When pitching its new line of chips to investors earlier this year, Intel even went so far as to slap an image of the iPhone onto a slide as an example of the sorts of devices future versions of Atom will power.
And if someone dared to, she could just as easily reach for her wedding cake and slap frosting into their faces as Kim once did to her mother, who in a brilliant twist has the same name as her new husband.
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But Chavez has already rejected Shannon's offers to hold a dialogue, which comes as a slap in the face to the State Department.
What Khuzami needed to do was do a better job of justifying the policy to Congress and a public that often saw these settlements as a slap on the wrist.
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But Mexican players saw it as a slap in the face since the result seemed out of reach, and pitcher Arnold Leon then hit Canada's next batter, Rene Tosoni, on his upper back.
As some media outlets have pointed out, perhaps just to stir the pot, the foreign press association's decision to book Fey and Poehler could be seen as a slap in the face of the Academy for choosing to announce Oscar nominations on January 10, before the Golden Globes.
Outside court Mr Bennett's solicitor, Robin Tilbrook, described the High Court ruling as a "slap in the face".
"He took it as a huge slap in the face, " Ms. Rampage recalls.
In a 2001 interview with the BBC, after she had won the WHSmith Book Award for fiction, Binchy described the five rejections she received for her first novel as "a slap in the face".
It also puts at risk its reputation with the vast majority of all players and its customer base who would most likely view a slap on the vocal chords as tacit tolerance for an abhorrent principle.
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If Mr Asmussen reflects the view of the ECB board as a whole, his response is a slap in the face to Greece and a rebuff to the IMF as well.
We hear you said, "The last thing you want to do for a shared use computer is have it be something without a disk ... and with a tiny little screen, " and went on to slap it on using a crank as a power source where there's no electricity.
There was the distinct wet slap of a pipistrelle's echolocation as it flew unseen among the nearby trees.
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Candelon should have grabbed his second try after outstripping the defence down the left, but Lamont did brilliantly to slap the ball out of his hands as the wing stepped inside.
MPs keeping the gamebird-shooting season as long as possible, felt like a slap in the face too many.
As the German city of Colberg, it was slap bang on the invasion route for a number of armies, including Napoleon's.
David Clohessy, director of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP), described Gomez's decision as unprecedented, but it amounts to a mere slap on the wrist long after the fact.
Supermarkets passing store produce off as a farmers' market is "a real slap in the face, " said Dale Schultz, who has been selling the tomatoes, onions and squash he grows on his farm in Gig Harbor, Wash.
Some analysts have suggested that the Obama administration, which is widely viewed as being anti-oil, could move so far as to require BP to jettison its U.S. assets or to slap the oil giant with a crippling fine.
This improved clear-up rate, he says, but effectively created crime, where the behaviour - such as someone riding a bike on the pavement - might previously have been dealt with by a slap on the wrist.
Worse, it didn't own up to the spending, resulting in a slap, in the fall of 2000, from the Ontario Securities Commission, which told Pearl to expense costs as they were incurred, instead of recording them at the conclusion of a case.
In recent weeks, as Moody's has neared its decisions, big banks have been lobbying the ratings agency not to slap them with multi-notch downgrades, according to people familiar with the matter.
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