Sentence examples for a third blow from inspiring English sources

It is a third blow to a country still reeling from the one-two punch of Manuel's first landfall and Hurricane Ingrid on Mexico's eastern coast.

In a third blow, Jim McMahon, leader of Oldham Council, beat three leftwingers, among them Mohammed Azam, to be selected  as Labour's candidate in next month's Oldham West by-election.

And this is where they're dealt a third blow – as services are cut, as NHS budgets are cut, as Sure Start centres are closed down, and as facilities for pensioners are withdrawn.

Of the three missiles, two failed in flight, and a third blew up almost immediately.

Then, in March, came a second blow.

When the euro crisis dealt Spain a second blow in 2010, the banks' buffers had already been depleted.

After terrorism, war, SARS and the post-dotcom slowdown came a fifth blow in the form of jet-fuel prices.

The sole defense that one had against a ghūl was to strike it dead in one blow; a second blow would only bring it back to life again.

Four years later, after his career had suffered a second blow, those musicians attempted to give him a hand up.

"So this comes as a second blow, and I don't know how many hits we can take".

McDermott's commitment to Reading was a second blow to Wolves after Alan Curbishley rejected a second bid from them to become McCarthy's successor.