slapped him twice in the face with the back of his hand.

All you christian regulars who have vehemently denied the big bang and called it a lie or a plot by atheists to persecute christians or an absolute impossibility... need to slap yourselves forcefully in the face if you are now trying to say that the big bang is a proof of your god's existence.

Instead I suggest what Jesus was saying, and by doing so slapping the Sanhedrin in the face while doing so... was that God commands any ruler caught attempting the above was to be killed out of hand.

People should be insulted & offended by the fact that some people still believe this ridiculous nonsense that we call «The Bible» and that a television network has the right to slap us in the face with this propaganda once again.

I have to concede that due to the continual and seemingly never ending turmoil at our club, compounded by the slap in the face to the fans by Wenger accepting another two years — I am considering suspending my support for Arsenal temporarily — until this footballing vandal leaves.

Although Romain Grosjean expected a tough outing in Mexico, he says being out - qualified by Sauber was a «bit of a slap in the face.»

Seeing Mertesacker, with all of his experience, all of his leadership, lose a game within a few minutes was a slap in the face — made worse by Arsenal looking like a lost team at home.

In the words of veteran CSL journalist Zhao Zhen: «This substitution by Liaoning was really a slap in the face for the FA.&raquIn the words of veteran CSL journalist Zhao Zhen: «This substitution by Liaoning was really a slap in the face for the FA.&raquin the face for the FA.»

In horror, I watched her abuse our cat by starting to pet him gently and then either try to choke him, or pin him down and slap him repeatedly in the facIn horror, I watched her abuse our cat by starting to pet him gently and then either try to choke him, or pin him down and slap him repeatedly in the facin the face.

The offer, which drops in $ 100,000 increments at various deadlines and expires Oct. 31, was characterized as «an insult, a slap in the face» by one Park Board member.

«The action taken by the President can not in the remotest sense by any shred of legal reasoning or imagination amounts to a slap in the face of the judiciary,» he said.

Labour First, shadowy right - wing Old Labour group run by John Spellar got in first (though the mouth of former Labour national executive member Luke Akehurst), describing the new group as «a slap in the face for grassroots campaigners ``.

What sticks in the craw more than anything else was the smiling faces on the front bench and then the back slapping of Gorgeous George, led by Danny Alexander and Nick Clegg.

«By not allowing this to come to the floor, by even mentioning that nine points is adequate for the women of this state is absolutely a slap in the face.&raquBy not allowing this to come to the floor, by even mentioning that nine points is adequate for the women of this state is absolutely a slap in the face.&raquby even mentioning that nine points is adequate for the women of this state is absolutely a slap in the face.»

Article 72 of the country's constitution gives the President, in consultation of the Council of State, the power to exercise a prerogative of mercy to convicts, but the Policy Advisor for the PPP, Kofi Asamoah Siaw, told Citi News any decision by the President to revoke the sentencing will «be a slap in the face of the judiciary».

To give a honorary doctorate degree to an undeserving Nigerian by this world's reknown university is the biggest slap on the faces of the 180 million Nigerians in 2015».

So the first high - level slap was delivered to the face of upstart ecologists and conservationists, a slap that resulted in the enormous environmental problems of the former Soviet Union now revealed by devolution, such as the drying up of the Aral Sea.

Unlike the gyms of yesterday that were dominated by sweaty, manly men with vein - popping biceps who looked like someone slapped them in the face every time a girl walked into their muscle building shrine, in the gyms of today we get to see plenty of women sporting extraordinary bodies with powerful, lean muscles.

I'll preface this article by saying that it will help if you have an open mind and accept that some of these facts are a slap in the face to politically correct nutrition in this day and age where fats are admonished by many doctors, health «experts», and the mass media.

My favorite slap in the face to a swanky outfit, brought back down to earth by a simple hat.

Our fear is spring is going to pass us by and summer is going to slap us in the face!!

I stood up from the bench we were sitting on in the heart of the campus quad, gently lifted his chin (by the look on his face, he may have been expecting a good bye kiss) and then SMACK — he got a hearty slap, right across the face.

Actress Sarah Tither - Kaplan told the LA Times that Franco's show of support for the Time's Up movement, founded by powerful women in Hollywood to combat workplace sexual harassment, was a «slap in my face.»

This movie was an audacious slap in the face to American cinema, and while it's easy to imagine we were all taken in by an Alan Ball confidence scheme that had us mistaking artsy - fartsy rose petals and white - male - ennui as profound, there is a confidence to this movie that manages to justify itself.

But while desperately awaiting that proverbial «knight in shining armor» to materialize, Precious finds herself repeatedly slapped in the face, whether literally, by her mom, or figuratively, by a social service bureaucracy way too willing to let her slip through the cracks.

James Franco's decision to wear a Time's Up pin has been described as a «slap in my face» by a former pupil of his film school.

Director Martin Scorsese has paid tribute to Margot Robbie's acting talents — and recounted how she secured her Wolf Of Wall Street role by slapping Leonardo DiCaprio in the face.

Where the third segment rests on Zhao's powerful performance, even in an almost comically obvious sequence where she's slapped in the face with a stack of bills, the last is similarly marred by an errant strain of sentimentalism.

The narrative is fueled by the intimidating clack of shoe heels across wooden floors, the slap of faces hit by fists, the wail of anguish choked by a mute girl in an unbearable back - alley abortion.

-- but after delivering a movie whose logic was so muddled and whose imagination was so hamstrung by tepid characters and nonsensical plotting, that final scene could feel like a real slap in the face.

Following Ubisoft \'s slap in the face to Wii U fans yesterday, by not just announcing Rayman: Legends was no longer exclusive but delaying it to September, some angered fans have made a petition... Rayman Fans Petition Ubisoft...

This action by the NAACP is a slap in the face to 700,000 African American children currently benefiting from public charter schools and the millions of African American parents struggling to give their children a quality education.

As evidenced by the three spectacular new sports machines you see here — the Chevrolet Camaro Z / 28, the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat, and the Ford Mustang GT — the Big Three aren't just back, they're taking names and slapping in - your - face high - fives each time they humiliate a sniffy rival.

My aunt Beth lived in a house by Lake Nokomis, and my bedroom had a window the morning sun blared into, slapping me in the face and shouting, Wake up!

In prose poems and poetic essays as sharp and stinging as a surprise slap to the face, Rankine matter - of - factly chronicles ordinary encounters poisoned by racism.

Nope, the comment about indies was a slap in the face not only to me but to every author who has taken advantage of the new opportunities provided by Amazon and other e-tailers.

It's basically a slap in the face as well as Amazon trying to counter negative press by making an unreasonable proposition that they know no one is interested in.

I want to be woken up by the book slapping me in the face when I fall asleep reading at 2 am.

This situation is going to sound very «cartoonish», but I assure you it is no joke and a fact that I've just recently been slapped in the face with... I myself was brought up to highly value the dollar by my family so I still don't quite understand people who abuse both money or «bad» debt (credit cards, auto loans, student loans & etc).