Sentences with phrase «second blow»

(Reuters)-- A Florida jury awarded punitive damages totaling $ 25 million on Monday in a second blow to Gawker, coming on top of the $ 115 million the online news outlet must pay for posting a sex tape of the former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan.

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.

The second blow was encountering a student body that was approximately 50 percent women and 50 percent black.

A second blow to deism came in the middle of the nineteenth century with Darwin's alternative explanation of the design of nature with its emphasis on chance and struggle rather than on beneficent design.

French Winemaker Cleared After Refusing to Spray Vineyard A French court has acquitted Thibault Liger - Belair after refusing to spray his vineyards against deadly vine disease flavescence dorée, in a second blow to the French authorities...

It was just the second blown save in 46 attempts for Jansen in 2017, including the postseason.

Before these symptoms have cleared, which may take minutes, hours, days or weeks, the athlete returns to competition and receives a second blow to the head.

The medical literature is very aware of Second Impact Syndrome (SIS) where a second blow on top of a previous head injury with continuing symptoms leads to a loss of regulation of cerebral blood flow resulting in brain swelling and herniation commonly resulting in death.

A second blow before full recovery is especially dangerous.

Farmers across New York are absorbing the second blow of a one - two punch that started last year with the worst drought in decades.

In a second blow to Mr Balls's hopes, it emerged yesterday that the party's ruling National Executive Committee is planning to curb the power of unions to pressgang their members into supporting specific candidates.

It was the second blow for Giuliani's campaign.

This problem would disappear if one impact tilted the planet to, say, 50 ° or so, and a second blow delivered an additional tilt of 48 °.

A second blow is that with the full genome sequence in hand, for Aquifex and a dozen other microbes, biologists can draw up family trees based on other genes besides the ribosomal RNA gene that provided the original map.

In a second blow to booksellers, Google closed its Partner Programme to focus on selling direct.

The second blow was Chase's introduction of the Sapphire Reserve coming on the heels of Citi's announcement of the upcoming changes.

The second blow the game delivers is in the form of its stunning visuals.

The first was exciting, but the second blew me away with its page after page of marbleized or spray - painted colors and patterns.

The second blow comes in the form of a threat that airlines will suffer under the tax.

And, in a second blow, because lowland tropical forests are already the warmest forests on Earth, there are no «replacement» species waiting in the wings to take over from the species that live there, as there are for many places at higher latitudes.

A second blow to disciples of the Paris Climate Accord was last week's Austrian election, Solomon argues, «which saw two conservative parties with no interest in climate change — it wasn't even an election issue — come in first and second, making them likely to form a pro-carbon coalition government.»

When they don't; those injured in accidents are dealt a second blow.

The «gig economy» has been dealt a second blow in the name of worker's rights, after the Court of Appeal ruled in favour of a plumber at Pimlico Plumbers (PP).

Hundreds of law firms seeking to renew their professional indemnity insurance (PII) have been dealt a second blow, after German insurer Berliner Versicherung indicated it may not be able to offer cover after all.

I was able to get to him before he landed a second blow.

The fear of regulations delivered the second blow to prices.