1.   And what he did say was a backhanded slap at the team.

2.   Holistic vets argued that the guidelines would discourage use of legitimate practices and constituted a backhanded slap at their integrity.

3.   In various settings Tuesday, he stressed the issue of human rights, taking a backhanded slap at Burma.

4.   It was a backhanded slap at political leaders of the area who oppose the thaw with Ecuador.

5.   The message could be potent as a backhanded slap at one of his Republican rivals, Steve Forbes, a multimillionaire publisher who inherited much of his money.

6.   The move appears to be yet another backhanded slap in a long-running and complicated family feud over rights to the archives and its proceeds.