Sentences with phrase «wristed slap in»

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Who'd like to bet it'll the same old story once again — a slap on the wrist and they'll be back to «business as usual» in a couple of months?

You can avoid the slaps on the wrist if you had at least as much income tax withheld this year as last (unless you make more than $ 150,000, in which case you have to hold back at least 110 percent of the prior year's withholding).

In the end, Cohn pulled off a wrist - slap settlement that spared Trump and his father from a guilty plea or any financial penalty.

They got the slap on the wrists they deserved as a wake up call to the real world, which is very very skiddish about people practicing foreign religions on an airplane in public.

First, the viral video of police brutality during the student riots following the Terps beating Duke where the video provided evidence contradicting police accounts and resulted in (wrist - slap) suspensions of some the officers involved.

They might get a slap on the wrist and spend a night in jail.

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.

My point, who cares, your religion is not what I want deciding if we need jobs or a way to create them or how victims of crime who are uninsured get medical bills paid or using your religion to decide who deserves what time in prison and who gets a slap on teh wrist.

Last month she gave only a soft slap on the wrist to Trump's reckless act: but with her international reputation in the balance, she must publicly show that on climate change she has far more in common with the rest of the world than with Donald Trump and join other leaders in defending and advancing the Paris Agreement.»

In December 2016, in a case where (as with the detergent) Bella Vista could've walked away with a relatively meaningless fine and a slap on the wrist, the Fresh Food People changed tack, staring down Sims over unconscionable conduct chargeIn December 2016, in a case where (as with the detergent) Bella Vista could've walked away with a relatively meaningless fine and a slap on the wrist, the Fresh Food People changed tack, staring down Sims over unconscionable conduct chargein a case where (as with the detergent) Bella Vista could've walked away with a relatively meaningless fine and a slap on the wrist, the Fresh Food People changed tack, staring down Sims over unconscionable conduct charges.

However, as noted in the report from the Sun, Monreal had supposedly risked breaking «strict piracy laws», and it was claimed that he would have to remove the video and had already potentially done enough to earn a slap on the wrists from Instagram.

At 95 mph Hull's slap shot is the fastest in the league, but his wrist shot, that seemingly easy flick he uses when in full flight, has been timed at 105 mph.

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.

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

The spineless football authorities will perhaps give him a token fine and a slap on the wrist, since they too are complicit in keeping the game from becoming honest and ethical.

Everyone was in favor of a slap on the wrist — everyone except the defensive coordinator, Ol' Hangin» Judge Stallings.

Under the new code, which the tour unveiled at a players» meeting on Tuesday, a competitor must take a shot within 40 seconds (the first to play in a group receives an additional 10 seconds) or incur the wrist - slapping penalty.

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

They give midwives who don't recognize a baby is in danger (look at Aquila, who died because her mom had a placental abruption) a slap on the wrist... a six month suspension, or less.

This is a step in the right direction and would put down a marker to formula companies that failure to comply is not going to be a mere slap on the wrists.

He was of the view that «history will yet record also that when militants of the NPP violently stormed a court, freed suspects on trial and threatened the presiding judge with assault, they did not receive even a slap on their wrists, they were in fact set free».

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.

Cuomo budget spokesman Morris Peters said the state will also make sure traffic - court judges are made aware of accused speeders» driving histories in the hopes that repeat offenders receive more than just a slap on the wrist.

Bloomberg complained there are too many cases in which state arbitrators impose only a slap on the wrist to teachers found guilty of sexually inappropriate behavior toward students.

Some civil servant, somewhere in Whitehall, has probably had their wrist firmly slapped.

The eagle - eyed clerk in the table office called us and gave me slap on the wrist.

But both these sanctions have not been used in many years and the more likely outcome is that they will get a slap on the wrist by Parliament.

Instead the leader of the House of Commons received a slap on the wrists in the form of a letter «making clear that failure to report on time is a serious matter».

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.

SANFORD did something illegal and he is still in office and the SC congress gave him a slap on the wrist and enabled him to stay in office.

But the social and behavioral sciences do receive a slap on the wrists: None of the $ 99 million in additional research dollars can be allocated to that directorate.

In light of the massive profits and the outrageous nature of the offenses committed by Canada Drugs, the sentence is nothing more than a «slap on the wrist.»

And while We Happy Few may imitate the Bioshock series in some ways, they do differ in the gameplay department as permadeath is a foundation of the experience unlike in Bioshock where death was more of a temporary slap on the wrist by a nun who could not be bothered to put any real effort into her swing.

Those words aren't in the dictionary and your editor would slap your wrist.

She was eventually caught and sentenced to only six months house arrest, a slap on the wrist in comparison to the scope of her crimes.

So, on September 5th, the black students organized a peaceful sit - in under the «white tree» in protest of the slap on the wrist doled out to the perpetrators.

The Academy took pity on PwC though, and following a thorough investigation, new checks and a slap on the wrist, they'll be back in the hot seat once again.

(This slap on the wrist is a nice final joke — or «button,» to comedy writers — but doubling as satire, it also points to the way in which rich white men are treated when caught with drugs.)

«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.

In the opening scene, an upper - middle - class family drives to their house in the country, heavy metal music sarcastically blasting on the soundtrack (not the family's car stereo, which plays bourgeois - appropriate classical), and even before the whore has gotten a chance to flash her jewels, Haneke is already slapping her on the wrisIn the opening scene, an upper - middle - class family drives to their house in the country, heavy metal music sarcastically blasting on the soundtrack (not the family's car stereo, which plays bourgeois - appropriate classical), and even before the whore has gotten a chance to flash her jewels, Haneke is already slapping her on the wrisin the country, heavy metal music sarcastically blasting on the soundtrack (not the family's car stereo, which plays bourgeois - appropriate classical), and even before the whore has gotten a chance to flash her jewels, Haneke is already slapping her on the wrist.

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.

The interesting — and paradoxical — upshot here is that the greatest hope for the continuation of an active federal government in K — 12 schooling is highly able and highly responsible states: if states handle their ESEA waivers well, then there will be no need for ED to slap wrists and therefore no additional fuel for those claiming federal overreach.

After a brief suspension Thurgood has been reinstated in her teaching position, with nothing more than a slap on the wrist and a promise from the school that the survey would not be used again.

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.

He's taken to a remote community led by a charismatic counter-cultural sociopath known as Freeboot who's obsessed with the supposed hidden messages buried within old Beatles lyrics and 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...]

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!