Slap on the wrist for Singapore Some analysts have viewed the impounding of these troop carriers as a slap on the wrist for Singapore over its tough stance on the South China Sea.
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And he was just given a slap on the wrist.
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Yesterday the press got a shocking slap on the wrist.
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This is a diplomatic slap on the wrist for Putin.
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"It seems like a slap on the wrist," Jonathan says.
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So this is more like a slap on the wrist.
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It's the kind of slap on the wrist people get for
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Maza said the action was essentially a slap on the wrist.
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Hey man, get a slap on the wrist, no jail time.
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To deliver justice or give someone a slap on the wrist.
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"It's a slap on the wrist obviously: twelve years," Lopez lamented.
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Fern: Sometimes they do it as a slap on the wrist.
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That's not a slap on the wrist; it's a gentle tap.
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It wasn&apost like they just got a slap on the wrist.
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Compared to McFarland's sentence, it seemed like a slap on the wrist.
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" Republican Congressman David Cicilline called the settlement "a slap on the wrist.
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Instead, the officer primarily responsible only received a slap on the wrist.
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He received a slap-on-the-wrist sentence of probation and a fine.
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Younes Bendjima deserves either my congratulations or a major slap on the wrist.
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But environmentalists were displeased, seeing the fine as a slap on the wrist.
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It was widely seen as a slap on the wrist by Chinese authorities.
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It appears that back then Michael simply got a slap on the wrist.
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This new host went even further and got a slap on the wrist.
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"They don't even really get a slap on the wrist," she told me.
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The Federal Reserve found out but only issued a slap on the wrist.
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"A slap on the wrist is not going to deter anybody," he said.
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" Mr. Edmonds said the company received "not even a slap on the wrist.
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They get a slap on the wrist and are allowed to retroactively register themselves.
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And until now, U.S. Soccer has given her behavior a slap on the wrist.
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The federal system is not where you go for a slap on the wrist.
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The National Wildlife Federation blasted the settlement, calling it a slap on the wrist.
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In practical terms, a ruling against Whitaker would be a slap on the wrist.
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Child advocates say the religious court's judgment was a mere slap on the wrist.
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That a slap on the wrist is as good as a gun at your head.
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I&aposm joking, but it&aposs a minor, minor slap on the wrist, Twitter jail.
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The teacher got a slap on the wrist, though she freely admitted to her words.
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" The San Jose Mercury News called the six-month sentence, "a slap on the wrist.
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One reader calls the settlement a "slap on the wrist" for misuse of donated funds.
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These punishments are a slap on the wrist for the Trumps' malfeasance, not real justice.
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But in most cases, these measures are perfunctory, amounting to a slap on the wrist.
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But around that age, you usually get one second chance after a slap on the wrist.
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It's a metaphorical slap on the wrist, but one that encourages Zoey to step it up.
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In other words, where Mattie may get a slap on the wrist, Yasmine will get jailed.
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"There needs to be more than just a slap on the wrist," Douglas told Global News.
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Bottom line, Conor's rich as hell ... so a fine is barely a slap on the wrist.
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The other man was given a slap on the wrist, his privileges revoked for 30 days.
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Watch, they will get off with a slap on the wrist, and a few million each.
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Investors concluded that regulators would, at most, give the company a hard slap on the wrist.
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Athletic director Ian McCaw was given a slap on the wrist, but still has a job.
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Despite U.S. Soccer's slap on the wrist, Rapinoe has no plans of backing down, she said.
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Tonight, we learned that's how Wall Street sees it too - as a slap on the wrist.
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But giving wealthy offenders a mere slap on the wrist makes a mockery of that objective.
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Critics called it a slap on the wrist, certainly not painful enough to force real change.
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National Park Service spokesman Thomas Crosson said violators would likely get a slap on the wrist.
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"People basically get a slap on the wrist" for trafficking pangolin under current regulations, Knights told me.
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One could argue that CHF 20,000 (approximately $19,500 U.S. dollars) is a mere slap on the wrist.
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But the priciest lawyers that money could buy,Got him off with a slap on the wrist.
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Thankfully, all that happens next is a jotting down of names and a slap on the wrist.
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Clearly, Maher done fucked up and shit like this cannot just get a slap on the wrist.
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Instead, he was given an effective slap on the wrist by a small fraction of Republican lawmakers.
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But fundamentally this was little but a symbolic slap on the wrist, quickly undone by presidential veto.
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It's also possible that tech firms get away with a slap on the wrist — such as large fines.
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She ended up with life-threatening injuries — and Blaine got a slap on the wrist from the law.
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"It's a slap in the face for us and a slap on the wrist for him," he said.
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" She described the FCC's action as "less a slap on the wrist" than "a pat on the back.
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However many called the fines a modest slap on the wrist --CNBC's Josh Lipton contributed to this story.
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Which goes some way toward explaining why he has received little more than a slap on the wrist.
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" And as a first-timer, this warrants a mere slap on the wrist and a "stern talking-to.
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Why Facebook's stock jumped despite facing a record-breaking $5 billion FTC penalty: 'A slap on the wrist'
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The public expects that officers will be appropriately punished and not simply given a slap on the wrist.
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"This is a slap on the wrist--a fraction of the profits Facebook makes in a year," Sen.
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Otis says he'll face the music, but the crime carries way more than a slap on the wrist.
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Thumbing one's nose at a grand jury subpoena does not lead to a figurative slap on the wrist.
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I think it's absolutely obvious, and giving a slap on the wrist doesn't do any good,' said Sen.
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It's going to take a while + we're not going 2 have a little slap on the wrist crap.
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For Amazon, the size of the tax payment still would amount to essentially a slap on the wrist.
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" "A fine in the low billions of dollars would amount to a slap on the wrist for Facebook.
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It's the maximum amount possible under law, but given Facebook's size it's just a slap on the wrist.
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Early in 2013, the FTC closed a long-running investigation of Google, giving it a slap on the wrist.
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It just means that paying a slap-on-the-wrist fine is easier than months or years of litigation.
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Some of the women arrested for removing their headscarves have been let off with a slap on the wrist.
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"I feel like he got just a slap on the wrist," the victim's mother told the AJC on Thursday.
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But many have characterized it as essentially a slap on the wrist for Zuckerberg and his social-media company.
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The question now becomes whether the fine, if and when it hits, is just a slap on the wrist.
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That Piper's slap on the wrist occurs in the same episode as Maritza's ultimate punishment is pointed, I think.
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In 2014, Russia violated international agreements by annexing Crimea with barely a slap on the wrist from the West.
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The resolution amounts to a legal slap on the wrist for Trump, who is certain to veto the resolution.
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A fine would probably amount to a slap on the wrist for Musk, who is worth about $20 billion.
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Whether Apple winning would lessen that, or just be a slap on the wrist is too early to tell.
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Responses can vary significantly after employees violate the rule, from a slap on the wrist to loss of a job.
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They warrant more than a surface-level investigation and a punishment that goes beyond just a slap on the wrist.
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At first they allowed him to remain on campus, but on probation, which was basically a slap on the wrist.
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Almost any fine against the company would be a slap on the wrist, April Glaser argues — unless regulators get creative.
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But, once again, it appears these actions will amount to little more than a slap on the wrist for Facebook.
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A Baylor investigation didn't even give Mr. Ukwuachu a slap on the wrist, allowing him back on campus to graduate.
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Her words were used to make sure "no future Brock Turners get a slap on the wrist," said Ms. Kianerci.
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The cable outlet gave Hannity a slap on the wrist in 2016 after he appeared in a Trump campaign video.
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He spent years living down the Keating Five scandal, even though he got off with a slap on the wrist.
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No other president has been censured, so many Republicans view that path as more than a slap on the wrist.
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And, of course in the U.S., he had that whole steel dolly incident -- but essentially got a slap on the wrist.
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And aside from some bullshit Congressional hearings to deliver a slap on the wrist, Equifax has so far largely gone unpunished.
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Several Democrats in Congress on Wednesday said a $5 billion fine would amount to a "slap on the wrist" for Facebook.
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Instead of getting mad about her seemingly light slap on the wrist, I'd urge you to consider the bigger picture here.
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Chinese phone and mobile equipment maker ZTE just received a stinging slap on the wrist from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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There wasn't much I could do except get a slap on the wrist and take a charge on my account. What?
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Demonetization feels like a slap on the wrist in this case, they should at least be taking down the relevant videos.
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It is a mere "sense of the Congress" resolution –a virtual slap on the wrist to embarrass a president at most.
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This practice is a gross distortion of justice which can no longer be punished with a mere slap on the wrist.
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Major League Baseball investigated and confirmed the Yankees accusations, but let the Red Sox off with a slap on the wrist.
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And, with Gordon's history of failed drug tests during his NFL career, this won't be a slap on the wrist punishment.
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"Thirteen years of incarceration - up to the point of approaching death - is not a slap on the wrist," Caproni wrote last month.
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Brock Allen Turner was found guilty of three felonies and he got a slap on the wrist -- just six months in jail.
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David Cicilline (D-RI) referred to it as a "slap on the wrist" for a company with $55 billion in yearly revenue.
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Maybe they'll get a fine and a slap on the wrist, but as long as they're making enough money, it's worth it.
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Klitschko said that rather than give those who dope a slap on the wrist, they should be hit with a lifetime ban.
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Prior to the sentencing, local activists expressed concern that Van Dyke would be given a "slap on the wrist" by the judge.
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What happens if Bach sides with clean athletes, the real victims here, and gives Russia more than a slap on the wrist?
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Under most circumstances, in most places, such behavior might provoke a slap on the wrist — perhaps a stern visit from the police.
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Some advocacy groups have said that the fines are only a slap on the wrist and the company deserves much harsher penalties.
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It's safe to say that 20 years ago, the London bond trader would likely have received the mildest slap on the wrist.
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The FTC conducted an investigation of Google that ended in 2013 with a slap on the wrist for the search and advertising company.
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Critics attacked the deal, which allowed HSBC to avoid indictment, as a slap on the wrist for one of the world's biggest banks.
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The Huskies received a slap on the wrist from the N.C.A.A. after arranging for Moore a tour of ESPN's studios in Bristol, Conn.
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The FTC did an investigation of Google that ended in 2013 with a slap on the wrist for the search and advertising company.
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And the department continues to impose slap-on-the-wrist discipline for misconduct — a practice that we proved significantly contributed to discriminatory stops.
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If you're a problematic user, you may be referred to treatment, or maybe get a slap on the wrist and pay 70 euros.
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"It's basically a slap on the wrist," Phil Robertson, deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Asia division, said of the men's prison sentences.
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Many lawmakers and privacy advocates decried the fine as a slap on the wrist for a credit reporting agency worth nearly $18 billion.
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UConn did receive a slap on the wrist from the N.C.A.A. for arranging a tour for Moore of ESPN's studios in Bristol, Conn.
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Our thought bubble: These fines are a slap on the wrist for Facebook, a company that makes roughly $27 billion annually in revenue.
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Last month, I said that a fine in the low billions of dollars would amount to a slap on the wrist for Facebook.
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The culture doesn't always work out because some people face long-term cancellation while others face a short-term slap on the wrist.
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But if we've learned anything over the past year, it's that a slap on the wrist does little to change a company's culture.
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Nevertheless, gender roles remain deeply entrenched and penalties for breaking the law can amount to nothing more than a slap on the wrist.
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Since returning from what many critics perceived to be a slap on the wrist, Allen has battled heckling, injuries and a shooting slump.
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Its hubris, and the reason Travis Kalanick got a personal slap on the wrist from Tim Cook, was trying to disguise it from Apple.
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In short, don't expect President Trump to get a slap on the wrist or any other kind of slap from the courts over this.
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Handing out punishments piecemeal was a clearly untenable position, because every slap on the wrist simply highlighted how feckless that approach was in practice.
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"If there are grounds for doing anything, it will turn out mostly to be a fine or a slap on the wrist," said Yardeni.
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The $5 billion fine is merely a slap on the wrist for a giant with a parent company that holds $102.9 billion in cash.
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A missed payment fee is a stinging slap on the wrist and may be another indication that you're not ready for a credit card.
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BTW, he signed a 4-year contract with the team last year for $3.9 million ... so this is like a slap on the wrist.
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President Clinton lied under oath and was given a slap on the wrist, while Martha Stewart lied to federal investigators and went to jail.
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"The upshot is that today's tariffs amount to no more than a slap on the wrist for China," Mr. Williams wrote in a note.
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"They were suspended from the fraternity but they were not reprimanded by the school, so it was a slap on the wrist," he said.
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As a result, behavior that would merit no more than a slap on the wrist for a US citizen could mean deportation for an immigrant.
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The judge who sentenced Bergdahl gave him a slap on the wrist and gave a slap in the face to our military men and women.
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The fine, which some lawmakers have called "a slap on the wrist," cut quarterly profit to $2.6 billion, compared with $5.1 billion, a year earlier.
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While the settlement might feel significant, experts have criticized it as a slap on the wrist that won't change how business is done at Facebook.
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Donald Trump's business practices led to a long list of slap-on-the-wrist fines, while youthful drug dealers or car thieves sit in jail.
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While her conviction is troubling, he or she should have the power to either commute Fairooz's sentence or give her a slap on the wrist.
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It seems Huffman will get a slap on the wrist here, which might not convince Reddit's users that the company itself takes his misconduct seriously.
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The Federal Trade Commission's reported deal to settle its investigation into Facebook's alleged privacy violations looks like little more than a slap on the wrist.
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Our laws too often treat employer crimes with a light touch, levying only minimal penalties amounting to little more than a slap on the wrist.
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Even the modest attempts of the Congress to impose sanctions, which really amounted to a slap on the wrist, have been ignored by our president.
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But according to CNN, these "slap on the wrist" types of punishments — and as a result, unreported rapes — are much more common than we think.
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The decision to keep him within the company infuriated many Riot employees, with one describing the move to Kotaku as a light slap on the wrist.
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In both instances though, the fines were no more than 150 RMB or $21.65, a mere slap on the wrist for anyone wealthy enough to participate.
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The fine, which some lawmakers have called "a slap on the wrist," cut second-quarter profit to $2.6 billion, compared with $5.1 billion, a year earlier.
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VICE has routinely (rightfully) admonished keto for some time, and now it finally seems, with this third slap on the wrist, many others are catching on.
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The $1.25 million fine is a slap on the wrist for Robinhood, which caters to Millennials and new investors and is valued at nearly $9 billion.
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Yet though a four-year ban sounds like a bruising punishment, it contains so many caveats that it is more like a slap on the wrist.
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But a handful of Republicans are expressing skepticism at Trump's move — and some reactions have carried more consequence than the usual toothless slap on the wrist.
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"A slap on the wrist from the FTC won't do the job, so under my bill he'd face jail time for lying to the government," Wyden said.
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Unfortunately, for a subculture that exists in the backwaters of the internet, a slap on the wrist from one giant corporation isn't enough to slow their agenda.
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A bill was passed that eased punishments for medical marijuana growers; they now face slap-on-the-wrist fines rather than jail time for growing-related violations.
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Whoever thought it was a smart idea to put it right next to the back camera should get a slap on the wrist because it's just terrible.
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I offered myself as their poster-child—"Illegal Restaurant Goes Legit"—but they didn't buy it, and gave us a verbal slap on the wrist warning instead.
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" In an editorial, The San Jose Mercury News called the sentence "a slap on the wrist" and "a setback for the movement to take campus rape seriously.
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Romero understandably got the stronger slap on the wrist, with a six-game suspension with the national team, and Ceren walked away with a three-game suspension.
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The punishment will no doubt feel like a slap on the wrist for the company, since it only amounts to nearly 4% of their 2018 net profit.
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The actor even got a slap on the wrist from a nurse for cheering too loudly for the Patriots in his hospital room a few weeks ago.
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Putin's regime got a slap on the wrist — a few sanctions — but nothing remotely as damaging to him as his intervention in our elections was to us.
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YouTube's critics reacted to the fine with dismay, seeing it as a slap on the wrist compared to the significant privacy violations that had been alleged. Sen.
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Ex-NFL star Fred Smoot just got a slap on the wrist despite being arrested by a BUNCH of cops back in October ... TMZ Sports has learned.
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Until about two years ago, violators of the statute, known as the Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA, typically received only an administrative slap on the wrist.
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Schumer, during a Senate floor speech, warned that agreeing to the deal would be a "slap on the wrist" for China and a "great defeat" for Trump.
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"We can't say anything about that if we allow Saudi Arabia to do it and all we do is a diplomatic slap on the wrist," Rubio said.
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And even if Google is penalized by the NLRB, it might not amount to more than a slap on the wrist, according to several labor law experts.
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But allowing them to remain active clearly undermined whatever potential usefulness might have been gained by banning Jones, reducing the move to a slap on the wrist.
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While that appears to be a minor slap on the wrist, Bartling is in further trouble for a video in which he showed his cats fighting a scorpion.
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In the rare instance that Twitter has taken action, it has only required the reported user to delete the offensive tweets, essentially delivering a slap on the wrist.
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But in the real world, it's thought the link tax would be a slap on the wrist for major players and a death sentence for the small fry.
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" As a candidate, Trump accused the Obama White House of giving "drug dealers and gang members" a "slap on the wrist" and turning them "loose on the street.
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"Epstein's victims deserve justice and the public needs to know why a prolific child molester got a slap on the wrist instead of a long prison sentence," Rep.
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It is troubling to think that someone who commits such a reckless crime, putting so many people at risk, walks away with just a slap on the wrist.
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Prosecutors gave Rice a slap on the wrist, and the NFL gave him a measly 2-game suspension, which it later increased after a torrent of public criticism.
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Vasquez only got a slap on the wrist from prosecutors -- he was only ordered to complete anger management (which he did) and his case has since been dismissed.
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Even most yellow cards, or "cautions" (a notionally stern warning that the player is getting out of line) amount to little more than a slap on the wrist.
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To make matters worse for the South Koreans looking to just chill out for a bit, cannabis offenses aren't just a slap on the wrist in South Korea.
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"If there are other women like [Doe]," Warrier says, "will they use the system where they know [their abuser] is likely to get a slap on the wrist?"
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Not in this economy, but can he really afford to just let them get away with a slap on the wrist for what Frank Jr. did to Ruth?
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Failing that, the company simply paid slap-on-the-wrist fines and continued as normal or petulantly left cities rather than comply with laws designed to regulate it.
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"These imposed fines are even less impactful than a slap on the wrist for Uber and Grab," Corrine Png, CEO of transport research consultancy Crucial Perspective, told CNBC.
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"If he didn't actually lie to anybody … it's a slap on the wrist," says Steve Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas who studies national security law.
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Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Rosen urged Zobel to avoid giving Vandemoer a "slap on the wrist," saying the case had undermined public confidence in the fairness of college admissions.
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Mr Orban changed the judicial system to cement his power over judges in 2018, and got away with a mere slap on the wrist from the rest of Europe.
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The $5 billion FTC fine is a slap on the wrist for a company that profits more than that per quarter, but a break-up would do real damage.
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Kim Kardashian wants the notorious celeb attacker who went after her ass to get more than a slap on the wrist -- so she's calling in lawyers and the police.
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TWITTER GIVES FARRAKHAN SLAP ON THE WRIST AFTER POSTING ANTI-SEMITIC &aposSATANIC JEW&apos VIDEO According to Facebook&aposs policy regarding hate speech , objectionable content falls into three tiers.
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We might never know why Eric H. Holder Jr., the former attorney general, chose to let Wall Street off the hook with just a proverbial slap on the wrist.
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Dorial Green-Beckham pled guilty in his weed case Friday ... but he reportedly got off with a slap on the wrist -- with a judge sentencing him to just probation.
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When he later branched out into casinos, he got caught accepting an illegal loan from his father to stay afloat and got off with a slap on the wrist.
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"A fine in the low billions of dollars would amount to a slap on the wrist for Facebook," Representative David Cicilline, Democrat of Rhode Island, said at the time.
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It was a record-breaking penalty for the FTC, but was criticized by some as a slap on the wrist that would not materially affect how Facebook does business.
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Or a world where the Women's March can tweet out support for a platform for human traffickers without so much as a slap on the wrist from the press.
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That may help explain his use of chemical weapons in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in early April, which prompted the Trump administration's slap-on-the-wrist missile strike.
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The FTC recently fined Facebook a record $5 billion for privacy abuses linked to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a measure many Democrats denounced as a slap on the wrist.
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When predators are accepted back into their professional spheres with little more than a slap on the wrist, perfunctory chastisement, it imposes a compromise on everyone they work with.
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Friday's decision to cut Paul's videos off from ad revenue seems to be evidence of this new policy in action, with a public slap on the wrist for good measure.
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Nashville Predators forward Austin Watson just got a slap on the wrist in his domestic violence case -- after admitting to roughing up his baby mama at a Tennessee gas station.
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As a result of New York's investigation, Uber will pay a $20,000 fine, which amounts to less than a slap on the wrist for a company with Uber's soaring valuation.
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It is difficult not to come away with the impression that the settlements were little more than a slap on the wrist, and perhaps less than that for Mr. Mudd.
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The Chinese might have stomached a slap on the wrist, but by banning American companies from selling parts to ZTE, Ross served up a punishment harsh enough to halt operations.
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Several Riot employees told Kotaku that they were frustrated by Riot's decision not to remove Gelb from the company — one person described the punishment as "a slap on the wrist."
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Censure could be seen as a slap on the wrist, and a failure of their leadership to prove what they and their constituencies believe have been abuses of the presidency.
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The slap on the wrist for the Episcopals appeared to satisfy no one, with gay and lesbian Anglicans expressing outrage while conservatives said the sanctions did not go far enough.
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And deeper pockets make it harder to impose meaningful penalties that might deter repeat and future offenders (see: the Federal Trade Commission's $20203 billion slap on the wrist of Facebook).
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But the cab drivers note that for a company like Uber, valued at more than $60 billion by some estimates, the fines were less than a slap on the wrist.
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While the football player gets barely a slap on the wrist, Jessica still admits she feels "stronger" for sharing her story and looks as if an insurmountable albatross has been lifted.
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To Facebook, this is a slap on the wristThe FTC settlement, at least as it is described in numerous reports, will amount to little more than a slap on the wrist.
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Alexandra Naga, a senior organizer with the group Food & Water Watch, which has been campaigning to shut the site, called the fine "barely a slap on the wrist" for the company.
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"My sense is that we are talking about something more substantial than a slap on the wrist, and also that's why this has been going on for so long," he said.
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As in the Church, universities protect perpetrators with slap-on-the-wrist punishment and secrecy, while victims are left alone to try to put their academic careers and lives back together.
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But in reality, the penalty is a slap on the wrist for TeamHealth, which recently was taken private by Blackstone and was on pace for $4.5 billion of revenue in 2016.
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This is far from the first time the FTC has been accused of letting tech giants get away with violating laws and receiving nothing more than a slap on the wrist.
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Some also say it underscores a troubling flaw in the Canadian justice system, which often allows white-collar criminals to walk away with little more than a slap on the wrist.
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The latter earned him a slap on the wrist, a five-game suspension for the coming season, while the transgressions were written off as the contrivance and failings of an underling.
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But critics of the settlement, including Senator Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, described the $20113 million penalty as a slap on the wrist for one of the world's richest companies.
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Chris Johnson is breathing easier today ... TMZ Sports has learned the ex-NFL superstar only got a slap on the wrist after he was accused of choking a valet last year.
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The company was fined $1 million after the scandal became public, a sanction that critics said was a slap on the wrist for a company with annual revenues of $17 billion.
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AppZen then figures out if it's worth a nudge (like an email), a slap on the wrist (like telling the employee to pay), or worth escalating higher if it's a continuing issue.
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As soon as news of the settlement broke, Democrats put out scathing statements, calling the deal anything from a "joke" to a "slap on the wrist" for such overwhelming allegations of abuse.
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This basically amounts to a slap on the wrist for the company, which previously instituted a program called "the Macro" that helped it skirt regulatory requirements in order to grow more quickly.
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The IOC could have shown, with fist-pounding clarity and once and for all, that widespread fraud will be treated with more than a stern warning and a slap on the wrist.
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And it was Obama who refused to reinstate Glass-Steagall and instead signed the Dodd-Frank financial reform law, which was little more than a slap on the wrist of Wall Street.
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Critics worry that Facebook, despite front-page privacy violations and scandals, will eventually receive a slap on the wrist in the United States without substantive changes to its business practices (The Hill).
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My intuition is that Trump ultimately is going to be less referee and more International Olympic Committee anti-doping commission: lots of rhetoric, but a slap on the wrist in the end.
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This is certainly a step in the right direction, but I'll be watching to make sure the FCC doesn't just let these lawbreakers off the hook with a slap on the wrist.
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In after-hours trading on Wednesday, Facebook's stock price shot up more than 8%, signaling that investors consider the estimated fine to be a slap on the wrist that could've been far worse.
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That's why I know that a life sentence is not a slap on the wrist, not for the person behind those bars, not for the people who love him despite his dark deeds.
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"If he didn't actually lie to anybody … it's a slap on the wrist," Steve Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas who studies national security law, told me back in April.
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Repeatedly over the past three decades, Pakistan-based jihadist groups have struck targets in India, and repeatedly Pakistan has done little more to punish them than give a light slap on the wrist.
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Trump has signaled that the young crown prince has a free hand at home to imprison and execute and can continue his overseas adventurism with no more than a slap on the wrist.
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Despite Washington's recent aid cuts to Egypt, which came as a slap on the wrist after Egypt's bilateral relations with North Korea were exposed, that view is widely shared in the international community.
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It escaped with just a $5 billion fine as part of its FTC settlement that some consider a slap on the wrist, especially since it won't have to significantly alter its business model.
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"Fifty cents a day for middle-class families is a slap on the wrist," said Maria Arias Evans, the principal of Washington Elementary School in San Jose, which is behind the Biblioteca Latinoamericana.
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The result is little more than a slap on the wrist when compared with the severity of the original charges that could have resulted in a prison term of more than eight years.
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While many believe the sum is simply a slap on the wrist for a behemoth like Facebook, it's still the largest amount the Federal Trade Commission has ever levied on a technology company.
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By doing so, the editorial board lets Mr. Trump off the hook for what he actually said, and instead gives him a slap on the wrist, admonishing him for idolizing the world's dictators.
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Representative David Cicilline, Democrat of Rhode Island, said that "a fine in the low billions of dollars would amount to a slap on the wrist for Facebook" and that Congress needed to act.
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It is documented publicly that Harvey had several NDA's hiding his past sexual assaults; whose only spanking was to take a slap on the wrist and pay a fine each and every time.
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"This is publicly known that it took so many resources away from Chicago's police department that, how are you going to justify it with giving him a slap on the wrist?" he said.
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NHL legend Ed Belfour pled guilty to being a drunken mess during last month's incident at a Kentucky hotel ... but the ex-goalie got nothing more than a slap on the wrist as punishment.
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In 2011, Mitchell was criticized over what the Phoenix New Times newspaper called a "slap-on-the-wrist" plea deal for an elder in the Jehovah's Witness church who had abused a Phoenix teenager.
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Without firm action with real consequences for Russia, Moscow will once again receive from the West the dangerous message that whatever it does, the worst it can expect is a slap on the wrist.
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The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has fined the company about $150,000 for multiple violations since 2009, but that amounts to a light slap on the wrist for a multi-million dollar energy company.
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ELSEWHERE ➔ Tech: Lawmakers and tech industry critics are frustrated that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reached a proposed $5 billion settlement with Facebook over its data practices, calling it a slap on the wrist.
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"This is yet another instance of a white athlete receiving a slap on the wrist for a violent sexual crime, following on the heels of the Brock Turner case in California," the petition said.
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The real crime here is that many of the most egregious actions of corporations like Purdue are legal—and even those that aren't rarely get punished by more than a slap on the wrist.
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Their admission, however, made it virtually certain that the Red Sox would be punished in some way, but, in the end, the Yankees did not get off without a slap on the wrist, either.
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But on Friday, critics within the FCC accused Pai of failing to swiftly bring its probe to a close — and for letting the carriers off with little more than a slap on the wrist.
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State officials fined the company $85033,000 in January — a slap on the wrist that pales in comparison to the damage caused and will do little to encourage better behavior by this billion-dollar corporation.
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As young people gear up to make their voices heard, these universities and colleges are making it clear that a slap on the wrist from school officials should be the least of their worries.
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" He said perpetrators who are tied to gangs in the West and South sides of the city have shot, and will continue to shoot, others "because they continue to get a slap on the wrist.
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"I think this is the best possible outcome for everyone involved" said Ivan Feinseth of Tigress Financial Partners, who rates Tesla "neutral" and who called the SEC's penalty "a slap on the wrist" for Musk.
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William Calloway, who was crucial in the release of the dashcam footage, said the sentence felt like "a slap in the face to us and a slap on the wrist" for the officer, AP reported.
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Labor Secretary Alex Acosta will leave office next week following brutal coverage of his role in letting accused rapist Jeffrey Epstein off with a slap on the wrist, President Trump announced Friday morning.
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General Motors' Cadillac is also working to keep humans in the driving loop — even if it requires an occasional slap on the wrist, via the driver-monitoring system developed by an Australian company, Seeing Machines.
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When she stands before the Council and reads from the Bible, she expects that at best she'll convince them to allow women to read again, and at worst she'll get a slap on the wrist.
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However, with no clear actions taken regarding enforcement, the statement just acts as a proverbial slap on the wrist and provides no clear indication of the where the line is drawn for future token sales.
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Letting these creeps go with a slap on the wrist has wide reverberations and creates a climate that just isn't fucking safe for comedians, and especially comedians who are women - but also comedy club staff.
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An opinion by the Judicial Council of the Third Circuit said Judge Kozinski exhibited "poor judgment" that "resulted in embarrassment to the institution of the federal judiciary" — the equivalent of a slap on the wrist.
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What's next: WADA can either give Russia a slap on the wrist and allow the country's reinstatement to remain, or it can declare Russia noncompliant — which could result in its athletes being banned from international competition.
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Given that the corporation had more than $2737 billion in revenue in 2870alone, even a fine in the low billions of dollars will amount to a slap on the wrist, a mere cost of doing business.
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The strongest populist argument is about double standards: it is wrong to let the rich get away with a slap on the wrist while poor youths are put in prison for possessing an ounce of cocaine.
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The consensus: the FTC gave the company a slap on the wrist, and Facebook's latest earnings report showed the social network earning three times as much in revenue as the FTC fine in just three months.
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But days later, the SEC reverted to nearly the same settlement Musk had turned down, with a slap-on-the-wrist fine, a little adult supervision from the board, and prescribed monitoring of his tweets (seriously).
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Typically, punishment for letting an errant "damn" slip out merited nothing more than a slap on the wrist and a removal of one's argument from the Record (Burke had called Blanton a "damn liar," after all).
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If Alex had froliced naked at Lord's, or the Oval, he would most likely have elicited a few drunken cheers, then been led off by a conspicuously amused policeman and given a halfhearted slap on the wrist.
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After his return two weeks later, my colleague Julia Alexander spoke to some streamers and pointed out that the short length of his ban was a slap on the wrist, something that might embolden other bad actors.
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Jackie Warner, who starred in a Bravo fitness show, struck an amazing plea bargain which amounts to a slap on the wrist compared to the punishment she could have received for driving drunk and attacking a cop.
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But, as Ingold is quick to remind me, this isn't a "hard game"—the penalty for these fainting spells are light, and are intended more as a slap on the wrist than a bloody "game over" screen.
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He got a relative slap on the wrist from a league that still barely has a clue on how to handle domestic violence; you got to fill a hole in your defensive line on the relative cheap.
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Often, the long, painful process of reporting a sexual assault leads to nothing more than an invasion of the alleged victim's privacy, a possible triggering of traumatic memories, and a slap on the wrist for the accused.
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The guilty plea by the former deputy chief, Michael J. Harrington, amounted to an admission of administrative wrongdoing, a slap on the wrist compared with the quid pro quo corruption charges that federal prosecutors had originally delivered.
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But Brock Turner apparently didn't learn that life lesson, and with friends and family reinforcing him like this—not to mention a slap on the wrist from Judge Persky—you have to wonder if he ever will.
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"They propose a scare-you-to-death fine, you talk to them, and then they give you a slap-on-the-wrist fine and go on their way," Peter Sachs, a Connecticut-based drone attorney told me.
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Given that the corporation had more than $55 billion in revenue in 2018 alone, even a fine in the low billions of dollars will amount to a slap on the wrist, a mere cost of doing business.
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In every case, Bloomberg has received criticism, and in some cases, social media companies have hit the candidate with a slap on the wrist for these tactics that blur the lines between spam, misinformation, and clear advertising.
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The laws governing how tech companies use the information are weak, particularly in the U.S., and enforcement often amounts to a slap on the wrist, with fines that are tiny compared with the tech giants' overall revenues.
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PARIS — A French farmer who smuggled African migrants to safety, defying the authorities in an effort that his supporters likened to the Underground Railroad, was essentially given a slap on the wrist by a court on Friday.
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Jim Himes (D-Conn.) described the Obama administration's response to Russian meddling as "barely a slap on the wrist," while President Trump tweeted on Friday asking why Obama did not work harder to stop Russian election meddling.
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That complaint could lead to penalties that range from a slap on the wrist to removal from the state bar, a spokesman for the New York State Unified Court System, Lucian Chalfen, told the New York Times.
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Thanks to a huge loophole, Verizon has so far barely gotten a slap on the wrist for its "supercookie" program, which has allowed the telecom giant to track and monetize its paying customers' web browsing habits without consent.
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Facebook took down the app and closed the program, but not before Apple gave it a slap on the wrist by revoking its enterprise certificates and causing a disruption of the company's ability to use internal iOS software.
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In his CNBC interview Thursday, Blumenthal called a $5 billion penalty "barely a tap, not even a slap on the wrist" and called for "structural remedies that protect privacy and consumers" in addition to "antitrust scrutiny" for Facebook.
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Several popular actors, actresses and athletes, who wield considerable influence through social media platforms, were given a relative slap on the wrist last week after being caught in a raid on an illegal party, local news outlets reported.
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The $572 million in damages that an Oklahoma judge ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay on Monday for its role in the state's opioid crisis will most likely feel like a slap on the wrist for the major conglomerate.
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Authoritarian leaders who once feared backlash from Washington if they went after American reporters now seem to be under the impression that they may get only a slap on the wrist — or even a nod and a wink.
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Not to be gloomy, but that feels like an inevitability; companies with lots of money generally can do whatever they want, like buy private health data, or leak information with little more than a slap on the wrist.
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With a slap on the wrist -- a three-game suspension for Meyer -- and a pathetic press conference, Ohio State may have won its season opener, but enters the season as 0-2 in the court of public opinion.
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It was essentially a slap on the wrist, and a big defeat for the prosecution ... who wanted way more time -- we're told they wanted a year minimum, then scaled it down to 4 months and then 1 month.
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When he later branched out into casinos, he got caught accepting an illegal loan from his father to stay afloat; he got off with a slap on the wrist and was allowed to continue in that business as well.
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He stole their mascot and waged a long-winded online harassment campaign against Paige Burton with it (an example of the way athletes are given a slap on the wrist, while Grayson Wentz was expelled for hacking someone's Twitter).
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I'm glad these bans are now being made automatically, but giving someone such a brief time out for spamming racial slurs in chat — and allowing them to continue doing it with a slap on the wrist — seems awfully generous.
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Some said they expected Beijing to offer Pyongyang a slap on the wrist, but others predicted that the pariah state's dubious claims of a hydrogen bomb could move the Chinese closer to the other regional leaders' point of view.
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When he later branched out into casinos, he got caught accepting an illegal loan from his father to stay afloat and got off with a slap on the wrist and was allowed to continue in that business as well.
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At that time, Google walked away from the encounter without incurring any financial penalties and having committed itself only to vague promises to change some business practices — an outcome derided by many critics as a slap on the wrist.
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Slap on the wrist: Montana Congressman-elect Greg Gianforte is the guy who channeled his inner Randy Macho Man Savage and body slammed reporter Ben Jacobs of The Guardian for daring to ask him a question about health care.
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Xi made a personal request to Trump when it looked like ZTE could collapse as a result of U.S. actions, and the Trump administration gave the company effectively a slap on the wrist, allowing it to stay in business.
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"The F.T.C. has been a disappointment with its lack of enforcement in the past, which for Facebook and Google has amounted to a slap on the wrist," Senator Josh Hawley, a freshman Republican from Missouri, said in an interview.
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One of nauseating disgust because, once again, the world has been reminded that men can get away with seemingly whatever they damn well please with not so much as a slap on the wrist, while women must suffer the consequences.
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What was clear between the two biggest stories, the DoJ approving the Sprint/T -Mobile merger and the FTC giving Facebook a $5 billion slap on the wrist, is that big tech has little to worry about its inertia being contained.
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So, in other words, Spotify gave Jones a slap on the wrist, which is exactly the same kind of treatment that has allowed him to continue expanding the influence of Infowars until it had the ear of the current president.
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That bolsters the likelihood that the EU fine may be nothing more than a pricey slap on the wrist in the long-run — so long as the fine, which Google is appealing, doesn't have a substantial impact on Google's advertising machine.
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Which is great for us as MMA fans and (probably) great for Daniel Cormier as Jones' opponent, but the jury will remain out as to whether leniency and another slap on the wrist is really the best thing for Jon Jones.
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To hold otherwise would only reinforce the well-founded belief within the intelligence community that rules are only for the little people and that senior officials will never get anything other than a slap on the wrist for similar misconduct.
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"There's a feeling that you can do this stuff, and you'll just get a slap on the wrist," said Nicoletta Commins, a graduate student at the Berkeley School of Public Health and one of the three women suing the university.
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In Silicon Valley and Washington circles, the news kicked off an informal parlor game of "Guess That Fine," with some speculating that even the high end of Facebook's public estimate would be little more than a slap on the wrist.
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When HR potentially disciplines the person or gives them a very light slap on the wrist and says, "Hey, please don't do that again," then what happens is that manager who is complained about might choose to sabotage you in return.
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We may have lost as many as six people going out and looking for him ... People were probably killed, and it could have been as many as six, trying to find him and then he gets a slap on the wrist.
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Infowars founder Alex Jones is getting another slap on the wrist from a major tech company: Spotify, the music streaming service that also streams podcasts, has removed multiple episode of "The Alex Jones Show" for violating the company's policies around hate speech.
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While lawmakers are right to criticize this settlement as a slap on the wrist, ultimately no perfect deal could have been brokered: nothing short of the complete dissolution of Facebook would suffice to undo the deep breach of trust Zuckerberg has sown.
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The settlement, which lawmakers and privacy experts criticized as a "slap on the wrist" for a company whose revenues last year topped $55 billion, suggested that Facebook had moved past a major regulatory challenge that has dogged it over the last year.
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And given that its season opener is against the perennially underachieving yet uber-talented University of Southern California, a mere half-game slap on the wrist could tilt the scales in a contest that the Tide should win but very well could lose.
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Of course, this wasn't a mile and a half from Fenway, which might have earned a slap on the wrist, but directly over the park, which as the FAA notes above could lead to hundreds of thousands in fines and actual prison time.
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Alternately, Trump can argue that even if the payments were technical violations of campaign finance laws, he should receive only a slap on the wrist because they ultimately were funded out of his own pocket, an arguably circuitous way of legalizing the payments.
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"The death of Jeffrey Epstein does not end the need for justice for his victims or the right of the public to know why a prolific child molester got a slap on the wrist instead of a long prison sentence," said Rep.
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Regulators had hoped the curbs would be enough of a slap on the wrist to deter investors for good and trading would remain in so-called 'lit exchanges' — where prices and trades are clearly visible - even after the limits expired in September.
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The back story: The bill was one of the first pieces of major legislation Congress sent Trump, and it served as a slap on the wrist: lawmakers gave themselves a new veto power to block the President from removing sanctions on Russia.
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"When we have incidents of bias and hate in our schools, a lot of the time they are met with just a slap on the wrist, and a promise not to do it again," said Gurbir S. Grewal, the New Jersey attorney general.
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As of last year, the agency has the power to enforce its rulings on major international sports federations; until last year, individual federations were allowed to take their own measures, and many let Russia get away with barely a slap on the wrist.
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In the article, Mr. Vargas was quoted as saying that the recommendation was "a slap on the wrist" and that his father, Norberto Vargas Sr., had once served seven years in prison for an accidental shooting — a crime eerily similar to Mr. Liang's.
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The fine was by far the largest the agency had ever issued, but to many critics, including Democratic FTC commissioners who voted against the order, it still amounted to little more than a slap on the wrist for such a massive company.
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"Twenty-five countries have entered into the excessive deficit procedure and no-one has ever got a fine, so my gut feeling is that they (Italy) won't get one, just a slap on the wrist," said Lyn Graham-Taylor, strategist at Rabobank.
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His probation was revoked -- but is now reinstated -- and instead of sending Rodman to jail, he was essentially given a slap on the wrist and told that if he messes up again in the next 2 years, he'll go to jail for 90 days.
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And because Petraeus received what amounted to a slap on the wrist for his actions, some say it would be tough to punish Clinton more for her actions if it's proven that information she sent was not classified at the time she sent it.
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Her behaviour has earned her the label of "slag" – although, glaringly, this label has never been applied to Adam, who has bed-jumped a similar number of times, in addition to literally gaslighting someone and barely getting a slap on the wrist for it.
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Almost as soon as the FTC announced its $5 billion settlement with Facebook on Wednesday morning, lawmakers in both chambers emerged with scathing criticism, calling the agreement a slap on the wrist for a company that recorded almost $56 billion in revenue last year.
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" Later, after Lisser asked to go home because she felt physically ill from his remarks, Schuler told her: "If you think that little slap on the wrist that I got from [HR] was going to make this go away, you only dug your grave deeper.
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Sometimes these are funny, as with an incident report wherein Gaynor received a "slap on the wrist" for telling a drunk to "jump in the lake" — "I got the idea from watching too many Dirty Harry movies," Gaynor says on an accompanying Post-it note.
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"An awful lot of American kids don't realize that the kinds of things that in United States society we tolerate with a slap on the wrist, a lot of countries they take very seriously," John F. Kelly, the president's chief of staff, said on Tuesday.
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It's also hard to reconcile ESPN's decision to suspend Jemele Hill for not quite calling for a boycott with the outspokenness that ESPN prizes in anchors who are not black women, who say things much more offensive and only get a slap on the wrist.
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"Your lenient sentence amounts to a slap on the wrist for a serial rapist whose violent and sadistic sex crimes will haunt his victims for years to come," six state and local officials, all women, wrote to Judge Ehlke in a letter on Tuesday.
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Almost as soon as the FTC announced its $5 billion settlement with Facebook in July, bipartisan lawmakers in both chambers emerged with scathing criticism, calling the agreement a slap on the wrist for a company that recorded almost $85033 billion in revenue last year.
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After calling Mr. Thompson's recommendation "a slap on the wrist," the juror was quoted as saying that his own father had served seven years in prison for accidentally shooting a friend — an act not dissimilar to the one in which Mr. Liang was convicted.
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"Jens David Ohlin, a vice dean at Cornell Law School and an expert on criminal and constitutional law, told Insider that though Stone's sentence was lighter than what was originally requested, it was still "substantial" and "much more than a slap on the wrist.
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At least $150 million of the proposed award would consist of punitive damages, which Wood said "would be a hard slap on the wrist" for Musk, the Tesla chief executive and SpaceX founder who during the trial estimated his own net worth at $20 billion.
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His announcement comes in the wake of the sentencing of Brock Turner, the former Stanford University swimmer who got what many legal observers say was a "slap on the wrist" for sexually assaulting a 23-year-old unconscious woman behind a trash bin on the university's campus.
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The Federal Trade Commission is reportedly investigating whether Facebook's approach to sharing user information violated a 2011 legal agreement that could in theory result in massive fines, though its historic approach to the issue suggests it is more likely to issue a relative slap on the wrist.
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The ban is a significant blow to the current group of Cardinals players—in particular for two seniors who transferred into the university specifically to have one last shot of making the tournament—but it's barely a slap on the wrist for the program as a whole.
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And while WhatsApp has largely escaped with a slap on the wrist for now, reports noting that the government has asked telecom providers to explore the possibility of blocking Facebook, WhatsApp, and other messaging apps during emergencies suggest the company could be in for future problems.
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If they get off with a slap on the wrist, the entire process seems undermined yet again and fans continue to ponder whether a fighter who would willingly cheat under the scrutiny of random testing might also have cheated during the earlier part of his career.
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The call for more scrutiny comes days after the OSC revealed that it had given one of the commissioners, Mike O'Rielly, a slap on the wrist for violating the ethics law during a CPAC panel discussion during which he called on voters to re-elect President Trump.
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All eight face identical charges that go a lot further than a slap on the wrist: not just three misdemeanors for property damage and defacing, but also two felonies, inciting a riot and participating in a riot where there is property damage in excess of $1,500.
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Her abuser receives a slap on the wrist (actually, it's more of a caress — marriage to a loving woman), and Isabella herself, a novitiate who has spent the entire play battling for her chastity, is saddled with an unrefusable marriage proposal to an even more powerful man.
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JERUSALEM — Naama Issachar was boarding a connecting flight at the Moscow airport on her way home to Israel last April when the authorities found a few grams of marijuana in her luggage, an amount so small her lawyer predicted it would draw a slap on the wrist.
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Critics included members of Congress, as Natasha Singer and Kate Conger reported in the New York Times: Critics of the settlement, including Senator Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, described the $170 million penalty as a slap on the wrist for one of the world's richest companies.
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His visit to Washington strengthened him at home, certainly among the right; dodged and diluted the issue of Palestinian statehood; and the slap on the wrist on settlements during the presser with Trump only helped him domestically by giving him a talking point to restrain his most conservative MPs.
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The punishment is worse than it would have been if Musk had settled on Thursday, but it's still largely a slap on the wrist, and it indeed puts Musk and Tesla on a significantly stronger footing, governance-wise, than they were before Musk's fateful (and very expensive) tweet.
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One young reporter who works for a major government news outlet said he and his colleagues had been brought into a room two weeks ago and reminded that anything posted to social media regarding Mr. Obama's visit would result in more than just a slap on the wrist.
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"A slap on the wrist for any credibly accused harasser is totally unacceptable and unjust, no matter how much money they bring in or what amazing products they helped build," said another employee from the Cambridge office who asked to remain anonymous for fear of repercussions at work.
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Vasquez was arrested for domestic violence in Texas back in August 2016 -- and despite the fact officials had the video showing him backhanding the woman in the face and continuing to beat her while dragging her down a stairwell ... he basically got off with a slap on the wrist.
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But archaeologists like Amr Al-Azm have suggested that this is more like a slap on the wrist: though they are being forced to forfeit thousands of artifacts in question, they are paying what (given the Green family's massive wealth) is essentially a token fine, and serving no jail time.
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While massive by the standards of tech companies, which too frequently get off with a slap on the wrist of lax data privacy practices which endanger users, the FTC's fine still represents less than a third of the company's $15.08 billion earnings from just the first quarter of this year.
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Last month, the day after the company predicted in an earnings call that it would need to pay up to $22009 billion as a penalty for its negligence — a slap on the wrist — Facebook's shares surged 25 percent, adding $21984 billion to its value, six times the size of the fine.
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"It's also hard to reconcile ESPN's decision to suspend Jemele Hill for not quite calling for a boycott with the outspokenness that ESPN prizes in anchors who are not black women, who say things much more offensive and only get a slap on the wrist," argues Kashana Cauley, a television writer.
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Then there's the fact that while $5 billion is a very large number, and a giant one for an FTC fine — the next-largest fine it has aimed against a Silicon Valley company was a $23 million slap-on-the-wrist for Google, in 2012 — it is a very doable number for Facebook.
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An argument can be made that Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson ClintonThe magic of majority rule in elections The return of Ken Starr Assault weapons ban picks up steam in Congress MORE violated election law by blocking voters' access to the polls in Massachusetts without so much as a slap on the wrist.
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After that decision, The Daily News published an article quoting Mr. Vargas as saying that the punishment — or lack of it — was "a slap on the wrist" and that his father, Norberto Vargas Sr., had once served seven years in prison for an accidental shooting, a crime oddly similar to Mr. Liang's.
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The administrative law judge, however, found only that she was negligent in not ensuring the change was properly disclosed to investors in reports issued before the sale of the securities, imposing a $7,10 fine and an order to cease and desist from future violations – not much more than a slap on the wrist.
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That's especially problematic in a culture where victims of sexual violence already hesitate to engage in the criminal justice system: Why undergo the emotional burden of facing one's attacker at a trial and risk retraumatization when it appears, in Persky's courtroom anyway, the punishment will be nothing short of a slap on the wrist?
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VICE's previous report on the shady marketing antics of CBD companies pointed out that Sunday Riley, when found guilty of paying for fake reviews, got little more than a slap on the wrist; there's little incentive for companies to play by the rules, especially when, in CBD's case, the rules are still so vague.
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The FTC's decision to let Google off with essentially a slap on the wrist — requiring only modest changes to the company's patent and business practices — drew intense criticism, particularly after The Wall Street Journal reported that the commissioners at the time went against an FTC staff report recommending an antitrust lawsuit against the company.
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Trump is typical, rather than unusual, in enjoying this kind of slap-on-the-wrist approach to white-collar crime — just ask the executives whose banks reached big-ticket settlements with the Obama Justice Department all while seeing share prices and compensation packages rise, with nobody's business ruined and no individuals held legally responsible.
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Ultimately, another $20 million—not even $1,500 per driver before legal fees, after half a decade in court—is just another slap on the wrist for a company with a track record of allegedly skirting labor laws and generally doing whatever the hell they feel like, to the detriment of its workers and the places it operates.
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Read more: The FTC has approved a roughly $5 billion settlement with FacebookMany have characterized it as essentially a slap on the wrist for Zuckerberg and his social-media company in the way of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where data from over 50 million Facebook users was used without permission by a political data analytics firm.
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In part this is because any new law is likely to have loopholes; any public understanding of data protections sufficiently is easy to obfuscate; any fine is a slap on the wrist; any new outbreak—whether in the form of data or as memes that lead to ethnic cleansing—is easily contained through distraction and promises to do better.
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Mr. Morell explained this slap-on-the-wrist approach was warranted by the laudable motives Mr. Rodriguez had for ordering the destruction of the tapes: namely, to protect against leaks that might set off a backlash similar to the violence that occurred after the release of the photos of torture from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
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It's never been more apparent where the balance of power lies on Twitter — a site where you can threaten to erase whole countries, advocate "white ethnostates," and generally be a steaming garbage pile of a human being without apparent consequence, but you can't tweet about your own sexual assault without getting a slap on the wrist.
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What else can explain why tens of thousands of Chinese Americans flooded the streets in 22013 to protest the conviction of New York police officer Peter Liang in the killing of Akai Gurley, an unarmed black man, believing he should have received the same treatment as white police officers who had killed black Americans with nary a slap on the wrist?
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"If Facebook cannot be trusted with America's private information, why should it be trusted with its money?" asked Senator Ed Markey, a member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, who likewise blasted the settlement as a "slap on the wrist" and a "partisan abdication of the FTC's duty" that will ultimately fail, he warned, to end Facebook's privacy malpractice.
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To the Editor: Re "When $5 Billion Is a Slap on the Wrist," by Charlie Warzel ("The Privacy Project," Opinion, April 29): Facebook has taken a page out of Goldman Sachs's playbook: Pay billions in fines as a cost of doing business but continue doing "God's work," as Goldman Sachs's former chief executive, Lloyd C. Blankfein, described his company's mission in 2009.
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Here's a look at some of the laws passed that make it a breeze for men like Paddock to build mass collections of lethal weapons without so much as a slap on the wrist: Along with the 275 weapons which police found in Paddock's hotel room, officials found at least 2000 bump stocks, attachments designed to make semi-automatic weapons function like automatic ones.
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The lesson in this contrast is that hate-group organizers and their supporters respond to signals, and the signal Paul Ryan wants to send them is that he will meet their ascendency with a Facebook post, an exceedingly gentle slap on the wrist for the president, and a strongly worded rejection of any meaningful efforts to drive them out of the sphere of acceptable discourse.
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Ostensibly, influencers are supposed to prominently disclose if they have received anything—be it money, free products, or something else—that could impact how a viewer interprets their endorsement of a product or brand, but enforcement is rare, and the few influencers who are caught by agencies like the Federal Trade Commission are almost exclusively celebrities and usually let off with a mere slap on the wrist.
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In an era where I had to choose between voting for a man who had bragged about sexual assault or a woman who had enabled a husband accused of it, in an era where we can't even convict Bill Cosby of sexual assault, in an era when a Brock Turner-type gets nothing but a slap on the wrist, the general public still has to be convinced that rape and sexual harassment are real problems.
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