She slapped her thighs, cursed herself and, occasionally, burst into tears in the middle of a match.

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She slapped her right thigh with her glove as the yellow softball rocketed toward a teammate catching the ball, which is bad news for the opposition in China.

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She claimed Mr Gorman later slapped her across the face and warned her not to speak to police about the murder of Mark Short.

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And she has sometimes slapped down ministers from her own party who have refused to toe the government line.

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She slapped me lightly on the arm with her book.

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One man grabbed her scarf and hand, she says, and she slapped him.

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She told the BBC she ought to have slapped the defence barrister Courtenay Griffiths, who cross examined her very intensively.

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Then her singing career hit a bump in the road when she was slapped with a cease-and-desist order.

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I've prosecuted a woman who shot her husband and killed him because he slapped her, and we argued that was not deadly force and she was convicted and sent to state prison.

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