Sentences with phrase «damaging blow»

Monaco will be desperate to avoid losing another key first - team star having already seen Bernardo Silva leave for Manchester City while Tiemoue Bakayoko is set for Chelsea, and losing Lemar as well as Kylian Mbappe who has been dominating headlines this summer will be really damaging blows for coach Leonardo Jardim.

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The most damaging blow to Steele's re-election chances came from Gentry Collins, former political director at the RNC who penned a six - page letter denouncing the fundraising operation (among other things) at the committee.

Mr. Cuomo avoided what could have been a more damaging blow to his prestige, as his choice for lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul, a former congresswoman from Buffalo, soundly defeated Ms. Teachout's running mate, Tim Wu.

He was certainly not calm when Burnley were given that penalty though, and probably because he thought it would deal a very damaging blow to our title challenge.

The nature of their latest reversal, a 4 - 1 home defeat to Leicester City, is a hugely damaging blow for confidence and morale among the fans and players.

The cost finding is just the latest damaging blow to the badger cull programme.

A paragraph criticising MI5 from the ruling concerning Binyam Mohamed earlier this month has been published, in a further damaging blow to the government.

That move is now regarded as one of the most damaging blows to the effort to remove the prime minister — the moment it started to go wrong.

The idea that rescinding the invitation to Senator Johnston would underscore our values as an institution and community seems to me precisely backwards, as I can not think of a more damaging blow to an academic institution than to withdraw an invitation to an alumnus to speak because some disagree with the speaker's views.

With former Arsenal striker Marouane Chamakh an injury doubt for the game at Selhurst Park, our young French forward could well get a game and Palace have a great chance of causing Louis van Gaal and his expensively assembled squad another damaging blow in the challenge.

Moore took every round, but could never catch the back - pedaling Mexican long enough to land a damaging blow.

That is by no means an insurmountable obstacle but the fact that we would have inflicted another damaging blow to their confidence and morale would make a Tottenham title win extremely unlikely.

Losing Anthrop was a damaging blow, but you should be able to complete short passes with fewer mistakes.

However much of a blow our loss in Zagreb was, however, it is not necessarily a damaging blow, especially if the Gunners go out tonight and earn all three points against Olympiacos at the Emirates and put in an impressive performance.

Impact of relegation: A damaging blow for the club's American owners, who would have to face up to a big drop in finances outside the Premier League.

Aston Villa's miserable season suffered another damaging blow as a controversial penalty — converted by skipper Rickie Lambert — earned fellow strugglers Southampton a 1 - 0 victory at Villa Park.

Villa have an impressive head - to - head record with their Midland rivals and it's down to Gerard Houllier to inspire the Villa dressing room as relinquishing their mental stranglehold over Birmingham really would be a damaging blow, and also another new low for a club and it's supporters who aren't used to tasting so many defeats.

For we should be in no doubt, that if our collective endeavours in these negotiations were to prove insufficient to reach an agreement, it would be a failure in the eyes of history and a damaging blow to the future of our continent.

However, while this might appear to be a step in the right direction, many experts feel it is yet another damaging blow to children's confidence.

The traditional paper book industry may not be dying altogether but it has been dealt a damaging blow from the ebook industry.

Marie can deliver a damaging blow to the monster with magic, and when monster's life gone run out, you win!

Unfortunately, players being locked out of a game that's on Xbox Game Pass is a damaging blow for the service as a whole.

What with their poor handling of the MT series in the past and their abysmal handling of Mario Kart, this game's release is yet another damaging blow to BNAA's reputation.

«Controversial shock jock Alan Jones has been ordered to undergo «factual accuracy» training, and to use fact - checkers, in another damaging blow to his credibility.»

In a recent decision, the Ontario Court of Appeal struck a damaging blow to the province's Consumer Protection Act.

Negative feedback can provide a damaging blow to your ego, especially when it's from a prospective employer whose advertised position you so desperately wanted.