S. The WSJ also takes some well-deserved potshots at the latest fiscal plan in Spain.

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She certainly resents the potshots made by a few family members through intermediaries.

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Tuesday on Twitter, some folks were quick to take potshots at the deal.

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While potshots from the French are unlikely to damage the project, publishers are a constituency that needs to be sold on Google's plans.

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The thinking seems to be: If there's no possibility of compromise, why not just take potshots and try to win the news cycle?

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Clinton never faced sniper bullets in Bosnia, but throughout the campaign she has withstood potshots from Chris Matthews, Maureen Dowd, Arianna Huffington and the snotocrats in her own party.

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As in the first two installments of this most lucrative of animated franchises, many of the jokes are media-wise parodies in particular, potshots at such Disney fairy-tale characters as Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty.

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"It's not unusual now, when there's a tense part of the world where there's conflict happening, for hackers to take matters into their own hands and to take potshots like this, " he said.

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Instead we have talking points and potshots.

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