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slapped

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Past of slap

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The Tory leader's shiny airbrushed cheeks are a target many would like to see slapped.

Europe has not gone as far as the United States, which in October slapped entry bans on six Hungarian government officials for alleged corruption.

Matovič, who is known for getting his face slapped by female politicians and camping out on city squares to protest MP privileges, may now become the deputy speaker of the legislature.

"On the back of this election outcome, this is the time of maximum strength for the prime minister and he needs to be given the backing to use that in the British national interest rather than have his hand slapped".

In his book Hard Times, he catalogues how this meltdown has slapped the poorest in ways that don't make it into public discussion.

One day in 1974 Lady Marion Body's husband, the MP Sir Richard Body, slapped down a book he had just bought.

When Barclays was slapped with a £290m fine for rigging Libor, the lid was raised on the unsavoury culture inside the high-street bank's investment banking arm.

Thus we spray-painted terrible puns onto bed sheets (oh look, another "Declaration of Waugh") and hoisted them in the air as banners, we slapped on our terry toweling hats, we bought the souvenir tour guides and Channel Nine propaganda pamphlets - still walking away with change from a $10 note – and marvelled in the peerless humour of calling Richard Hadlee a wanker all day.

It was approaching 11pm on Monday night by the time Eddie Howe, his back slapped raw with countless congratulations, extricated himself from the delighted throng out on the pitch and emerged into the youth team classroom that doubles up as a media suite at the Goldsands Stadium.

Safarova, seeded No23, broke back in the fourth game and held her own as the two slapped a series of winners.

As Russia squared up to the west over its antics in Ukraine, several central European states expressed opposition to the sanctions the EU slapped on its big eastern adversary.

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