Yes, that would be better than a poke in the eye.

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The 58-storey tower designed by Lord Foster, a British architect, is both a symbol of Alberta's new role as Canada's economic engine and a poke in the eye for Toronto, the traditional corporate headquarters.

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The photos, circulated by the prime minister's office, were both a poke in the eye of the European Union, which recently banned the import of seal products, and a gesture of solidarity with Canada's Inuit, for whom the fishy-tasting meat is a staple.

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The filing is a direct poke in the eye of the Commissioner of baseball, Bud Selig, who recently rejected the Dodgers 17-year television deal with Fox Sports.

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Though Ubisoft has been a very public supporter of the Wii U and its capabilities (ZombiU is an Ubisoft game, for instance), this is a very public poke in the eye which could have helped to spur sales of a system that is by all accounts struggling.

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No small part of his goal was to poke a stick in the eye of top universities and steal away some of their best.

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Mr. REINSCH: And so what he's proposing, essentially, is to poke a stick in the eye of the very governments that we're asking for help.

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Spengler attributes this poke in the eye to a cold calculation by the Pacific rim types that the United States is no longer the region's dominant economic power.

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