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"body blow" Definitions
  1. something which has damaging effects on somebody/something, creating problems or causing somebody to be very disappointed

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Jose, sitting ringside, is battling the ultimate body blow -- cancer.
Irish Nationalists feel they are suffering a double body blow.
Evolution, by contrast, is a body blow to evangelical Christians' worldview.
That hope took a body blow in the past two weeks.
Going forward, this will be a body blow to Japanese shares.
Trump has already dealt a body blow to the political process.
Losing this revenue would deliver a body blow to hard-working families.
OUR COUNTRY HAS RECOVERED REALLY QUITE SUBSTANTIALLY FROM WHAT WAS A BODY-BLOW.
But Christians (like me) experienced the fire as a kind of body blow.
He also said the news of Washington's death was an emotional body blow.
The aviation industry has taken a body blow since the coronavirus has spread.
A Cabán victory would be another body blow for Queens Democrats, who saw Rep.
S. trade war would deal a body blow to Chinese exports and its economy.
The crisis has been a body blow to the American oil and gas industry.
"It's a body blow," pollster Frank Graves of EKOS Research said in an interview.
It will go a long way to cushion the economic body blow from COVID-19.
Retaking Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, would be a body blow to the Islamic State.
Civil rights groups have dubbed the ISC report a "serious body blow" to the draft bill.
But the loss of Iraq's second-largest city is a grave body blow to Islamic State.
In spite of the settlement's size, it did not represent a body blow to the bank.
Cam Newton delivered the body blow, and Jonathan Stewart provided the knockout punch for host Carolina.
"Today's Boeing announcement is a body blow to its workers and the region's economy," said Rep.
But Uncle Joe just received what could be a serious body blow in the Palmetto State.
"We are not going to see a body blow to the TIPS market," Western Asset's Marki said.
The surge left hundreds of Americans dead but failed to deal a body blow to the Taliban.
The attacks could deal a body blow to one of Asia's most fragile economies, an economist says.
The next body blow came to Cambridge Analytica, with the company suspending its CEO on March 20, 2018.
If Biden slips to third or even fourth place, that could be a body blow to his campaign.
His death was a body blow for his comrades and residents of those cities he had helped liberate.
Banning the latter from FetLife deals a body blow to the kink community who flock to the site.
For once again, it has fallen to you to hold Europe together after the body blow of Brexit.
Woodstock 50 has taken another body blow ... Jay-Z and John Fogerty are pulling the plug on the festival.
And a body blow to the tax and spend politics that have driven our more corrupt and failed cities.
For Trump, the intervention of federal judges blocking his executive order was a body blow to his presidential authority.
Homeowners affected by Hurricanes Irma and Harvey have already absorbed a body blow from damaged homes and lost possessions.
New York (CNN Business)The American economy is already absorbing a body blow from the deepening US-China trade war.
The one body blow Trinaldo snuck in saw Lee dive for a poor shot and give up the front headlock.
Hong Kong (CNN Business)A series of deadly attacks could deal a body blow to one of Asia's fragile economies.
So the Yankees are left to absorb a body blow when a 40-year-old designated hitter falls to injury.
Overall the sense was of two aging contenders swinging, whiffing, and landing an occasional body blow in round after round.
This is a body blow for middle-class taxpayers in high-tax states like California, New Jersey and New York.
Russia has suffered a body blow to its intelligence collection capacity in the U.S. and may not want to lose more.
"Trump's repudiation of the WTO could prove a body blow to the rules underpinning the global trading system," Prasad tells me.
Airlines oppose this because of the body blow it would deal their industry, according to four sources familiar with the discussions.
Ms. Garanca's Octavian, looking as if he had absorbed a body blow, delivered a teary-eyed, bewildered yet self-absorbed response.
Her third-place Iowa finish and a disappointing fourth in New Hampshire, in her home state's backyard, was a body blow.
Should a scandal turn Steve Bannon and Breitbart toxic, is there any doubt that their movement would suffer a body blow?
THE rise of Donald Trump has been a body-blow to all those who believe that free trade is a good thing.
And in 1972, Hurricane Agnes delivered a body blow to the local economy when it flooded downtown with nine feet of water.
To put it mildly, this is a body-blow to the credibility of the Holy See's efforts in this desperately important area.
Every day yields another body blow to the cause of golf in the Olympic Games and what it was meant to accomplish.
But it would also be a body blow to the rule of law in America, and it would trigger a Constitutional crisis.
But around the time, the technology faced its second major setback, this time closer to a body blow than a mere stumble.
Taking back the city would deal ISIS a body blow militarily while also making its messages of strength and power ring hollow.
May's leadership, with those opposed to Brexit judging the loss of Mr. Rogers and his expertise a body blow to the country's future.
The price of oil is still a fraction of its all-time high, dealing a body blow to the states that depend on it.
"This is yet another body blow for the UK's automotive supply chain and the wider car industry," Unite assistant general secretary Tony Burke said.
Nihon University professor Tomoaki Iwai said Yanase's testimony was neither a body-blow for Abe, nor would if dispel voters' suspicions about his behavior.
Matthew Goodman of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, a think-tank, considers its collapse a "body blow" to American economic policy in Asia.
Anything that reduces that, particularly for people who can't afford alternatives, is a body blow to the basic democratic principles that the library stands for.
If that were to happen, the already faltering European and Japanese economies would be dealt a severe body blow that would propel the dollar higher.
The lessons will not be lost on continental Europe's populist parties, who hailed Trump's victory on Wednesday as a body blow for the political mainstream.
Failure to address the debt ceiling would result in a U.S. debt default and could be a body blow to financial markets and the economy.
So, as we look to 2019, it's important to stay focused on landing a body blow against the Islamic State's remnants in Iraq and Syria.
U.S. Ambassador Kelly Craft blasted the resolution as "watered down" and a "body blow" to the Council's credibility, according to the U.N.'s news agency.
It's a body blow for an organization that Phil Hogan, the European trade commissioner, says is "facing its deepest crisis since its creation," in 213.
" The organization's national officer for the automotive sector, Des Quinn, added that "this would be a shattering body blow at the heart of U.K. manufacturing.
DS Economics founder and CEO Diane Swonk called the report a "body blow" to the Fed that sent a clear message: Don't raise rates in June.
That was a body blow that many sides might have struggled to recover from, especially one drawn from one of the youngest squads in the tournament.
US intelligence agencies warn against using Huawei phones Another body blow came in February, when US intelligence agencies said that American citizens shouldn't use Huawei phones.
Needless to add, such tariffs would deal a severe body blow to a weak European economy in general and to a struggling German economy in particular.
The special counsel's first charges in the Russia investigation did not implicate President Trump directly, but collectively amounted to a political body blow to his administration.
The corporate class isn't going to wait until November — it is acting now, and its allies on the Supreme Court have dealt labor another body blow.
Despite that body blow, which he accepted with impressive sportsmanship, Massa's home record makes him more successful in Brazil than multiple world champions Senna, Piquet and Fittipaldi.
A less market-friendly and confrontational Mexican president must be expected to deal a body blow to both domestic and foreign investor confidence in the Mexican economy.
Instead, to use a boxing metaphor, the film is more like a body blow: You don't really feel it at first, but later, it's stayed with you.
That could be a huge body blow to the U.S. oil sector, with companies that are cash-strapped facing sharper cutbacks and even bankruptcies and forced mergers.
"The coronavirus has been a body blow to the Chinese economy, which now threatens to take out the entire global economy," he wrote in a research note.
Yet the Red Sox merely split the games — a 6-1 win, then a 5-183 loss — at a point when every defeat is a body blow.
But if they can't deliver, it may be a body blow that forever damages the group's reach and prominence as a credible force in the House's right flank.
Oklahoma is among several states impacted by falling oil prices, which dealt a body blow to the state's Economy ranking — it falls 30 places from a year ago.
It was very difficult to believe at first but when it became very clear that this was the case, it was a body blow for all of us.
The left, in disarray in many countries, suffered a body-blow in Israel because its attempt to negotiate a land-for-peace deal with Palestinians collapsed into bloodshed.
The Trump administration was dealt a body-blow late last month when the House of Representatives failed to even put an Obamacare replacement bill on the voting floor.
There was also the emotional body blow of a high-profile split with former world number one golfer Rory McIlroy who she was due to marry in 2014.
Rubio suffered a body blow with his likely fifth-place finish, an outcome that also delays the prospect of anyone becoming the chosen candidate of the GOP establishment.
The good news is that even taking all these negatives together, they don't come close to the body blow the world economy took from the 2008 financial crisis.
" Zippy Duvall, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, said China's exit is a "body blow to thousands of farmers and ranchers who are already struggling to get by.
The bearish-bond and bullish-bank trades have both diminished since November, and on Tuesday investors delivered a body blow to U.S. stocks and fled to safe-haven bonds.
Hurricane Harvey has delivered a body blow to Houston, but the damage will ultimately pale in comparison to the near-knockout blow that Hurricane Katrina dealt to New Orleans.
It is also not going to prevent the coronavirus related fear of traveling from dealing a major body blow to Italy, whose economy relies so heavily on tourist revenues.
Also, don't forget that Paul Ryan has long pushed for the conversion of Medicare into an underfunded voucher scheme, which would be another body blow to retiree-heavy states.
But it's an even bigger body blow to Jeb Bush, who helped Haley raise money during her reelection in 2014 and has been actively campaigning for her endorsement for weeks.
Last year, when Iraqi security forces were struggling to oust Islamic State fighters from Mosul, fighters destroyed Al Hudba and the mosque, striking an emotional body blow to many Iraqis.
Or, maybe it is fair to say that our concept of America itself was a concoction, that it was always one solid body blow away from buckling at the knees.
Mr. Hong, 62, bills himself as the true representative of conservatives, who suffered a political body blow with Ms. Park's impeachment and have been looking for a new standard-bearer.
As the company revealed tampering of more products, the crisis has rippled through supply chains across the world in a body blow to Japan's reputation as a high-quality manufacturing destination.
This is partly the result of Democratic policy and electoral failures — the 2016 election was a body blow to standard-issue Democratic liberalism — but also a result of its ideological success.
"A significant improvement in sentiment among big manufacturers is unlikely because of the adverse impact of a strong yen - a real body blow," said Tsuyoshi Ueno, senior economist at NLI Research Institute.
With the French, German, Italian and U.K. economies all showing troubling signs of weakness, the last thing that Europe needs now is a body blow from a more restrictive U.S. trade policy.
By changing level properly on a body jab, so that the shoulder is level with the target (normally the solar plexus), the fighter gives up no reach in going for a body blow.
Moreover, New Hampshire could be a body blow to Rubio, the man once envisioned as his chief rival, should he finish below establishment competitors seen as lesser threats: John Kasich or Chris Christie.
To be sure, authorities are keen not to tap on the brakes too hard lest it deals a body blow to the economy which grew a solid 6.9 percent in the first quarter.
With the Affordable Care Act already weakened by the Trump administration, big drops in enrollment would deal yet another body blow to the law and wreak more havoc in the individual insurance market.
In fact, a punitive tariff on bourbon and other American whiskeys would be both a symbolic and a substantive body blow — a strike at a unique American product that is enormously popular overseas.
Trump's interview also aimed another body blow at Sessions, who the President has repeatedly criticized for recusing himself from the Russia investigation, given Sessions' previous role as a member of the President's campaign team.
Arsenal had two men sent off, Mikel walked too, but the upshot was that the North Londoners' concentration was broken and Mourinho had succeeded in delivering a body blow to Wenger's juvenile new wave.
This testimony comes a bit less than a year after Comey himself dealt a body blow to Clinton's electoral prospects by closing his investigation of her email setup with a highly unorthodox public bashing.
This is the worst-case scenario for both Xi and the market as it deals another body blow to the Chinese economy and increases fear among investors that the trade conflict will drag for longer.
After a long post-war dictatorship until the 1970s, and a slow economic emergence during the 80s and 1990s, the 2008 global recession was a body blow to the country, alongside Italy, Greece and Spain.
So, when President Trump proposes to balance a boost in defense spending by delivering a body blow to the non-defense side of the ledger, he is recklessly placing the nation's security at future risk.
Equivalent to the Trump-Putin meeting, the Trump-Kim summit was a monumental victory for the North Korean leadership, a clear loss for America and its allies, and a body blow to America's national interests.
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil and gold were the clear winners for investors in a tumultuous first half year in markets, with Shanghai A shares the standout losers and euro zone stocks dealt a body blow by Brexit.
It does seems counterintuitive that in an election that has been defined by a rejection of the Republican establishment, the man to deliver a body blow to Trump would be a symbol of the GOP elite.
A bitter trade dispute between the United States and major economies, including Japan's big export market China, has unnerved investors and policy makers worried the tariff spat could deal a body blow to the global economy.
In some ways this is possibly the worst time to start shouting about fast marathon times with Kenya's Rio Olympic and London marathon champion Jemima Sumgong's recent positive doping test landing a body blow to the event.
The move is a body blow to state-run banks already reeling under bad loans and large trading losses following a rise of more than 50 basis points in yields since the fiscal year started in April.
Our White House correspondent writes that Monday's indictments of Paul Manafort, above, Mr. Trump's former campaign manager, and a business associate amounted to a political body blow to the president, even though they did not implicate him.
But the U.S. ban has dealt a body blow to sales outside of China, with Huaweis market share in Europe sliding to 19.3% in the second quarter from 24.9% in the first, figures from Counterpoint Research show.
It would also heighten the risk that Trump might follow through on his threat to impose a 25 percent import tariff on European automobiles, which would deliver a serious body blow to an already weak European economy.
Paltrow claims she was enjoying skiing lessons with her family at the Deer Valley Resort in Park City, Utah when Sanderson "plowed into her back" which caused her to sustain a full "body blow," according to her lawsuit.
Such a body blow to global confidence could well prevent the Federal Reserve from raising interest rates as planned this year, and might even provoke a new round of emergency policy easing from all the major central banks.
But another brutal body blow in the eighth game of the decider left Mahut writhing in pain on the green turf and Cabal and Farah showed little sympathy as they pounced to break for a 5-3 lead.
Our White House correspondent writes that yesterday's indictments of Paul Manafort, President Trump's former campaign manager, and his business associate, Rick Gates, amounted to a political body blow to Mr. Trump, even if they did not implicate him.
Canyon Bridge was launched with a focus on acquiring technology investments, but President Donald Trump on Wednesday dealt a body blow to its ambitions, blocking its first deal, a planned $1.3 billion acquisition of chipmaker Lattice Semiconductor Corp.
Russian consumers responded to the slowdown by cutting their biggest item of discretionary spending, and for most people that meant putting off buying a new car; a body blow for a city where car-making underpins the local economy.
"When we opened last year some neighbours considered the fights a disturbance, but they got used to them," Bao says as I try and fail to land a body blow on him with my wooden sword before saying farewell.
Khamenei has personal representatives in each of Iran's 2628 Provinces and this latest appointment reinforces the view that the Iranian regime regards Syria as its 28500nd Province, the defeat of which would be a major body blow to Tehran.
But we can celebrate the troops' homecoming without deluding ourselves about what the agreement is — a U.S. bow to the Taliban and a body blow to millions of Afghan women, whose brutal oppression remains a hallmark of Taliban rule.
In the coming weeks, the Supreme Court will rule on a case, propelled by years of conservative philanthropy, that could end mandatory fees for public-sector unions in more than 20 states, dealing a body blow to union coffers.
The fact that Maguire is now trying to usurp Atkinson's sole authority to determine whether this whistleblower's complaint is both credible and matter of urgent concern "is a body blow to the intelligence community inspector general's independence," McCullough added.
To do it, they had to overcome a three-games-to-one deficit against another luckless franchise, the Cleveland Indians, and a final body blow from Rajai Davis, who tied Game 2348 with a laser-beam homer in the eighth inning.
Because breaking up US technology giants without a sufficient analysis of both the national and international implications of this step could deal a body blow to American prosperity and global power in the 21st century, extreme caution is in order.
"China's announcement that it will not buy any agricultural products from the United States is a body blow to thousands of farmers and ranchers who are already struggling to get by," American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall told Bloomberg.
They delivered a reminder of that on Thursday night, absorbing the body blow of a Giancarlo Stanton grand slam, then tearing into the meat of the Yankees' bullpen for an emphatic 43-24 victory that clinched the American League East title.
Here's what you need to know: • The first charges in the investigation by Robert Mueller into Russian ties to the Trump campaign did not implicate the president but "collectively amounted to a political body blow," our chief White House correspondent writes.
But economists on both sides of the political spectrum say the move will deal a body-blow to the U.S. economy, reducing output and making it even tougher to find workers in an already tight labor market, without aiding Americans.
The real lesson of Friday's body blow is one that has been taught yet unlearned again and again over many years: Congress's liberal-to-moderate Republicans continually threaten the party's agenda, and reining them in is a long-overdue imperative.
Twinning a rate hike with looser mortgage rules highlights a major policy dilemma: while Indonesia needs to be competing for funds internationally, it is also wary that higher interest rates may deal a body blow to already subdued domestic demand.
January's shocking drop in retail sales looks like there was a body blow to the consumer, but economists say it is likely a temporary hit and the positive impact of the tax bill should more than make up for it.
POPULISTS DEAL BODY-BLOW TO EU Anti-establishment candidates are on strong footings ahead of spring elections in the Netherlands and France, and victories for them could strike a critical blow to a European Union already weakened by Britain's vote to leave.
As for Eliza, she delivers a body blow to Romeo when she suggests that maybe she doesn't want to move to the U.K., which he considers an insult after all the work he's put into her education since she was a girl.
Warren's third-place Iowa finish behind Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders undercut any chance she had to bounce back in the race, and a dismal fourth-place finish in New Hampshire, a state neighboring her own, was an even more severe body blow.
President Donald Trump's acquittal in the Senate impeachment trial won't just serve as an indictment of the American political system, it will also deal a body blow to US foreign policy efforts to curb global corruption and promote the rule of the law.
Ten U.N.C. players, including the starting five and the leaders in minutes played, were on last year's team, which lost the title game to Villanova on a body-blow buzzer-beater by Kris Jenkins, the adoptive brother of U.N.C.'s own Nate Britt.
The tourist industry, which adds about $30 billion to gross domestic product in a usual year, has been dealt a body blow by a spate of bombings this year, including an attack on Istanbul's main airport, and a failed coup in July.
No guillotines to dissuade the takedown attempts of an opponent, no triangles to distract his man and allow him to scramble up, and no hunting for a downed opponent's neck to open the chance for a good punch or body blow on the ground.
A vote for independence would end the 300-year-old union between Scotland and England, its far more populous southern neighbor, dealing a body blow to the UK at a time when it is likely to still be dealing with the fallout from Brexit.
More than a year later, Mr. Dolan is still smarting from the eviscerating criticism (the film, with A-list French actors such as Marion Cotillard, is hard to watch, and it deals an emotional body blow, with characters who brutally turn on one another).
"Most of us in the trade business thought terminating Nafta would be quite a body blow, but what Trump is talking about now, shutting the southern border, would be catastrophic," said Gary Hufbauer, a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
"China's announcement that it will not buy any agricultural products from the United States is a body blow to thousands of farmers and ranchers who are already struggling to get by," Zippy Duvall, head of the American Farm Bureau Federation, said in a statement.
There's no guarantee the commission will act on this issue, and third parties like the WFP and Conservatives have argued such a change would be unlikely to hold up in court, but that they would certainly be dealt a body blow if fusion ended.
Top Republicans — including governors who convened an emergency conference call on Monday on which Trump was Topic A — expect the real estate mogul to carry as many as 10 states on Tuesday night, an outcome that would deal a body blow to Texas Sen.
At the same time, commodity export-dependent emerging market economies are being dealt a body blow by a Chinese induced decline in international commodity prices, while those economies reliant on Chinese tourism are being severely impacted by a generalized suspension of international flights to China.
A few hours after Wolff's first revelations came another body blow: the report last Thursday night by The New York Times that Trump, through his White House counsel Donald McGahn, had pressured Attorney General Jeff Sessions not to recuse himself in the Russia probe.
In other words, what is being called the worst terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11 and the worst mass shooting in the nation's history was also, quite literally, a body blow to the most abiding institutions in the LGBT world: our bars and clubs.
There were signs that a return to work with long-time coach Marian Vajda had reignited Djokovic's fire but he suffered another body blow when losing to Italian Marco Cecchinato on a damp claycourt in the French Open quarter-finals then angrily threatened to skip Wimbledon.
It's imperative that bold measures are adopted by the Federal Reserve in coordination with the world's other major central banks to prevent such pressures from leading to a U.S. and global credit crunch that would deliver another body blow to the weakened U.S. and global economies.
In her speech in San Diego last Thursday on Donald Trump's "dangerously incoherent" foreign policy, Hillary Clinton struck a decisive body blow against her presumptive Republican rival, putting him on the defensive and reassuring Democrats who feared that Clinton might not have the mettle to take on Trump.
And Democrats absorbed a huge body blow to renewing its Mueller-related investigation Friday when a federal appeals court rejected its effort to compel testimony from former White House counsel Don McGahn, a star witness in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Images of 5,000-plus students at the University of Iowa gathered for your opponent 48 hours before the Iowa caucuses hurt, but the real body blow comes when the same young, smart talent that fueled the data-driven Obama victories isn't interested in being a part of your operation.
"Essentially, this is just a gratuitous slap in the face, not a body blow," said Kate Cronin-Furman, a human rights lawyer and political scientist at the Harvard Kennedy School, who predicted that the election of Donald J. Trump as president of the United States would lead to more harm for the court.
The first charges filed by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, did not implicate Mr. Trump but collectively amounted to a political body blow to a president who has spent months insisting that Mr. Mueller's investigation was nothing more than a "witch hunt" based on a "hoax" invented by Democrats and the news media.
This would seem to be especially the case at a time that a highly indebted Italian economy is already, yet again, in recession; the French economy is on the cusp of recession in the wake of the disruptive "yellow-vest movement"; and the U.K. economy could soon be dealt a major body blow by a hard-Brexit.
" But despite a White House response at times peppered with misleading and obfuscating claims, Monday's developments propelled the investigation into a new and more dangerous phase for Mr. Trump and amounted to a political body blow to a president who has spent months insisting that the investigation was nothing more than a "witch hunt" based on a "hoax.
Officials in the attorney general's office said that the settlement with Gagosian was the largest it had reached in a case involving an art gallery, though for a business as successful and sprawling as Gagosian — with locations in major cities around the world and tens of millions of dollars in annual sales — the amount will not be a body blow.

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