Sentences with phrase «smacked by»

Hubby said just turn the fan on but I had visions of them getting smacked by the fan.

The country's two most popular phone makers, Apple (AAPL) and Samsung, are still getting smacked by dozens of lawsuits from so - called «patent trolls,» which are shell companies that make no products.

The Mann «they've taken over», Santer's refusing to publish in Nature «cuz Heike smacked him by ignoring him.

Believe me, nothing is more aggravating than getting smacked by a grandmother avatar and then put into a piledriver.

But I'm too gob - smacked by the whole cast to scrutinize individual tattoos.

For example, if a puppy has an accident, rolling up a newspaper to smack the pup only teaches him to associate the bodily function with the discomfort of being smacked by a newspaper.

Credit card fraud is so prevalent you'll likely get smacked by it at some point, but it isn't as worrisome because the money charged to a credit card isn't coming directly out of your bank account.

The Americans were gob smacked by the Japanese.

Being only two years apart, they'd shared the nursery practically from birth, which meant he had clear memories of her running about in a diaper, being smacked by Nurse Wiggan for being smart.»

Totally gob smacked by the size - leviathan monster yet not in your face SUV style and those wheels wow... I want one!!!

To produce the cornering force of a tetherball smacked by an angry sixth - grader, the Senna relies upon a symphony of systems working in perfect synchronicity.

At barely over two hours, the movie is over before I even knew it, in such constant motion heading deeper and deeper into the gloomy waters of the subconscious revealing answers to personal questions those who must grapple with them only thought they wanted to know before finding themselves gob - smacked by the truth.

Written and directed by Stacie Passon (making her debut), the film is a poignant sexual examination of Abby (Robin Weigert), a forty - something, married, wealthy, lesbian homemaker who, after suffering a blow to the head from getting smacked by her son's baseball — walks around every corner of her suburban life to confront a mounting desire for something else.

Written and directed by Stacie Passon in an auspicious directing debut effort, and produced by Rose Troche, CONCUSSION is a poignant sexual examination of Abby (Robin Weigert in a star making breakout turn), a forty something married wealthy, lesbian housewife who, after suffering a blow to the head from getting smacked by her son's baseball — walks around every corner of her suburban life to confront a mounting desire for something else.

The mosquitoes» undetectable departure, which lets them avoid being smacked by an annoyed host, may be part of the reason A. coluzzii so effectively spreads malaria, a parasitic disease that kills hundreds of thousands of people each year.

Although the Atlantic Ocean was quiet during the 2015 hurricane season, the eastern Pacific was smacked by storm after storm.

I was gob smacked by his magical and unbelievable season last season almost literally shouldering the team but yet again he has gone under the weather, too slow and untidy passes.

The Jacksonville Jaguars had quite a forgettable trip to London, getting smacked by the San Francisco 49ers 42 - 10.

Not enough to get smacked by Ostersunds, Brighton, Watford, Swansea and you name it, I don't remember which teams haven't beaten us yet, cause there are not many.

Ok so Aston Villa were the underdogs but look at the fuss made out of a possible disallowed penalty and free kick outside the area for AV on the BBC, when Ozil was clearly brought down inside the penalty area, but didn't make a fuss about it, got up and carried on, Bellerin was smacked by Agbonlahor with what looked like a forearm smash, or possibly an elbow in head and was down for a while, when the ball was on it's way, but hadn't even reached him and we weren't even allowed a replay by the BBC, let alone a comment on a possible penalty / free kick / yellow card.

We are smacked by Liverpool.

Very attack minded and same defense that got smacked by Brighton.

Europa is not FA cup, wait till everyone gets exhausted and we get smacked by teams we can't even spell, wishing for us to win the EL but you make it sound like we are already on the final while we haven't played a single game yet..

People keep forgetting that most government spending is transfer payments, but it is only purchases of labor and goods that go directly into the GDP calculations, and it is these accounts that will get smacked by the sequester of discretionary defense and non-defense budgets.

Although we expect the overall stock market to get more selective in the days ahead, we do not anticipate it to get smacked by the «sell in May and go away» crowd like last year.

He put up huge buildings and casinos, borrowed to do it, nearly wiped out, came back as a brand name that often needed bigger partners, was smacked by the financial crisis when he tried to again take massive risks, and ended up with a profitable business anyway.

Harvick backed up the smack by posting the fastest time in practice Friday.

«The Welsh Liberal Democrats have consistently supported banning smacking by ending the defence of reasonable chastisement.

Not exact matches

The move to preemptively brand «property scalpers» a problem, however, smacks of an effort to create a villain that the government can then vanquish — a useful tactic for a government headed by a leader with a record - low approval rating facing an election next year.

But in the meantime, I'm sure there's plenty of smack talk to be had by fans of both.

If you watched television in 2010, you were smacked in the face by the Garden State's bombardment of pop culture.

«It smacks a bit of the Bank of Scotland (HBOS) / Lloyds where you never know how much pressure is put on the biggest bank in Spain by the central bank so I'd be surprised if they had agreed to it under duress but that will come out,» he said.

This reflected the political significance of the possibility that an official recession would be confirmed by the numbers, right smack in the middle of an election campaign — all the more so -LSB-...]

The uniformity of that combination isn't coincidental, and it smacks of a sudden concern about the resilience of consumers, and by extension the economy and the stock market.

Tsipras will have to sell the deal to a body dominated by lawmakers opposed to anything that smacks of austerity.

«This is a two - by - four smacked across the foreheads of the people of Illinois,» Rauner said.

Get into the conversation about the future of transportation — don't be like the record companies who got smacked in the face by new technology

In contrast, stocks that decline tend to be on heavy volume, which smacks of «distribution» by large interests.

Trump's trade war could easily overshadow the Fed as it now seems likely that the US will be smacking China with $ 60 Billion in annual tariffs, possibly by the end of the week.

From blaming the victim to the way lyrics which glorify rape and smacking or killing your «bitch» seem to go unnoticed by people who should be in an uproar about it, to the ridiculously light sentences handed out to perpetrators of rape and even murder of a woman or child, our culture is tacitly condoning this mind - set by their very silence.

It was not authored by one person, and the implication that it is smacks of stupidity.

While the forces at work here may smack of a Jungian «collective unconscious» shared by all humanity, Orlando's analysis depends on the vagaries of history.

This smacks of either a guerrilla ad campaign by Catholics, or she's just so damned emotional or impulsive that anyone can sway her.

One - hit wonders only have one hit because they are smacked in the face by success, and have never built the strength it took to sustain it.

Here was a band politically committed in a way that smacked of the idealism of the 60s I had been reading about in library books, and that, sound-wise, was a bridge from the hard rock I was familiar with to the «new wave» I was becoming fascinated by.

Many of us were slammed by the Great Recession like a Pinata being smacked at a birthday party, and hopefully that will help us reap some sweet candy in the future.

The breakthrough in Sally's own TV career began as corpsing Travel Tavern receptionist Sophie opposite Steve Coogan in I'm Alan Partridge, later followed by her all - female comedy sketch show Smack the Pony with Fiona Allen and Doon Mackichan.

Thus the interests of the church were identified with opposition to an enlarged curriculum, and were defended by men who appeared as nay - sayers to all that smacked of imagination in higher education.

Such a request of prayer from Mary smacks of an effort to gain divine favor by some route other than Christ — the height of idolatry.

Instead of your grotesque monster god smacking them on the bottom and sending them to bed without supper, he chose to punish all humanity in perpetuity by placing the Curse of Original Sin on them.