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First, she swung a slap at her husband's attacker. She followed up by picking up the plate and trying to strike him with it.

defies UN resolutions and also appears to be a slap at the United States as Washington moves to enforce UN sanctions.

Saudi Arabia, in a slap at American efforts to defuse the crisis, dispatched troops to Bahrain to help crush the protesters.

White House spokesman Tony Snow Wednesday denied that the move was "a slap at China. "

Mr. Murdoch's wife, seated behind, leaped to her feet and defended her husband with an open-palmed slap at the attacker.

Haeckel is his little tin god. The only way to insult him is to take a slap at Haeckel.

He rarely talks of the Guangdong model, which would sound like a slap at others.

Just last month, Russia vetoed sanctions against Zimbabwe's government, a move seen as a slap at Washington.

The remarks were taken as a direct slap at the existing government's policy.

The website, which launched in 2009, woos travel agencies today, and also takes a slap at online travel agencies and Fodor's.

That was in part a slap at Mrs Merkel's seven-month-old government.