| Yet even at their most far-fetched offerings, the band's only elicited a mere chuckle and slap on the wrist from critics. |
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| You know, it's not a slap on the wrist, it's very, very strict supervision for the next ten years of his life. |
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| That was all, a slap on the wrist and a lecture, and he was off the hook, as he did so often to his students. |
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| But they believe in adequate punishment and their punishments are rarely as light as a slap on the wrist. |
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| Why do students think they can always break the law and be let off with just a reprimand or a slap on the wrist? |
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| All you would get, apparently, would be a slap on the wrist, a telling-off but also praise for work well done. |
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| Hacking into computer networks was long seen as little more than a prank, and punishment was typically a slap on the wrist. |
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| Only the writers get the virtual slap on the wrist for artificially inserting too much melodrama into a story that should have been a comic romp. |
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| Though the decision was quite damning, maco got what amounted to a slap on the wrist. |
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| They feel Canadian judges are the worst and are liable to give criminals who appear before them nothing but a slap on the wrist. |
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| In fact, some of the key drug criminals in our communities are getting a slap on the wrist if they are even penalized in the courts. |
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| This puts some teeth into the act and is another signal to offenders that their behaviour has consequences, not just a slap on the wrist. |
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| People can get away with all kinds of stuff in this country in this regard and they know they're just going to get a slap on the wrist. |
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| They are criticized by some as a slap on the wrist for those who should be punished severely and as a glorified probation order. |
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| But critics suggest they constitute only a slap on the wrist. |
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| While that might just seem like a slap on the wrist compared to the cost of insurance, the penalty increases every year. |
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| But around that age, you usually get one second chance after a slap on the wrist. |
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| Many times we have seen examples where fraudsters have gotten away with literally a slap on the wrist. |
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| British Columbians and residents of Abbotsford are tired of watching criminals execute violence and get off with a slap on the wrist. |
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| That might have gotten him in some trouble and given him a slap on the wrist from his government. |
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| We need them because sentences for these offenders amount to little more than a simple slap on the wrist. |
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| So, the Bush Justice Department gave Sandy a slap on the wrist and let him cop a plea. |
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| Maximum sentences are meaningless if the courts do not impose them, choosing instead to mete out little more than a slap on the wrist with time served in the community. |
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| Police chiefs have talked about the work that they do, the investigative time and effort and the paperwork to get people into court and they get a slap on the wrist. |
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| If they do that, they do not even get a slap on the wrist. |
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| The person would be a convicted criminal and then the government would say it is okay because the person will get a very light slap on the wrist because the government recognizes that it really was not the individual's fault. |
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| Promise seven is they will continue the slap on the wrist penalties for violent criminals in our society and they will continue to use conditional sentencing when dealing with convicted violent criminals in our society. |
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| There are people who are going to think they can get away with it anyway, but that threat of something more than a slap on the wrist has to be there if you're going to ever hope to influence them. |
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| We have to make sure that problem drivers do not have that weapon repeatedly put back into their hands with only a slap on the wrist to deter them. |
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| Now that the Speaker of the House has given him a slap on the wrist, will the Prime Minister acknowledge that he is in the minority and stop trying to impose his backward ideology at all costs? |
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| In both touristy capital cities and small towns, shop owners sometimes receive a slap on the wrist for accepting them so they are not a systematically recommended solution. |
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| The presiding member concluded that the downgrading constituted more of a slap on the wrist than a true response to concerns about national security. |
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| In the past, such offenses resulted in little more than a slap on the wrist in the form of fines imposed by the Ethics Commission. |
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| The Commons Standards and Privileges Committee gave him a slap on the wrist by recommending a three-day suspension. |
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| Thousands are being let off with a slap on the wrist despite a promised blitz on the crime. |
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| But, true to Japan's pro-corporation tradition, the company faces just a slap on the wrist. |
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| I can imagine Lord Fergie, the board and their legal team from Twats R Us thinking it wouldn't be more than a slap on the wrist. |
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| Adulteresses are stoned, adulterers get a slap on the wrist. |
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