Shaaban said the idea smacked of an illegal land grab.
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This pairing smacked of producers who didn't really think things through.
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Anything that smacked of revolt and the counter-culture was targeted.
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And for some investors and employees, that apparent reversal smacked of hypocrisy.
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For one expert, the response to the pool problem smacked of mismanagement.
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American congressmen said this smacked of submission to retaliatory pressure from China.
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Jon Pareles, in The New York Times, said it smacked of corporate perfectionism.
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A lawmaker in the ruling Conservative party said it smacked of populism over principle.
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The proceeding smacked of spectacle over substance and shed little light on Mueller's findings.
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Some experts on government ethics said Goldman's treatment of Mr. Cohn smacked of favoritism.
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To many in the beverage industry this smacked of "thirst marketing", purposely keeping supply scarce.
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It smacked of leaders huddling together and chanting "we are not afraid" while being terrified.
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Anything that smacked of restraint came to seem like a bad thing to be eliminated.
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It smacked of Saudi's all-or-nothing approach to dealing with tiny Gulf state Qatar.
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Most Republicans on the committee voted against it, saying it smacked of government price fixing.
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The same investor said the "buzz" around the event smacked of other high-profile tech IPOs.
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Initially, Weinstein's PR strategy to combat what was coming to him smacked of his old tricks.
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It was a move that smacked of desperation and the pound was devalued by the evening.
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Sessions's other anti-immigration tactics smacked of malign neglect at best and outright malice at worst.
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Those three lines smacked of advocacy and tainted the rest of a largely descriptive press conference.
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His eager pursuit of brown- and black-skinned immigrants in general has smacked of white supremacy.
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Even the main hashtag being #MacronLeaks, in English rather than in French, smacked of foreign meddling.
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The comment smacked of Mao Zedong's justification for nationalizing China's private sector in the mid-1950s.
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For her to suggest that another sport merited equal footing with football smacked of foolish independence.
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No apologies, no acceptance of responsibility, only techniques of denial and counterattack — that smacked of Donald Trump.
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Her refusal to debate directly with opponents smacked of arrogance or, worse, a deep lack of self-belief.
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Chinese Nationalists dominated Chinatown politics, and they favored "modern Chinese" architecture over anything that smacked of Communist China.
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His accusations smacked of the kind of ideological bloodletting that Solidarity's leaders had vowed to put behind them.
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To his critics, chief among them The New York Times's Harold C. Schonberg, Bernstein's style smacked of Broadway.
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An accelerated sale last month of its stake in oilfield services unit Baker Hughes smacked of desperation, some said.
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Thus True Conservatism's determination to avoid both anything that savored of big government and anything that smacked of compromise.
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Critics named the affair "Selmayrgate" and the European Parliament savaged Juncker in March, saying the appointment smacked of cronyism.
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Although these movements were very different from each other, they rejected anything that smacked of metaphysics, mysticism, and otherworldliness.
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All this smacked of a wild judicial overreaction by the Spanish state, but Mr Puigdemont's actions had been highly provocative.
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This smacked of a personal vendetta against McGregor, with Lundvall stating the Dubliner "needed to be humbled" during the hearing.
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Mr. Sessions was a longtime opponent of these agreements, complaining that they damaged police morale and smacked of federal overreach.
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The use of a female attacker and cyanide pill to commit suicide also smacked of the M.E.K.'s past practices.
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Giving the courage award to Ms. Jenner, he said in an interview, smacked of "social engineering" on behalf of ESPN.
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All the pieces mixed Jewish folk material with early-twentieth-century modernist gestures: they often smacked of Bartók in the shtetls.
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The outsize faith placed in Muhammad bin Salman, the Saudi prince whose minions are accused of killing Mr Khashoggi, smacked of naivety.
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This excess of forward planning in a region accustomed to last-minute improvisation smacked of nervousness about tougher times ahead in Bolivia.
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The Alamo's all-female screenings were exclusionary, sexist, smacked of misandry, they wrote on Facebook and Twitter, and set a dangerous precedent.
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The Kremlin on Thursday said Facebook's removal of accounts controlled by various Russian media was a hostile move that smacked of censorship.
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Democrats had immediately seized on the stunning reversal, saying it smacked of political interference, and it renewed calls for Barr to resign.
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The decision to create a special category for popular films sparked an immediate backlash, with one critic saying it smacked of desperation.
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She wore a prom-ready blush-colored Versace gown that, again, smacked of Old Taylor (it also took 800 hours to produce, NBD).
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Because ethnic-Chinese Singaporeans, who make up three-quarters of the population, are highly educated, the measures smacked of eugenics and were unpopular.
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" It was that comment which made Wickett sit up, noting that it smacked of "insecurity rather than someone being secure in their position.
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The invitation to Mr Trump thus smacked of an attempt by Mr Peña to distract attention from the countless domestic problems he faces.
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Instead of reassuring Washington, Professor Moon's comments smacked of unilateral disarmament and exacerbated concerns that the interests of Washington and Seoul are diverging.
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That advice smacked of Stanislavsky's "method," wherein actors try to learn everything about a character's background — first kiss, favorite smell — before stepping onstage.
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Their effort, he said, smacked of anti-Semitism or, since some of the opponents were Jewish, bias against Hasidim and other Orthodox Jews.
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To others it smacked of gouging, especially when there were huge spikes in prices during Superstorm Sandy and a hostage crisis in Sydney.
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Abbas' speech was highly critical of Israel, and received widespread condemnation from Israeli leaders, some of whom suggested it smacked of anti-Semitism.
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This smacked of the well-worn conspiracy theory that Jewish financiers buy off American politicians, and led to Democratic leadership publicly condemning Omar's comments.
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Amnesty International Hong Kong director Mabel Au released a statement calling the charges vague and saying they smacked of political payback by the authorities.
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Macri, who took office in December, has said that his leftist predecessor former President Cristina Fernandez's push to punish military repressors smacked of revenge.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Thursday said Facebook's removal of accounts controlled by various Russian media was a hostile move that smacked of censorship.
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Wednesday's market action smacked of short-term capitulation, but analysts expect more volatility — and more selling — ahead, even if there is a relief rally.
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A spokesman for Secretary Clinton said Thursday the continued focus on the Uranium One deal smacked of partisan politics aimed at benefiting Donald Trump.
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It smacked of former US Secretary of State Colin Powell's 2003 UN address in which he claimed that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.
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BRUSSELS — To Belgians, a proposed food safety rule smacked of bureaucratic overreach that would threaten a centuries-old craft and tarnish the country's traditions.
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Even worse, the tower wasn't nearly the tallest one in New York, and the records it set smacked of desperation: Biggest air conditioning system!
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And while she may not have projected sex appeal, she did reek of aristocracy, or at least her name, Astor, smacked of the manor.
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A Kentucky state representative believed that a new law requiring women to have a medical consultation 24 hours before having an abortion smacked of sexism.
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Animal rights group Gaia said the attempts to put the animal back into its enclosure smacked of a "cowboy mentality" by the zoo and police.
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Critics never seemed to get over their alleged "amateurism," which, considering that none of them were actual amateurs, smacked of boring, run-of-the-mill sexism.
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But her win also smacked of a phenomenon that routinely afflicts the Grammys, which despite years — decades — of curveball winners, remains the music industry's most coveted honor.
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Chinese Defence Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun said the move would add a new unsafe and unstable element to northeast Asia and smacked of a Cold War mentality.
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I didn't want to be different from any other Marine officer, and I loathed anything that smacked of a victim narrative — after all, I was an Amazon.
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Protesters said James' comments smacked of a double-standard, because he's used his clout as a sports headliner to press for social causes in the United States.
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News this past February of Ramsay's London-based Lucky Cat—described in a release as "the go-to destination for exquisite, authentic Asian cuisine"—smacked of similar sentiments.
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But Ms. Ngwenyama's intervention was enough to cast a pall over the rest of the movement, so that the moments of sweetness now smacked of desperation and denial.
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Mr. Trump's approach makes a sharp break from former President Barack Obama, who tightly controlled decisions on military troops, a practice that some critics complained smacked of micromanaging.
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The election was won by the conservative incumbent, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a political ally of Mr. Mortazavi's, by what opponents called a suspiciously lopsided margin that smacked of fraud.
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For seasoned observers it smacked of disinformation, which was designed to send a message to his family and friends they should keep quiet or face similar character assassination.
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" She suggested the whole affair smacked of efforts under Stalin to strike dissenters from the historical record: "It was a form of rewriting history by erasing it from existence.
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Fadell is almost pathologically compelled to say what's on his mind, and never in the week I spent shadowing him did he say anything that smacked of self-pity.
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Questioning the loyalty of a naturalized U.S. citizen, let alone an active-duty Army colonel who fled the Soviet Union as a small child, smacked of xenophobia and bigotry.
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LISA SEBASCO, 53, Oakland There's nothing offensive per se in the lyrical content of the song, but it's always smacked of being an act of "cultural appropriation" to me.
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White supremacists, angered by negative coverage of Trump's campaign, began photoshopping images of journalists into concentration camp uniforms and into cartoons that smacked of 1930s-era anti-Semitic imagery.
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To investors, the rate cut smacked of desperation and it indicated that global central bankers are moving toward a round of competitive devaluations, or currency wars, to stimulate their economies.
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It smacked of a lynching and did no harm to Tsai Ing-wen with her call for Taiwan to distance itself from China, whose hand many saw in the bullying.
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Sinclair has also been facing controversy in recent days over an anti-"fake stories" promo the company mandated its anchors read on the air, which critics say smacked of authoritarianism.
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But there was nothing in them that ever smacked of the predatory; on the contrary, it was his fastidious honesty, his euphoric interest in sexuality, that rattled and embarrassed me.
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Despite concerns such a database smacked of the Holocaust, Trump has continued to stand by those plans, even stating in late December, "You know my plans," when asked about the matter.
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We soon learn that Zurawski, a former judge, oversaw a case where Janow was lead detective, a mysterious triple homicide that, like Ziółek's apparent suicide, smacked of a political cover-up.
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But more than anything, the problem was that Wembley's location smacked of centralization, of London's domination of the rest of the country, of its absorption of investment and resources and opportunity.
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Trump was allegedly using his office to extort a foreign leader to help benefit his reelection campaign, a move that smacked of the Richard Nixon era for many in the party.
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Airlines in America have also enjoyed billions of dollars in various government subsidies over the years and it has always smacked of hypocrisy that they are taking aim at the Gulf carriers.
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When asked about Facebook's move, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Thursday agreed with a questioner from one of the affected media outlets that it was a hostile step which smacked of censorship.
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His explanation for the error—that he was simply eager to "reach out and apologize" for whatever had happened—smacked of political expediency instead of a genuine reckoning with his past actions.
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WeWork appeared desperate to go public, for good reasonThose repeated efforts to try to placate and lure in investors smacked of desperation, said Jeff Langbaum, a real-estate analyst with Bloomberg Intelligence.
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He visited Cuba, he became involved in Latin American politics centered on opposition to anything that smacked of U.S. imperialism, and he and Jane even honeymooned in the Soviet Union in 20203.
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Several people who worked on the project felt that the final version butchered the film artistically, and smacked of denialism: Dialogue that explicitly referred to systematic mass killing had been stripped out.
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One lawyer who left in 2017 says that staff were instructed "to scrub words like 'reform'" from their writing, because "anything that smacked of reform was too closely aligned with the previous administration".
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Delrahim, in a speech at the American Bar Association last week, said that he opposed those sorts of remedies because they smacked of regulation and were ineffective and a drain on government resources.
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Many chefs and journalists contended that the award's very existence smacked of tokenism, especially when bestowed upon a chef, like Ms. Crenn, whose restaurant has never appeared on the World's 50 Best list.
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It looked to me like Wood was trying to suggest the volume of minisub tweets smacked of a PR stunt, particularly after Musk testified that he knows his tweets will be reported on.
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Arpgeggiated basslines bounced up and down on stiff synthetic rhythms, rinky-dink melodies were married to shlocky, campy and vampy vocals and the whole thing smacked of the ridiculously sublime and the sublimely ridiculous.
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The British enthusiasm for "academic" subjects has always smacked of the Victorian era, when young gentlemen were expected to get a well-rounded education so they could keep up a conversation in polite society.
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But he then proceeded to do the same to Glenn (Steven Yeun), his victim in the comics, which smacked of overkill, especially after Glenn's "Is he or isn't he?" period in the sixth season.
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The morning smacked of crisp autumn air and rich star-spangled pomp, and for a few seconds at least, I allowed myself to pretend this would be a normal Veterans Day in the city.
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Slide: IBM Slide: IBM Dan Scholnick, general partner at Trinity Ventures, whose investments have included New Relic and Docker, was not terribly impressed with the deal, believing it smacked of desperation on IBM's part.
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For critics of the mayor, and even some supporters of his policy vision, the fight over the hospital smacked of a cynical gambit and a portent of how politics could pre-empt serious policy.
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SYDNEY, Australia — Australian military veterans recoiled at a government-backed policy that would allow them to board some commercial airlines ahead of other passengers, calling the move a political stunt that smacked of tokenism.
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Maven said it would hire dozens of contractors to fuel the site, but to many critics, the plan smacked of the model popularized by Forbes and HuffPost that's been associated with cheap, low-quality content.
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In an age when the income gap is becoming a gulf, showing clothes for the 1 percent while using the 99 percent as a backdrop could have seemed tone-deaf and smacked of noblesse oblige.
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If you want to get conspiratorial about it, the platform, as a tech company, always had certain built-in political or ideological aims, and certainly its archindividualism had smacked of Silicon Valley's techno-libertarian streak.
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In court papers filed this month, Ms. Macedonio wrote that the arson case, which was filed in March, smacked of "vengeful blindness" by the same prosecutors who had failed to convict Mr. Asaro in 2015.
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When the trailer for Brexit dropped, an almighty uproar descended as many viewers felt the trailer smacked of glamorisation of a figure who spearheaded a campaign that was subsequently found to be in breach of electoral law.
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On Friday, creditors argued the loan package for the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, or PREPA, smacked of an insider deal which they said was at odds with the law guiding the territory's record-setting financial restructuring.
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For Mr. Trump, Ms. Meyer's performance violated two major rules: Politically, it undercut his immigration crackdown, and in a personal sense, it smacked of profiteering off Mr. Trump — one of the sins that warrants expulsion from his orbit.
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US national security analyst and military historian Max Boot agreed with the premise that the failure to notify Coats of the invitation smacked of White House incompetence but also suggested that "something more sinister and nefarious" was going on.
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In his role as a guardian of yeshivas, he vigorously opposed any educational structures that smacked of elitism, according to Rabbi David Hofstedter, leader of Dirshu, an ultra-Orthodox organization based in Canada that provides stipends for yeshiva study.
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His program to knock down hundreds of homes in black and Latino neighborhoods like hers smacked of gentrification and ultimately cost her family several investment properties they hoped to repair but couldn't after Williams-Preston's husband suffered a serious illness.
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BRUSSELS/STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - The European Parliament savaged EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Monday for promoting his chief aide to the top of the EU civil service, saying it smacked of cronyism and would fuel mounting public distrust.
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To hard-line unionists, whose central tenet is to be part of the United Kingdom, any talk of a special status for Northern Ireland smacked of separating them economically and politically from Britain and pushing them toward the Republic of Ireland.
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After he raised the "Libya model" of removing nuclear weapons ahead of first summit in Singapore -- which, to Kim's ears, smacked of regime change and the grisly demise of Moammar Gadhafi -- Trump was furious, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Although many scientists favored the plan, opponents said it smacked of colonialism, racism and "biopiracy" — meaning that if the samples led to medical or pharmaceutical breakthroughs, the people who donated their DNA would never see the health benefits or the profits.
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Now, for Dorsey to visit a country currently wracked by the consequences of hate and violence in the social media age, and to not even acknowledge it, smacked of insensitive privilege, and at least some deep irony about the Silicon Valley bubble.
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Aldridge, the lead singer of UK hardcore punk band Petrol Girls, went to volunteer but quickly realized that that dynamic—some humanitarian volunteer swooping in to save needy victims—was a dead concept, and one that smacked of a kind of shallow colonialism.
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A last-minute offer by Mr Rivera to abstain in the vote to install a new government if Mr Sánchez promised a harsher line against Catalan and Basque nationalists smacked of a first blow in the blame game rather than a serious move.
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But as Gulliver pointed out in September, Boeing's accusations against Bombardier smacked of hypocrisy, as the American company has itself received billions of dollars of state assistance, from generous military contracts placed by the federal government to $8.7bn in handouts from the Washington state government.
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Hollande also warned his youthful economy minister, Emmanuel Macron, who was harshly criticized by other ministers for holding a political rally that smacked of rivalry to his president, that he should respect the rules of cabinet solidarity, but he struck a broadly forgiving tone.
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For Friedrich Nietzsche, part of a younger generation of German philosophers writing toward the end of the nineteenth century, any talk of necessity smacked of a discredited Christian view of the world, according to which there is a pre-ordained structure to the universe.
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China was angered by Australia's recent blocking of an A$10 billion ($7.7 billion) sale of the country's biggest energy grid to Chinese bidders, and by Britain's delay of a $24 billion Chinese-invested nuclear project, saying the hurdles smacked of protectionism and paranoia.
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If a few moments in "Unpronounceable" smacked of juvenilia—an overwrought description of a falling snowflake, for example—the writing, on the whole, was heartfelt and trenchant, even when tackling such difficult topics as crises of faith and the tradition of public self-flagellation.
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For many years, sustainable design and green architecture and green cities have often smacked of this idea of being expensive design where you see these far-reaching solutions that have solar panels and wind turbines strapped to its roof, looking all very techno-centric.
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He said the decision smacked of politics, comparing the presidential decree to a recent effort to humiliate another cleric, Rizieq Shihab, the leader of the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front, whom the police named as a suspect in a pornography case in late May.
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And: For anything that smacked of a classroom or of being lectured to — "professor" was one of his bad words, and he was proud of never going to class, never buying a textbook, never taking a note — he got up and left the room.
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But for Odom, who is black and more than a decade older than Buttigieg, the mayor's primary idea for getting rid of urban decay -- expediting code enforcement in order to demolish 228,21950 deteriorating houses in 22013,20153 days -- smacked of gentrification and reignited racial tensions in the city.
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In the space of a few hours that highlighted tensions over the matter, Germany's Angela Merkel on Friday reaffirmed that her country would not deliver any arms to Saudi Arabia until Khashoggi's death was explained, while French President Emmanuel Macron said such moves smacked of populist "demagoguery".
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And yes, his retirement from international soccer the other week, as Argentina found itself on the losing side of a penalty kicks lottery against Chile in the didn't-we-do-this-just-last-year Copa América final, smacked of a spoiled brat chucking his toys out of the crib.
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During her speech at the Democratic National Convention, Clinton leaned into her nature as a workhorse, not a showboat; she was going for authenticity, but that particular boast also smacked of the dreaded role of bean-counter assigned to too many women who are seen as invisible executors, not visionaries.
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On Monday, the president issued multiple tweets that smacked of denial and panic, downplaying the crisis, lashing out at Democrats and the "Fake News" and claiming that the nose-dive in the domestic stock market — so steep it triggered a brief suspension of trading — had nothing to do with the virus.
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The Atlantic went even further: "HQ Trivia Is a Harbinger of Dystopia," it announced, pointing out that the game's unreal presentation, paired with its ability to pit thousands of users against one another in a frenzied quest for "table scraps," smacked of a classic cyberpunk-esque society on the verge of collapse.
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" It's all so precise and laugh-inducing that I found myself wanting to smack the guy across the top of the head when, a couple pages after introducing me to D.O.A.'s professional wrestlers — one dubbed "The Plus-Sized Playboy," whose "face paint smacked of the Insane Clown Posse," and the other, "Dr.
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But she also did it with faded denim coveralls stenciled with sign language gestures, dark denim boyfriend jeans and sheer point d'esprit and tulle corseted debutante dresses revealing big pants with a "Christian Dior" elastic band at the waist, many paired with leather berets and mirrored glasses that smacked of role play.
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The woman, dancing next, had one-legged open-armed balances that especially smacked of Western academic dance; the second man had a new kind of fluency in big sweeping phrases that took him across the stage; the final man had wonderful rotations of the pelvis and determined quarter-turns (south, east, north, west).
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To Democrats, that new rule smacked of censorship and was reminiscent of similar efforts by Republicans in Congress to impose fines for unapproved use of photography or video devices in the wake of a raucous June protest by Democrats, who were trying to enact new gun-control laws while shooting cellphone video from the floor.
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CNN anchor Chris CuomoChristopher (Chris) Charles CuomoCuomo brothers rib each other during CNN interview: 'There's always a time to call mom' Trump touts cooperation with states on coronavirus after criticizing Democratic governors CNN's Acosta: Trump referring to coronavirus as 'foreign virus' in Oval Office address 'smacked of xenophobia' MORE and his older brother New York Gov.
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It smacked of the sort of screwup a 23-year-old intern might have made—and indeed, much of the software on the MAX had been engineered by recent grads of Indian software-coding academies making as little as $9 an hour, part of Boeing management's endless war on the unions that once represented more than half its employees.
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Held in a room banked with white hydrangeas and rimmed by mileslong bars, where white-coated servers dispensed Dom Pérignon and Casa Dragones tequila, the event, though mobbed, was smaller than in previous years and smacked of a return to the exclusivity and glamour some complained it surrendered when it moved from its longtime setting in the Sunset Tower Hotel.
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In the podcast's very early days, the hosts suggested that people needed to hear murder stories because it might help them to stay on alert and avoid getting murdered themselves, but that always felt like a half-baked idea (in the book, Kilgariff compares the approach to Hints From Heloise), and, anyway, they mostly abandoned it when listeners pointed out that it smacked of victim-blaming.
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The struggling German lender, facing a US Department of Justice fine of up to US$14bn, priced a US$3bn bond offering late on Friday October 7 after many in the market had left for the long weekend in the US. It then returned in the very next session on Tuesday with a US$1.5bn tap of the five-year trade, paying an apparently unnecessary premium that some said smacked of desperation.
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And some also pointed out that Arya's life experiences up to this point have undoubtedly left her traumatized, noting that it's not necessarily great for her to be having sex in that state: she's not OKAY, about her body or control or intimacy, but the ep appeared to gloss the not-okayness of the sex Meanwhile, plenty of people observed that a lot of the hysteria over Arya having sex smacked of hypocrisy and sexism.
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The former Republican National Committee spokesman's tenure as White House press secretary was marked by several confrontations with White House correspondents, most notably CNN's Jim AcostaJames (Jim) AcostaJudge rules lawsuit alleging Trump threatened free press can move forward Sean Spicer takes seat at White House press briefing CNN's Acosta: Trump referring to coronavirus as 'foreign virus' in Oval Office address 'smacked of xenophobia' MORE and American Urban Radio Networks' April Ryan, who is also a CNN contributor.
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Andrew, keep politics out of it.... Cuomo appeared on his brother Chris CuomoChristopher (Chris) Charles CuomoCuomo brothers rib each other during CNN interview: 'There's always a time to call mom' Trump touts cooperation with states on coronavirus after criticizing Democratic governors CNN's Acosta: Trump referring to coronavirus as 'foreign virus' in Oval Office address 'smacked of xenophobia' MORE's show on CNN Monday night, and he has in recent days called on Trump to take decisive action and issue blanket guidelines to states for combating the coronavirus.
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