Sentences with phrase «decisive blow»

To him the stones are stones — physical realities that can be broken only by strong decisive blows.

From Carlson's view, it was the resulting liberation of lots and lots of women to be wage slaves just like men that struck a decisive blow against the big and stable American family.

Moreover the British Colonial system dealt a decisive blow to the growth of the Bhakti movement.

Matthew inserts an important bloc of material on defilement between the two feeding stories, 15:1 - 20, 15:11 is the key to the passage, and it is both a decisive blow against the external legalism of the Pharisees and an important passage for the field of Christian personal ethics.

This is a decisive blow against all legalism: things or places can not be unclean, only persons.

A skilful (commander) strikes a decisive blow, and stops.

In a 2003 essay on Hefner, Read Mercer Schuchardt delivers what should be a decisive blow to the romanticized view of Hefner's achievement:

When word gets around that these people are in a growth group, the «disturbed - persons» image will be dealt a decisive blow.

In Sunday's 5 - 3 victory, backup catcher Lenny Webster had the decisive blow, a two - run, 10th - inning homer.

All the decisive blows are struck lefthanded,» wrote the early 20th - century German philosopher Walter Benjamin.

Mexican side Tigres UANL could deliver a decisive blow to River Plate's Copa Libertadores ambitions with a win in their Group 6 tie on Wednesday night.

With Barca unbeaten after 18 league games and already nine points clear of Atletico Madrid at the top of the table, Simeone fears Coutinho's arrival could prove to be a decisive blow in the title race.

About 45 minutes after Yannick Ferreira Carrasco had applied what was probably the decisive blow to Arsenal's Champions League hopes, Per Mertesacker emerged from the home dressing room to front up to the media and discuss familiar failings in Arsène Wengers team.

The pass, they move and linkup in unison, giving defenses precious little time to react before striking a decisive blow; it's precisely the sort of direct attacking play Roma was lacking for much of the past year - and - a-half.

Fernando Torres provided the decisive blow and four years later became the first player to score in two EURO finals as Spain, now under Del Bosque, successfully defended their title.

Certainly oil prices and exports would have played their part but for him that was not the decisive blow, Chernobyl was it.

The defeat of the Blairite Tessa Jowell in the selection race for to be Labour's candidate for London mayor is a decisive blow against the Blairite faction of the party.

«In a related development, troops have also dealt another decisive blow to the Boko Haram terrorists at Buni Yadi general area yesterday day afternoon.

Enlargement, successive NO votes in EU - related referenda, and, most importantly, the decisive blow to «ever - closer union» landed by the eurozone crisis are changing the way Europe operates.

Analyzing all the layers of the immune system at once speeds design and may one day deal a decisive blow against HIV

«I love the mirrored symmetry of the males as they engage in their violently ritualized, almost choreographed, fighting; the male on the right of the shot fixing his rival with a gimlet eye as he looks to land a decisive blow.

New studies come and go and each of the groups wants to use them to finally settle the discussion, but so far no decisive blow has been struck.

Lethal League rewards split - second timing and reflexes more than it does knowledge of its character differences, bunts, and the angle of diagonal hits, which gives it a tense, entertaining atmosphere where anyone can land the final, decisive blow.

The manner in which these new controls handle are neither satisfying nor intuitive; for one thing, the heavy attacks can only be executed at the end of a basic combo string (such as hitting the punch button a few times followed by holding down the right trigger and hitting the button once more), yet most enemies will be knocked onto the floor before you can even hit them with the decisive blow.

I've had growing doubts about my multi-generational thesis for awhile, but the decisive blow against it was struck by this post at Adam Smith Esq. wherein Bruce MacEwen and Janet Stanton tick off all the reasons why the average law firm apparently stays in business only 40 years:

The Vivo V5 is a step up from its predecessor but fails to strike a decisive blow against the competition.

That is a decisive blow to other phablets out there, too.

All the decisive blows are struck left - handed.»