The raft smacks into the first rapid and baptizes us with an icy blast.
Those who find it all smacks of Big Brother can turn their webcams off.
Coulter's smug rally to become "single-issue voters" smacks of panic she accuses others of experiencing.
However, many companies have codes of conduct that frown against anything that smacks of sexual harassment.
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Instead, it "smacks of a form of social engineering of which Conservatives should be instinctively wary".
The whole bag issue smacks of punishing the grade school class because of two punks.
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But Brazil's diplomats are instinctively suspicious of anything that smacks of foreign intervention in neighbouring countries.
In an election year, congressmen are loth to support anything that smacks of foreign aid.
Greenspan's need to defend himself smacks of worry about his place in history--fiddling while Wall Street burned.
That tobacco settlement smacks of tax farming: Companies collect the money and remit it to the states.
"It smacks of modernity, " said Barbara Brock, a principal at New York-based staging company Sold with Style.
For many voters, this all smacks of Japan's earlier attempt to escape the LDP's shadow, in 1993.
The row is undignified but it also smacks of everyone trying to cover their backs, and fast.
As much as this bizarre tradition smacks of 1950s style domesticity, it dates back to just 1992.
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And it makes the sciences wary of anything that smacks of the spiritual, regardless of evidence of efficacy.
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But don't expect IRS auditors to like these losses, particularly if the venture smacks of a luxury activity.
For some this smacks of laziness but there may also be "quasi-rational" processes at work, Prof Devlin says.
To propose that we superannuate our voting system is a futile gesture, because it smacks of sour grapes.
But the prosecution of Mr Drake and others like him smacks more of vindictiveness and message-sending than justice.
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This is a veiled jab at Mr Romney, whose recent conversion to pro-lifery smacks to many of opportunism.
But that smacks of a pretext: despite alarmist headlines, for now the economy remains in relatively good shape.
He wants the Conservative-run Westminster Council to investigate the circumstances around the appointment, saying it smacks of "ideological favouritism".
Although Sir David says he is not a specialist in waving white flags, all this certainly smacks of desperation.
That smacks of skepticism, and a still-vigorous bull market with room to charge.
Devaluation talk, to some, smacks of desperation when domestic demand is the problem.
We sat there with that familiar sense of security that smacks partly of shipwreck and partly of happiness without desire.
Such a burden, they say, smacks into the Fifth Amendment's safeguards against government seizure of private property without just compensation.
They say Mr Hazare has been elevated from a campaigner to a messiah, and his campaign now smacks of megalomania.
Under the broad consumer-protection laws of states like Washington, lawyers can seek treble damages for anything that smacks of fraud.
To most Portuguese, the shake-up smacks more of a prime minister imposing his authority than of a government in disarray.
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