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The very existence of the camps is embarrassing, as it smacks awkwardly of segregation, the kind that was supposed to have ended.

A guy is reading his paper when his wife walks up behind him and smacks him on the back of the head with a frying pan.

I'm not sure whether he is trying to be clever or controversial, but either way, such writing smacks of racism.

Sean Donnelly, an Irish political scientist, said the episode "smacks of complete lack of political judgment and panic" .

Although the move smacks of desperation, GM is not the only firm hoping that discounting can help it weather a sluggish global economy.

Three days later he's reading his paper when she walks up behind him and smacks him on the back of the head again with the frying pan.

And Lenny smacks her, hard, one hand across her face, and he says, "You're cheating on me, that's how you are. "

So far, however, all this smacks of political posturing.

The word rolls on your tongue. It smacks of new worlds, of futuristic adventure!

To the man-in-the-street, all this smacks of a system that has failed.

To nationalist politicians, that smacks of powering the enemy.

Meanwhile, anything that smacks of curbing domestic consumption in favour of international goals is anathema to the White House.

All this smacks of a desperate, if cunning, gamble.

To many, that forecast still smacks of cyber-fantasy. But the rise of Facebook at least gives pause for thought.

For a country in the throes of an economic crisis, a national holiday to listen to the bouzouki smacks of self-indulgence.

Just when you think you have everything under control, something jumps out and smacks you in the face, dear Scorpio.

Rumours of the demise of gold have been exaggerated so often in recent years that seizing on its recent slump smacks of recklessness.

Its plan to sell more than half of the asset-management division while retaining more than half of its profit smacks of sleight-of-hand.

The union's answer to this massive challenge smacks of industrial suicide: they are threatening to go on strike.

That, says Tang, smacks of the Cultural Revolution, when the law was used to enforce the will of leaders.

I think that the whole surrogate mother area smacks a little bit of dealing in human beings seems dehumanizing.

Odd this should come out today. It smacks of a smear piece. The man may not be perfect, but he is certainly doing a heroic thing.

Critics are already saying it smacks of McCarthyism, a reference to the anti-communist hearings back in the 1950s.

Add in the fact that the move was taken ahead of the upcoming Party Congress meeting and this smacks of regime change of the highest order.

Some might say the concept of Belizean Grove smacks of elitism.

A number of fishing-smacks and coasting boats, some retaining the fantastic fashion of ancient galleys, were discernible on the red Sea.

One of the best teaser posters of all time, this image smacks of kinky office sex.

Even regimes that disdain anything that smacks of a western model want to claim the legitimacy conferred by democratic choices.

the governor's supposedly voluntary exit smacks of a sop to the ANC's restive left-wing allies.

The liberals' defense of the Internet smacks of elitism, and subconsciously, even extreme Darwinism.

That sounds like a reasonable request, but to many immigrants it smacks of arrogance.

It smacks of an emergency solution, not a considered construction.

Desperately seeking an exit, it repeatedly smacks itself against the nearest window.

Many Republicans, meanwhile, remain skeptical of a big boost in deficit spending, and oppose anything that smacks of a tax hike.

Jackson and Del Toro are planning two three-hour movies, a decision which smacks heavily of commercial opportunity.

For many voters, this all smacks of Japan's earlier attempt to escape the LDP's shadow, in 1993.

The Wall Street Journal blog says the brochure smacks of Big Brother.

For many teachers and middle-class parents this smacks of an Orwellian nightmare.

This old-school -- and desperate --tactic is a total turn-off to potential employers and smacks of spam.

Moreover, it takes such little effort that it smacks of indifference.

Widening the pool from which top employers hire gradates when there are not enough jobs to go round smacks of poor timing.

Tories hate higher taxes, Lib Dems anything that smacks of xenophobia. Their respective bases cancel each other out.

For instance, a recent research paper from the laboratory about the bonding of gold atoms smacks of pure science.

Those who find it all smacks of Big Brother can turn their webcams off.

And it smacks of political correctness to refer to Moctezuma as "elected" (he was chosen by and from the Mexica royal family).

Some argue that the case against soccer smacks of politics.

"We should, therefore, protest openly everything . . . that smacks of discrimination or slander" (Mary McLeod Bethune).

Most people think the question smacks of madness.

Her husband's resort to campaign stratagems also smacks of desperation.

It smacks of a bar that starts to sell a lot of booze to the owner.

We know it smacks of classic diet food, but those Ruby Reds are MIGHTY delicious!

But the DPJ's refusal to consider Mr Fukuda's proposals smacks of opportunism.

Such behaviour towards them smacks of racism.

His gait smacks of the sea.

His record of 37 goals in 44 appearances in the Japanese League certainly smacks of danger for the home side.

At times the EU's behaviour smacks of a loss of moral confidence.

But they are also, on the average, poorer than whites, and they are rightly incensed at anything that smacks of xenophobia.

The impact smacks the man into the steering wheel.

HAS China returned to the days of central planning? Or is it just stomping on anything that smacks of democracy?

It smacks of spiritual pride and elitism.

Some Republicans worry that a federal role in education smacks of socialism.

Twelve PAs in 24 months smacks of harassment to me.

That smacks of wishful thinking.

Yet this smacks of hypocrisy.

In fact, professional and amateur investors alike are reluctant to buy anything that smacks of risk.

I hate the way she smacks her lips before she talks.

And if this smacks of hearsay not science, the new "hedonimetrists" can appeal to other kinds of evidence, better calculated to impress.

I'm telling you, I need some smacks.

But the timing smacks of opportunism: based on the 180-day average, the premium morphs to a 9. 5 per cent discount.

Do you shrink from doing anything that smacks of self-promotion?

His philosophy places too much emphasis on the self and smacks of narcissism