Sentences with phrase «decision as a blow»

Many across the Southern Tier saw both decisions as a blow to economic development.

Scott Segal of Bracewell Giuliani, a lobbying group representing utilities, refiners, cement companies and manufacturers, tried to cast the decision as a blow against the struggling economy in an e-mail:

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The decision may be a blow to the Republican Party's fundraising as it gears up for midterm elections in November with an unpopular president as its standard - bearer.

The RBI's decision could deal a death blow to India - based exchanges that facilitate trade in cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and ethereum as people won't be able to use money in their bank accounts or digital wallets to buy or sell these virtual assets.

The weekend decision to strip $ 5.8 bn from the savings accounts of Cypriot banking customers has blown a hole in the EU's ambitious reforms billed as the route out of the eurozone crisis, while potentially undermining a growing reliance at banks around the world on funding their operations with customer deposits.

Trump's decision comes as a second blow to Chinese - backed deals, which fell by 49 % in the first half of 2017 from the same period a year earlier, to $ 64.2 billion, according to Thomson Reuters.

As Compton carefully explains, the court's rulings on moral reform did not lead directly to the New Deal decisions that dealt the final blow to constitutional limitations on federal power.

as my own church commmunity has been hit with the blow of several key members leaving over a disagreement, and i'd like to say, an issue of «churchism» vs. «non-churchism», i feel keenly the decision you have made in your case is a correct one.

See also Maggie Lu Yueyang, «Regulator overturns ban on AGL's MacGen buy» (Business Spectator, 25 June 2014), Anthony Klan and Andrew White, «Watchdog warns of energy price rise as AGL deal gets nod» (The Australian, 26 June 2014) and John Durie, «Panel's decision a huge blow to Sims» (The Australian, 26 June 2014)

As a result, he highlighted that the Glanbia decision represented a «significant blow» to farmer confidence as they headed into Q2 and peak production monthAs a result, he highlighted that the Glanbia decision represented a «significant blow» to farmer confidence as they headed into Q2 and peak production monthas they headed into Q2 and peak production months.

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Glenn Hoddle then added to that by claiming Wilshere had been making bad decisions in the previous encounter, coming as a further blow to his chances of appearing tonight.

What irked tournament administrators was Woods's decision to blow off a Thursday dinner at which he would have received the Fred Haskins award as the collegiate golfer of the year.

First was the disallowed goal, second the second yellow card to the defender was not warranted as the challenge was not dangerous and Chicharito was going nowhere with the ball; and lastly his decision to stop blowing the whistle to end the match to allow Man United to create a chance to score third goal.

The Nigerian's decision to play at Rio 2016 is likely to come as a blow for manager Arsene Wenger, but he can take solace in the fact that he will not have to feature in the African Cup of Nations at the start of 2017, after his side were eliminated in qualification in previous weeks.

Man Utd transfer news: Man City to enter battle for # 63m La Liga star Ilkay Gundogan update: Arsenal and Man Utd blow as German midfielder makes HUGE future decision

However, after the 31 - year - old took a heavy blow to the hip in his side's 2 - 1 win over Bordeaux on Saturday, it's claimed that the club are racing to get him fit in time and will have to make a late decision on whether or not he's able to start, as per ESPN FC.

A correct decision, admittedly, but exasperating all the same as the whistle blew on an unbelievable game of football.

Interestingly, just days before the NFL's decision to suspend the use of impact sensors was announced, my local paper, The Boston Globe, came out with a powerful editorial in which it urged college, high school, and recreational leagues in contact and collision sports to consider mandating use of impact sensors, or, at the very least, experimenting with the technology, to alert the sideline personnel to hits that might cause concussion, and to track data on repetitive head impacts, which, a growing body of peer - reviewed evidence suggests, may result, over time, in just as much, if not more, damage to an athlete's brain, as a single concussive blow, and may even predispose an athlete to concussion.

Some decisions over the past twelve months like quitting international agreements, banning immigrants from specific religious - national groups and employing harsh rhetoric against allies are rightly regarded as diplomatic blows to the American image in the world.

Sen. Roy McDonald's decision not to campaign on the Independence Party line through November is a particular blow to Republican same - sex marriage supporters, who just this morning released a poll paid for by New York Unity PAC that found the senator could have won the general election even as a minor party candidate with a single ballot line.

Business groups still bemoan that decision as a devastating blow to the state's economy, particularly in the struggling Southern Tier.

The decision to agree the # 1.4 billion scheme overseas was followed by 1,000 job losses at the Bombardier plant and was described as a «death blow to Derby's economy».

The decision is a major blow to the energy industry as its looks for new routes to ship heavy crude from Western Canada.

But his decision to take up this role as a coup for the Conservatives and a severe blow to Labour's remaining credibility with centre - ground voters.

The double blow was dismissed at the time as a protest vote, and the decision of the electorate, with a 29.2 % swing to Labour from People's Voice, five years later would seem to support that.

Ford's decision will come as a devastating blow to 1100 Ford workers set to lose their jobs, with more put at risk in their supply chain too

The shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna has described the decision by Ford to cut as many as 1,400 jobs in the UK as a «devastating blow».

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sought to foment that feeling Monday, distributing a memo that described the Supreme Court decision as «another blow to indicted, former Republican Leader Tom DeLay and national Republicans.»

The back to back bombshells of abuse allegations against New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and President Donald Trump's decision to leave the Iran nuclear agreement dealt a tough blow today to Amy Spitalnick, who before signing on as press secretary for Schneiderman worked for nuclear deal advocate group J Street.

«We hope that this method will be developed into a clinical tool for club physicians and others in sports medicine, and is used as a basis for the decision on how long the player should rest after a blow to the head,» says Henrik Zetterberg.

Somewhere along the line, Nintendo Co. Ltd. reckoned there was enough to Intelligent Systems» collection of 16 mini-games to turn it into its own full - blown and nearly full - priced ($ 39.99) retail game... As it turns out, this may have been a questionable decision.

Citizenfour — the documentary that follows Edward Snowden as he makes the decision to blow the whistle on the illegal and immoral activities of the NSA that ignored the constitutionally guaranteed rights of not only every citizen of the United States but a substantial portion of the rest of the world.

On the way to the heist, the player is offered decisions on how best to tackle it, with those decisions expanding after the action begins to unfold, such as the choice to blow the bank's safes open or crack them.

The piece quoted me again as saying that KIPP's decision not to blow up the classroom and «use blended learning to do what they do better... is smart.

The Vergara decision, striking down tenure and dismissal laws in California as depriving the state's most vulnerable students equal access to a quality education, was widely seen as a blow to the teachers union and has moved public opinion toward agreeing with change.

Media observers have described Blow's decision to publicise the fact that he can't be bothered to get up to piss as «a pretty weird marketing strategy» but say that it «plays well with the quirky artist crowd».

In a decision that strikes a blow against the federal government's controversial practice of excluding industry from consent decrees with environmental citizen groups, a practice known as «sue - and - settle,» the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned the district court's approval of a consent decree between a coalition of environmental groups and several federal agencies in Conservation Northwest v. Sherman, No. 11 - 35729 (9th Cir.

As CNET News reports, he testified yesterday before the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet that the CRB's decision «represents a body blow to many nascent Internet radio broadcasters.»

As a firm blow to airlines trying to dodge the Sturgeon decision, AG Bot's opinion in the joined cases C - 581 / 10 and C - 629 / 10 has already been called a «Luxembourgian punch on the nose» and «a kick in the Bot».

The ICO ban initiated by China dealt a major blow to the cryptocurrency market, with ether prices plunging as much as 30 % in the days following the decision.

The Solana Highlands planned reconstruction project suffered what might be a killing blow on Oct. 20 when the city «s View Assessment Commission made a unanimous decision to refuse the issuing of a development structure permit as well as a development review permit.

Chase the thrill of cheap (and inferior) properties — It never fails to blow my mind that most investors I meet think of themselves as long term investors and yet they make investing decisions based on short term factors.