Sentence examples for stop whacking from inspiring English sources

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"When are we going to stop whacking at the Wall Street piñata?" Scaramucci asked Obama.

"When are we going to stop whacking Wall Street like a piñata?" In fact, Mr. Scaramucci had served up a softball question — just not the kind he had intended.

Skinner identified four ways to manipulate behavior: four buttons to push — positive reinforcement ("Good dog! Have a biscuit"), positive punishment ("Bad dog! Whack"), negative reinforcement ("Good dog! Now I'll stop whacking you"), and negative punishment ("Bad dog! Give me back that biscuit").

Skinner identified four ways to manipulate behavior: four buttons to push positive reinforcement ("Good dog! Have a biscuit"), positive punishment ("Bad dog! Whack"), negative reinforcement ("Good dog! Now I'll stop whacking you"), and negative punishment ("Bad dog! Give me back that biscuit").

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So the crisis is partly inter-generational, as you would expect from the Resolution Foundation, whose chair is the ex-universities minister, David "Two Brains" Willetts, who wrote a book called The Pinch about the boomers' failure to do better by the kids, though it didn't stop him whacking up student tuition fees to £9,000.

Nothing happened and the Lions, for the first, but not the last, time that tour yelled 99, the injunction which meant that every player stopped and whacked the ­opponent ­nearest to him, drawing the ­referee's attention but not risking the chance of anyone being dismissed because every player would have to go.

But it seemed to stop conspicuously short of whacking the company's newer 737 MAX 8, which weighs 45,070 kilograms empty.

Of course, this does not stop them from hacking and whacking one another with gleeful abandon during line changes.

It is time to stop playing whack-a-mole.

I like to think about all those times a device stopped working or disconnected from the network, and the idea of whacking it with a hammer.

Whacking off.

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