Sentence examples for an expected blow from inspiring English sources

Merck The regulatory rebuff is an expected blow for Merck.

Hence, it is a lot easier to rationalize a blow-out victory when you predict a close race than it is to be wrong if an expected blow-out doesn't happen.

Moderates were annoyed by the ejection of Nick Hurd, Greg Barker and Damian Green from their responsibilities for civil society, climate change and policing; the loss of the septuagenarian Ken Clarke was a bigger, though expected, blow (see Bagehot).

And then: Just as the anger and hostility was reaching a crescendo peak, just as I was wincing from the expected blow of a baton coming down on my head, I felt a blast of energy sweep from the front of the vast room, where those who had cleared security already were waiting, and over us into the crowd, as if a lightning bolt had struck and the electricity had surged through the room.

Their wary opponents are manoeuvring to soften the expected blow.

That would soften the expected blow of the current $9 billion gap.

And there he confessed the deed, baring his chest for the expected blow.

Defending race champion Sebastian Vettel's long season took another expected blow when the FIA ruled he will have to start Sunday's race from pit lane because he will have to use a new, sixth power unit in his engine, breaking the limit of five.

Yes, over that span stocks have, as one would expect, blown away bonds in the best of times.

Expect blown eardrums and partially naked men smothered in sweat.

The German chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, suffered an expected but still stinging political blow today when it was announced that German unemployment figures rose sharply in January, above the psychologically important four million total.