Sentences with phrase «glancing blow»

Saints Row IV doesn't quite hit the nail on the head, but it definitely gives the thing a strong glancing blow on the way past.

It certainly seems to provide no protection, as the slightest glancing blow by any of the threats in the game's environment means certain and quite immediate death.

There's a certain jousting - like feel to it as you race past the bigger enemies and bosses time and again, swerving past them as you deal glancing blows, or deciding that now's the time to get really stuck in with the Wheelsaw.

Julius Caesar, after the first glancing blow, turned and asked his assailant «Vile Casca, what does this mean?»

As a result, most strikes are fatal, while glancing blows to the arms and legs leave your opponent significantly handicapped.

There may well have been some misogyny in the pastor's glancing blow, but the real issue for him was the perceived sexual immorality in all of the women's stories.

He didn't even get a good lick on him, but he was going at such a high rate of speed that even a glancing blow was enough to bring down the usually uber elusive Wilson.

Maybe a glancing blow here or there.

He lands a glancing blow with the same punch not long after.

It looked as though Coquelin had been caught with a glancing blow on the ankle as he writhed around on the floor, but the 24 - year - old eventually got back to his feet to complete a first half which ended 1 - 1.

«Haiti's population is about half that of New York City's metro area, yet even a glancing blow from Sandy carried a higher death toll in the Caribbean nation than did the direct hit on the Big Apple,» Kenny wrote.

Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron would have done exactly the same thing as Theresa May: Look a bit embarrassed, soak up the anger about being America's poodle, then issue the most anaemic, mealy - mouthed coded criticism that lands no more than a glancing blow.

The solar wind burst is expected to deliver only a «glancing blow» to Earth's magnetic field, but such currents can trip key transmission lines and damage transformers irreversibly

Gravitational interactions — from glancing blows to head - on collisions, tidal influencing, mergers, and galactic cannibalism — can be devastating to galaxies.

A massive burst of solar wind that erupted from the sun Tuesday is expected to deliver only a «glancing blow» to the Earth's vulnerable magnetic field, NASA officials said yesterday.

There are two ways to get more mass in orbit: a bigger impactor or a glancing blow rather than a direct hit.

The monstrous Andromeda galaxy and the Milky Way are destined to hit head - on, not in a glancing blow, new observations from the Hubble Space Telescope show.

But was it a head - on collision or a glancing blow?

Hit the cue ball, and sometimes it strikes only a glancing blow on your target, setting it into a spin instead of launching it across the table.

Had a Mars - size impact occurred, many small moons should have formed.e Also, the impactor's glancing blow would either be too slight to form our large Moon, or so violent that Earth would end up spinning too fast.f Besides, part of Earth's surface and mantle would have melted, but none of the indicators of that melting have been found.g Small particles splashed from Earth would have completely melted, allowing any water inside them to escape into the vacuum of space.

The CME did not travel directly toward Earth, but did connect with Earth's magnetic environment, or magnetosphere, with a glancing blow.

The simulations show that if a star gets a «glancing blow» from a black hole, it can survive the encounter and its magnetic field amplifies strongly, by a factor of about 30.

The skill and technique disparity is simply way too much and the bodybuilders only really land a couple of glancing blows, none of which seem to phase the Muay Thai guys.

As many have pointed out, McDonagh wrote this movie eight years ago, about a very specific kind of Southern dynamics that he himself has never experienced — especially not the racial dynamics, which he just about completely bungles with this movie's glancing blows.

Thus, while Quinn might have been a glancing blow to their interests, teachers unions are facing imminent direct attacks.

It was a glancing blow; a few microseconds later, it might have been much worse.

The global financial crisis dealt only a glancing blow to Canada compared to many other developed markets.

Rip was struck a glancing blow by a Land Rover two weeks before coming in and, although at the time he showed no ill effect, there is some neurological damage that is causing him to knuckle his hind right leg.

The Houser brothers initially gave us a Liberty City where a glancing blow from a cab driver or swift lane change would mess you up whether travelling at 50 m.p.h. or just 10.

The first big «screw you» is Selena's lack of inertia — even a glancing blow with a ledge bat will send her hurtling out of the players control.

Some news sites are reporting it that way (of course, the execrable Daily Mail uses the headline «Earth facing a mini-Ice Age «within ten years» due to rare drop in sunspot activity»; which isn't even within a glancing blow of reality).

Tampa mayor Bob Buckhorn said: «What we thought was going to be a punch in the face was a glancing blow.»

Any collision between a motorcycle and a bigger vehicle is a mismatch, so that even a glancing blow or low - speed impact can send the bike and its rider flying.

Often referring as a «glancing blow,» sideswipe accidents involve a bicycle being hit by another object, usually a moving motor vehicle, which often causes a lawfully riding bicyclist to fall into oncoming traffic.

But the office market is hoping to escape with only a glancing blow to vacancies and rents...