1.   But regulators and consumer activists say unauthorized billing is beginning to rival slamming as a problem, though firm statistics are impossible to come by.

2.   Her projects have been slammed as obscene, pornographic and just plain bad.

3.   Her pedigree only helps her detractors slam her as a rich dilettante.

4.   The unrated film, shot documentary-style with teen-age actors, has been both slammed as soft porn and hailed as a jarringly honest tale of amoral adolescents.

5.   Belarusian voters decided Sunday whether to grant their hard-line president sweeping new powers in a controversial referendum boycotted by his opposition and slammed as unfair by observers.

6.   But legislators immediately slammed it as favoring Lukashenko, who would head the body.

7.   But lawmakers immediately slammed it as favoring Lukashenko, who would head the body.

8.   Detractors frequently slammed him as a egotistical, loud-mouth and a dirty-playing goalpoacher.

9.   During the Nouvelle Cuisine era, he was slammed as passe.

10.   Sampling can be slammed as being a lack of creativity heightened to an art form, especially when repetitiveness endures to the point of becoming Chinese water torture.