Sentence examples for serious slap from inspiring English sources

The pensions vote was "the first serious slap in the face that the Swiss government has received on an issue of domestic politics," said Gilles Petitpierre, a former Parliament member.

Brian Hambleton, Maxine's brother, who featured in a BBC documentary on Monday night called Who Murdered Maxine? said it was a "serious slap in the face".

One thing is clear in all this: Facebook is serious about slapping down app developers who go too far in their efforts to grab new users.

It had been a while, so I made a serious effort; slapped on a bit of black eye shadow, put on a white dress… you get the picture.

India's nuclear watchdog, the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board AERBB) in Mumbai, has labeled the incident as a "serious violation" and slapped India's premier university with an indefinite moratorium on radiation-related activities.

The public deserve to feel reassured that their local police forces are not tackling serious crimes with a slap on the wrist," said Vaz.

If the protest has greatly cut that income it is a serious matter, and a slap in the face to those who originally gave support if the protesters can't see that or don't care.

The press council has slapped two serious breaches on the New South Wales regional paper the Northern Star, published by APN News & Media.

But I do feel for him to the extent that the Turner prize unleashes a kind of national hysteria in which perfectly nice, ordinary, serious artists suddenly get slapped about the face with a ferocity that seems astonishing – normally serious critics suddenly start hyperventilating in a most peculiar way.

Thanks to zero-tolerance policies, it's routine for high school students to be slapped with serious charges for what are fundamentally harmless youthful mistakes.

But the ironic wink comes to a halt with the whiskey, which is serious: vibrant with the evanescent slap of corn.