Sentence examples for a powerful blow from inspiring English sources

By refusing to confirm, the Senate could have struck a powerful blow against unchecked executive power and the use of torture.

Not without serious illness or a powerful blow to the brain, that is.

Mr Foley has landed a powerful blow on the only strong Republican pillar remaining: social conservatives.

Opposition MP Mansur al Zindani complained of a "powerful blow to parliament and the public".

This is a powerful blow against alienation, and an optimistic sign that another world is possible.

"Once again we must confront a powerful blow from nature," Bachelet told the nation.

Among them, he can slow or stop time; he can summon a swarm of rats to devour his foes or a powerful gust of wind to blow them off ledges; he can inhabit the bodies of fish and rats; and he can possess other people and briefly control them.

In flashback form we saw Stoddart, freshly coked up, attempt to help him, only for Liam to deliver a surprisingly powerful blow to the professor's head with a chopping board.

In Arizona, which faced a particularly powerful blow to its finances in the form of a sustained plunge in housing prices, the welfare caseload dropped by 48percentt during that timeframe.

Madalena watched with gratification how expertly the killer at the front of the line wielded the monstrous instrument, felling each person with a single powerful blow as the club swung without interruption.

The animal did however appear to some, but not others, to be mildly sedated, exhibiting less forceful surfacings, and exhaling before the blowhole was clear of the water with a less powerful blow.