| The words resounded like a slap in the face not only for the small-l liberals in his party, but in the community as well. |
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| This would be a subtle slap in the face to industrialism, consumerism and corporatism, none of which had a positive impact on the last century. |
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| A big World Cup would be a slap in the face for the doubters, not to mention providing a huge boost for the chances of the Wallabies. |
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| Maybe it's because I have been so generously compensated in the past that this feels a little like a slap in the face. |
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| It's almost a slap in the face that because of this, I will potentially have to change my whole life. |
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| It is a slap in the face for those employees who went on strike for better pay. |
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| A reflection came across her mind and the thought came like a slap in the face. |
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| Going soft on burglars and car thieves, she added, was a slap in the face for their victims. |
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| It's a slap in the face to the victims and to the families of these people. |
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| The loss of announcers and the lack of moves called is a slap in the face and an insult to wrestling. |
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| Although a largely ceremonial position, some abuse victims saw it as a slap in the face. |
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| To use Memorial Day to make up for a snow day is a slap in the face to every person in Alexandria who has lost someone to the perils of war. |
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| It is pathetic and woeful, and it is a slap in the face of the victims of this country. |
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| It was a slap in the face that Canada's indigenous people have not forgotten. |
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| For the thousands who had lost relatives or friends, it had the effect of a further slap in the face. |
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| The board also issued a terse statement which was a big slap in the face for their second-largest individual shareholder. |
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| For every pat on the back there has been a slap in the face. |
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| That to me is a slap in the face to the work of the health committee and to the people and witnesses who contributed to that work. |
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| By-elections are traditionally the time when the electorate gives the government in power a slap in the face, expressing discontent with the way things are going. |
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| They sat down in the dark and received a slap in the face, a blatant provocation, a set of jump leads hooked on to their chests. |
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| This belittles and makes light of Canadians' safety and it is also a major slap in the face to those who have been victims of firearms. |
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| The Estonian statement implied the alleged abduction is an intentional slap in the face to the Americans. |
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| The ending is not only anticlimactic, it feels like a slap in the face. |
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| Legal justification may help him sleep at night, but to those who are already affected by this tragedy such excuses are a slap in the face. |
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| This type of name change is nothing less than a slap in the face of the standing committee. |
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| And certainly our comments on consultation are in no way meant to be a slap in the face of the efforts of this committee and your efforts. |
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| It would be a slap in the face to a good friend of Europe if this summit does not go ahead in some shape or form. |
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| This is another slap in the face for the inshore fishery in eastern Canada. |
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| For this clause to be added to the bill is a slap in the face of democracy. |
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| They could have done a lot of things, but no, what we got from this government was a slap in the face. |
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| It was a brutal slap in the face to Quebeckers when they were told they were being denied the equalization surplus. |
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| If that happened, it would be a slap in the face for all the European citizens who are so enthusiastic today. |
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| Amnesty International described the sentence as yet another slap in the face of freedom of expression in Egypt. |
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| It would be an insult to Scottish women to allow him to fight here, and it is a slap in the face over all the campaigns against domestic violence against women. |
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| Now they insult all the victims or off-spring with this slap in the face. |
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| Such a massive increase to those lawyers who have already enjoyed a bonanza from the Tribunal is a contemptuous slap in the face to the ordinary worker. |
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| The outcome is a slap in the face for thousands of people who took part in a household survey asking for their views only to find them summarily disregarded. |
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| I would hate to think she was asleep at the switch while her colleague was giving the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie a slap in the face. |
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| Sometimes a great movie line has the impact of a slap in the face. |
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| When the announcement was made, it was a great slap in the face for farmers to find out that agriculture is no longer important in today's society. |
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| This is a huge slap in the face for those who do not believe in democracy. |
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| In February, to ensure the loyalty of the troops, Calderón gave them a pay raise of over 45 percent-a slap in the face to the working masses who received less than 4 percent. |
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| It has been a slap in the face to the way in which people try to build healthy communities and support people who live in such difficult situations. |
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| The December budget and the government's responses about the committee's interim report in November and last year's report on procurement are a slap in the face to every committee and Canadian forces member. |
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| Canada has been given a slap in the face by our longest and closest ally, Great Britain, which said that Canadians will no longer be eligible for the Commonwealth scholarships. |
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| Let us avoid these children being given yet another slap in the face. |
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| It's a slap in the face also to those poor graduate nurses expected to work for pittance while those at the top rake it in. |
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| That Joan's ex-boyfriend turned up to the school dance with Mary was a slap in the face for Joan, and now the girls are no longer best friends. |
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| Along with other comments about the military pay, CDS General Baril was quoted as saying that the pay raise wasn't much, but it was better than a slap in the face with a frozen mukluk. |
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| Poems for the Millennium was a slap in the face of the official verse mediocracy of the New Yorker, New York Review of Books, and major US prize awarders. |
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