Sentences with phrase «threat of a slap»

While the threat of a slap on the hand might be enough to deter some potential shoplifters, cutting off offenders» hands might not be enough to deter others.

Not exact matches

Asia's emerging economies have a lot at stake if President Donald Trump delivers on his threat to slap tariffs on up to $ 150 billion worth of Chinese goods.

Despite a threat by the U.S. Department of Commerce to slap a 219 per cent countervailing duty on jets made by Montreal's Bombardier, however, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland was resolutely upbeat when she faced the media.

President Donald Trump upped the ante late Thursday with a threat to slap tariffs on a further $ 100 billion of Chinese exports.

BEIJING / WASHINGTON China warned on Friday it was fully prepared to respond with a «fierce counter strike» of fresh trade measures if the United States follows through on President Donald Trump's threat to slap tariffs on an additional $ 100 billion of Chinese goods.

If civil rights activists could march from Selma to Montgomery under the threat of dogs and cattle prods and water hoses, can not you and I take a slap in the face without slapping back?

Beavers, slapping their tails against the threat of passing canoes, possess a kind of goofy charm — they're about my favorite animal, Still, there is something remarkably compulsive about them.

The major threat to passing on something to the next generation, and the real slap in the face for having been provident and saved for your old age, - all middle class pre-occupations - is that the increasing costs of care will wipe out any savings.

Sampat often illustrates how she would make good on such threats by wildly slapping and punching her imaginary opponent, until she snaps out of her violent reveries with a torrent of hoarse, hearty chuckles that make her cheeks rosy.

We slapped a thick stack of your questions on the table, cracked our knuckles, and extracted the answers via a combination of brow beating, idle threats, and good old - fashioned seduction.

A review study [25] reported that 72.7 % of children exposed to IPV witnessed psychological IPV and that 90.1 % were exposed to physical IPV, such as hearing verbal threats and seeing slapping and kicking.