True-to-form, Phil ended up throwing his considerable weight around and smacking his father-in-law to be. |
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They were the work of a determined minority of clergy and liturgists who had a horror of anything smacking of the transcendent. |
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The new law will prevent registered childminders from smacking or using any form of corporal punishment against children under eight. |
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The government needs to forget the new smacking law and bring back corporal punishment. |
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Policies like the smacking ban would criminalise law-abiding people, he said. |
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Their words sometimes resemble curses smacking of trash, provocations or an outburst of their personal emotion or the emotion of their own group. |
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He preys on vulnerable women with money, and has no problem smacking them around if they give him any grief. |
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The crack of helmets smacking helmets and the grunts and groans all had a familiar ring. |
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Inside every one of us lies a Puritan streak which abhors anything smacking of frivolity or done for the sheer joy of it. |
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The newly adopted Lords' amendment on smacking will inspire many parents to examine their past conduct. |
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The news that he was injured must have had them smacking their lips in anticipation. |
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In bake houses across the city, chefs are busy whipping up their festive-best offers, even as cake-crazy customers are smacking their lips. |
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She reapplied her shocking red lipstick in the rearview mirror, smacking her lips in satisfaction. |
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It's an insane effort, smacking of majoritarian tyranny and aggressive, hidebound religious-exclusivist ethics. |
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And so, in a cynical political exercise smacking of opportunism if not racism, they scapegoat the unborn children of non-national parents. |
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He preys on vulnerable women, and has no problem smacking them around if they give him any grief. |
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The city offers spicy, tangy and lip smacking food at every nook and corner. |
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It was basically like ballet except everybody went around smacking each other and giving each other piledrivers. |
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The sudden weight change threw her off balance and her head pitched forward, smacking into the metal. |
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He cracked a grin, but was shocked when Kate's other hand suddenly lashed across, smacking him in the side of the face. |
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It was so yummy that I didn't think twice about gathering all the crumbs off the bottom of the box with my wet finger tips then smacking my lips. |
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Startled, I jerked my hand away, smacking my head on one of the upper deck's support beams in the process. |
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The prolonged use of major tranquillizers can produce movement disorders, including tremors, tics, and smacking of the lips. |
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I see guys smacking their girlfriends' behinds at the subway station and on the train. |
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The prolonged use of neuroleptic drugs can produce movement disorders, including tremors, tics, and smacking of the lips. |
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Some of the standards include big lips smacking a kiss or a heavyset cartoon character who drops trou and cuts the cheese. |
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The four-day event will have a wide variety of lip smacking soya recipes, including tikka, patties and salads in Italian dressing and momos. |
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The bench area is 40 yards of turf or grass where the players sit and talk when they're not smacking each other upside the head. |
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It's hard to imagine how a drunk bully of a father is likely to remember a law that bans smacking. |
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When he finally arrives, cameras line up in front of questioners and the boom mike circles the room, smacking writers in their heads. |
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Most kids would be slumped in their seats, glaring at me for presuming to be the Dean, and smacking on gum. |
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I remember my mother smacking me because when a little cousin was staying with us I talked to him when he was in the lavatory. |
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If smacking children becomes illegal those people who really want to change or become better parents will not speak out for fear of consequences. |
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Brandon sped down the highway, smacking the steering wheel with the palm of his hand. |
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I opened my eyes and realized Paul's meaty hands were around my throat and he was smacking the back of my head on the floor. |
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Scott jackets the entire shaft in impact-resistant fiberglass so it won't splinter when a rogue wave has you smacking it against the gunwale. |
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She elbowed the back of Bashir's head, smacking his face against the ground and leaving him unconscious, and that was that. |
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Jacob leaped again, then darted downward from midair, smacking right into Steve's chest and knocking them both down. |
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Kaafk pushed another large piece of bird into his mouth, lips smacking, a sincere effort, then chased the swallow with wine. |
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The sound of someone else's smacking lips and clonking teeth makes the stomach scream in protest. |
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I would personally feel justified smacking any would-be assassin upside their head. |
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The Irish father is a brute of a colonial policeman who, when not violating his child, enjoys casually smacking her in the mouth. |
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Marvin Robinson, played onside by Wayne Jacobs, licked his lips and gobbled up the invitation by smacking it by Paul Henderson. |
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There may be good moral arguments for opposing the smacking of children, but they are not to be found in the realm of scientific research. |
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There was a heavy smacking noise as my hands contacted the cement, and then a softer crack as my right shoulder joint shifted out of position. |
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She was smacking loudly on a chew of gum as she went to give her son a bear hug and a kiss. |
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These aren't matter-of-fact troopers following orders, but sadistic voluptuaries, smacking their lips in satisfaction while doing a job that's fun. |
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Today started off with me losing my balance while heading for a seat on the train and smacking my head hard on the thingamabob that juts out above the window. |
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A father was barred from his own home and separated from his family for six months after he was spotted smacking his young son during a shopping trip. |
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While his batman stood quietly aside he paced back and forth in front of me a couple of turns, smacking his baton into his hand, then squared off in front of me. |
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They can spy-hop by poking their heads out of the water, or tail-lob by smacking their flukes on the surface. |
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He wants to revoke a law against parents smacking their children and another one legalising same-sex marriage. |
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There are a number of factors that contributed to the success of Splodge as a means for children to convey their views about smacking. |
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Section 58 of the 2004 Children's Act gave children greater protection than adults against assault without outlawing mild smacking. |
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A 2007 study had shown that smacking was declining in the family, especially among the younger generation. |
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They are also very acrobatic, often breaching and smacking the surface with their flippers and flukes. |
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It suggests smacking the clove with the flat blade of a knife. |
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In general, what I stated was that the entire pursuit was an opiate, faulty in fundamental respects and smacking of deception, insincerity and bogusness. |
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This may seem like something very minor to some people, but the sight and sound of chewed food and smacking lips at the table make me lose my appetite. |
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I remained almost transcendentally calm, Christ-like in my turning of the other cheek and Gandhi-like in my restraint from smacking him in the mouth. |
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The campaign to make smacking a crime will do more harm than good. |
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But we are appealing to all parents to rethink smacking for the sake of the small number of children whose parents or carers beat and thrash them within an inch of their life. |
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The pilot seemed oblivious to my foot smacking him in the back of the head, so I sat back and allowed myself to be inducted into this elite organisation. |
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For example, spousal violence was only criminalized twenty years ago and lobby groups are pushing for similar moves to prevent a defence to smacking children. |
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Instead, the Security Council has been revealed as a committee of querulous clerks, fussily reviewing the U.S. hegemon's paperwork before smacking it with the rubber stamp. |
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Suppose you're a believer in not smacking children to discipline them. |
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He hit the ground hard and fast, jostling every bone in his body and smacking his head against the back wall of the pod, immediately losing consciousness. |
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This best kept secret restaurant in Birmingham is a perfect choice to mellow out after savoring their lip smacking foods. |
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A UK research project with younger children on smacking, conducted in schools, asked for a member of staff to sit in on all their sessions. |
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Today, you'll find them with controller in hand, glued to the TV, stealing bases and smacking home runs on the hand-held video version of the old sandlot standby. |
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What about the law against the IRS smacking Tea Party-type nonprofits over the head with a two-by-four? |
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They snuffle and snort while foraging and manipulate prey solely with the mouth, chewing with noisy smacking of the jaws. |
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In Africa, smacking the bottom of a child who had misbehaved was not necessarily seen as ill-treatment. |
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You''ll be smacking your lips as you line up three or more matching food items in this delicious new action-puzzler! |
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Whatever, it was the material on smacking that most interested me, perhaps because I am a reformed smacker myself. |
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She did a pretty good job at first, but she did get a little bit hurt by smacking her bow arm with the string. |
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A car had swerved out of control, plowing into two other cars, then smacking into several people on the sidewalk. |
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Our dining companion, not one to shy away from rich food, unsurprisingly polished this off, smacking his lips and barely allowing us even a mouthful. |
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Distraction works better than shouting, telling-off or smacking. |
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It took two weeks for him to address the issue publicly, while his wife Patience was accused of melodrama smacking of insincerity when she met mothers of the kidnapped girls. |
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Campaign pack Raise your hand against smacking! |
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I tried a full gainer with a twist, the way he did it, but succeeded only in smacking the water with my thighs. |
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Spanking, smacking, whupping, and shaming all break the special role that parents have to protect their offspring. |
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At Rick's side our local Liberal Party Chairman is smacking his yeoman's paws together and rhubarbing ecstatically in Rick's ear. |
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Ruth Ann clenched her hand around the hairbrush and felt like smacking Ashley upside the head with it. She knew better than to talk that way. |
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At a neighbouring table two Germans were making a hearty meal, chumping the meat and smacking their lips in a kind of heavy ecstasy. |
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By extrapolation, the same types of objects were smacking Earth directly about once every millennium. |
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There is something uniquely pathetic about the parent who realises their smacking days are over because their once pliant, now muscular, child rises to height and hits them back. |
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In 2013, in a landmark case, a French court fined a father 500 euros for smacking his bare-bottomed son, on the grounds of violence against children. So far, the French Socialist government seems set against criminalisation. |
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Any smacking of the lips or other undue noise should be avoided. |
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It would be inappropriate to suggest to ordinary parents that they cannot distinguish between smacking and criminal violence, or that one usually leads to the other. |
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You get cheap brownie points for smacking your friends around. |
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When autumn leaves crackled beneath his feet and delicate snowflakes melted on his eyelashes, Benjamin still felt the whomp of the baseball smacking into his glove. |
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