Sentences with phrase «body blow»

Sometimes, the intelligence of the human body blows my mind!

Maybe a knee - crushing strike that heavily damages said energy might be a solid plan or a powerful body blow.

Moments later, a viciously struck ball caught Giroud on his ankle and, albeit it looked anything but serious, has dealt a huge body blow for Arsenal, who already have a catalogue of injuries to take care of.

From the furore around Chris Ofili's Holy Virgin Mary during the Brooklyn iteration of the Sensation show in 1999, to last year's kerfuffle over Martin Kippenberger's crucified frog, displayed in Bolzano, Italy — in protest at which an Italian politician, Franz Pahl, went on hunger strike, describing the sculpture as «a grave offence to our Catholic population» — the Catholic church has taken more than its share of body blows in recent years.

It dealt a huge body blow to the EU.

Deals can potentially be sunk or be dealt a serious body blow if there is an unauthorized leak of information.

Thus, who's surprised the Gulf eco-system continues to absorb body blows?

For nearly an hour Roma threw faint body blows at Donetsk, giving them the vapors but in no way eliciting a knockout blow, but then Kevin Strootman, in the blink of an eye, flicked the ball with the outside of his boot and found Edin Dzeko streaking towards the goal.

and Apple has come back with a real body blow for Motorola on this one.

Prime Minister Theresa May landed a series body blows on the embattled leader during her first appearance at the weekly session as glum - faced Labour MPs looked on.

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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.

«We were hoping for a prize fight today,» Faldo summarized «but Rory's given himself too many body blows.»

The first three quarters felt like a heavyweight title fight, with both teams trading body blows and headshots and neither side letting up whatsoever.

After the demise of Marxism as an ideological force, and the severe body blows dealt to schemes of socialist «third ways» propounded by «prophetic» religion, the banner of choice is currently THE ENVIRONMENT.

After Norman showed real frailty by missing a 2 1/2 - foot putt for par on the 11th that squandered the final stroke of his lead, Faldo delivered a merciless body blow to his gasping adversary on the 155 - yard 12th by drilling a majestic seven - iron over Rae's Creek to within 15 feet.

Per Tessitore report, #mayweather camp concerned #Pacquiao cup would sit too high, negating body blows.

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.

But a few hours later — after the Senate Democrats and Koch delivered some verbal body blows to the Senate GOP — Skelos released a statement insisting he does indeed intend to keep his pledge.

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.

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.

His current life of walks on the beach, he notes, is much more pleasurable than locking horns with OMB and fending off political body blows from within NASA.

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.

In 2007, a diverse group of 26 researchers, led by nuclear chemist Richard Firestone of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, formally proposed what is known as the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, in which one or more extraterrestrial bodies blew up over North America, leading to widespread wildfires and strewing sun - blocking dust and debris across the globe.

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.

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

Harris was the enervating body blow setting up the denouement.

After the tremendous success of the first - generation Lexus LS, Toyota decided that a big sport coupe would be a good idea, something that would deliver additional body blows to their stunned German...

The A and B buttons control your left and right arms, with uppercuts and body blows selected by pressing up or down.

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

But after a session in which the prime minister dealt a real body blow to Ed Miliband, it's difficult to offer any other scoreline.

I'm fairly certain that Ultimate Body Blows is some kind of fighting game XD

Last week, labor unions took a series of body blows.

Hitting an opponents leg over and over again will cause him or her to limp, but on harder difficulties you won't want to waste time going into a clinch and a submission hold or locking up and going for a few body blows to drain energy permanently before exploiting your opponent's depleted stamina to go for a knock - out.

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

Then I'll highlight three major body blows that Big Oil has recently landed on King Coal.

«As a city, it was a huge body blow.»

Body blows from boomerangs, parasols, and robot birds.

«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 vulgarization of luxury brands has not only mortgaged a lot of shareholder value, it's also dealt a body blow to the very idea of middle - class ambition.

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).

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.