Because of the powerful blowing necessary to sound the pipes, the Greeks often tied a phorbeia (Latin: capistrum), or leather strap, across the cheeks for additional support.
Because of the blow to their self-esteem, some balding men simply settle when it comes to spouses, Mr. Kobren said.
I signed that petition because of the blow dealt to the New York arts community when the listings were eliminated.
Enron is bankrupt, and there is concern that Andersen will not survive because of the blow to its reputation.
Not surprisingly, partly because of the blow to its pride, the Iranian government rejected the offer of direct, high-level talks as insincere.
The Microsoft stock market miracle clearly ended this year, with the company's stock falling more than 50percentt, largely -- on the surface at least because of the blow dealt to the software publisher by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, who ruled in the federal antitrust lawsuit that Microsoft be broken into two separate companies.
He has lambasted the authorities, for example, for indulging the United States after the recent spy-plane collision, and he has questioned the 1989 massacre of student demonstrators at Tiananmen Square, not because of the blow to democracy but because it derailed a drive against an "unstoppable black tide" of corruption.
The power of the polling place has long held a fascination for Dr. Khan, a physician, Long Island mosque official and grass-roots Muslim political leader who has suddenly found himself in the spotlight because of the blows that two famous Senate candidates have been trading.
"Our belief is that because of the blow they suffered in Afghanistan, they left for a calmer place in Central Asia where they could resume operations — either to regroup or to even open up a new front," said Kadyr K. Malikov, director of the Independent Analytical Research Center for Religion, Law and Politics in Bishkek, the Kyrgyz capital.
Wilkinson, who had once appeared to be extremely doubtful because of the blow in Melbourne to his lower leg - he was sure at the time that he had broken it - showed how quickly young flesh heals by dancing outside Toutai Kefu to score.
