Sentences with phrase «copeland body blow»

It dealt a huge body blow to the EU.

«You can imagine a scenario where this mishap led to a hiring that was long overdue, and the company is in a better position when that hire is in place,» Martino says, calling the negative publicity a «body blow.»

The body blows aren't even a recent development.

Eli Lilly took a body blow with the high profile failure of its experimental Alzheimer's treatment last month (including the prospect of looming job cuts).

Hurricane Maria delivered a serious body blow to the Puerto Rican economy by severely damaging much of the island's infrastructure.

Critics say that apart from the body blow to the books of domestic insurers, the «massively distortive» tax grab sends a signal to global investors that Canada is no place to do business.

Brian Jean was all over the BC government's refusal to support Trans Mountain calling it a «body blow» to the energy sector and proof that Rachel Notley's climate strategy didn't deliver the social license Alberta needs to move ahead with energy projects because BC «rejected her entire platform.»

Each song plays like a slow - motion fight, with each word landing like a body blow.

Presumably, were this body blown up, another could be formed; hence, God need not be seen as dependent on us or on any particular body as we are.

Opponents of assisted suicide could strike a body blow by amending the Controlled Substances Act to prohibit the use of federally regulated drugs in the intentional ending of life.

After enduring a few body blows from a multicultural critique of my white male perspective, I'm far less likely to imagine myself capable of the larger - scale, overall grasp of reality.

The Independent Brewers Association said ACCC's findings were a «body blow» for Australia's independent brewing industry and did not match the realities faced by independent brewers in the marketplace.

He was too big for Liston to throw around, and his body blows hurt the future champ.

He absorbed the body blows in New York and New England and emerged with his self - confidence intact.

Rousey and Triple H then faced off and Ronda went all out with head and body blows, pinning him in the corner.

He can eat thundering left and right hooks by the dozen, stagger around the ring like a Skid Road drunk, throw up between rounds from the force of the body blows, and then rise dutifully at the sound of the bell for another frightful three minutes of the same.

Then the body blow to Arsenal's title ambitions was delivered in scrappy style by defender Williams.

Liverpool, on an 11 - match winning run, were closing in on their first league crown since 1990, but were dealt a body blow by the Blues with three games to go.

The goal was a body blow for Leicester having just got back into the match.

A peripheral Giroud, who had taken in several body blows all night, was withdrawn, to a warm applause from the home fans.

Boateng body blow Pep Guardiola's hopes of bowing out at Bayern with the Treble received an almighty setback at the weekend with the chilling announcement that German international centre - back, Jerome Boateng, could be out for some considerable time with a serious groin injury.

The Liberal Democrats were quick to seize on the news with former leader Nick Clegg claiming: «The resignation of somebody as experienced as Sir Ivan Rogers is a body blow to the Government's Brexit plans.»

«This judgement is a body blow for parliamentary democracy,» Caroline Lucas said after the ruling.

They will remain the main party in Scotland, but this is a body blow.

Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood dealt Labour a body blow - seizing the Rhondda seat on the Welsh Assembly.

Copeland will be a body blow to Labour simply because of how incredibly unusual it is.

Public and Commercial Services union general secretary Mark Serwotka has described the apparent climbdown over coastguard cuts as a «body blow» for the government and further evidence of what can be achieved by community campaigning.

Hoey, who chairs the All - Party Parliamentary Group on Zimbabwe, had called the visit a «body blow» to people who had suffered under the Mugabe regime and said the that the meeting would «pander to the vanity of a wily and ruthless dictator».

The stain of misogynistic behavior spreading across government is a body blow to democracy.

Harriet Harman has admitted that the shock exit poll published at 10 pm on election day was «a body blow none of us will ever forget».

Democratic mayoral challenger Sal Albanese tagged Mayor de Blasio with a series of body blows Wednesday night, jabbing his administration as the «least transparent» in city history and suggesting de Blasio should have been indicted for corruption.

Yet double - digit poll deficits after the Copeland body blow leave it fretting that May's West Midlands metro mayor contest will be perilously tight.

Mr. Astorino, for reasons that aren't clear, refused to participate in the radio debate, which at the least would have attracted heavy newspaper coverage of the one opportunity the Governor was offering him to go one - on - one on equal footing rather than taking body blows from Mr. Cuomo's far superior campaign war chest.

Gov. Ernie Fletcher and former Rep. Anne Northup are exchanging televised body blows over ethics in advance of the May 22 Republican primary, while two former lieutenant governors and a past gubernatorial candidate are fighting to make it to the June 26 runoff on the Democratic end of things.

In addition, Brown has taken some body blows as a result of the League of Conservation Voters advertising campaign.

«Right now, I'd say Levy doesn't make it onto the primary ballot, and that would be a body blow to Cox,» said one of the state's best - known Republicans.

Meanwhile, his move towards regional pay will be a body blow to thousands of hard working public servants in Wales.

How many body blows can ours take before it can no longer stand back up?

Biological engineers often find it difficult to use them to model body blows coming from certain directions or to predict trauma to areas such as the lumbar spine and abdomen.

Beginners are often plagued by this cramp, which strikes like a boxer's body blow and happens when an overworked diaphragm begins to spasm.

These two heavyweight hormones that control body fat percentage are trading body blows.

This is yet another body blow to the Atkin's diet.

The film jabs and hooks you with a flurry of laughs that have the force and frequency of little body blows.

So when the 32 - year - old actress pulls up to Jan De Bont's bank - breaking house of mock - horrors (a k a «The Haunting») in a dusty yellow Gremlin, it's obvious Taylor has elected to deal her career - hallmarked by furious spins in «I Shot Andy Warhol» and «Girlstown» - a big - budget body blow.

We'll talk about the bridge - and - tunnel car wreck that is Joseph Gordon - Levitt's Don Jon's Addiction in a second, but to suffer through three - in - a-row body blows like that is against every statute in the Geneva Convention regarding humane treatment.

Violence: Frequent violent altercations with fists, body blows, guns, bombs and other weapons occur throughout this film.

Former stuntman Chad Stahelski is back in the director's chair, and he knows his craft inside out: Every body blow lands hard, every gunshot roars like thunder.

The most common body blows can now be executed without the lean modifier.

Instead, Stahelski opts to capture the rhythm of action in camera, timing gunshots and body blows to create a bracing, percussive soundscape.

It was another body blow to education.