Sentence examples for extraordinary blow from inspiring English sources

"It's an extraordinary blow out," Canstar's head of research, Stephen Mickenbecker, said.

As a result of that difference the gap between the developed and developing worlds narrowed quickly.This burst of growth struck an extraordinary blow against deprivation.

The markets are responding to the extraordinary blow of the terrorist attacks, and the painful impact of that blow on American confidence and optimism will eventually dissipate.

But those are minor irritants compared with the extraordinary blow delivered this month to two pharmaceutical giants by Apotex, a rising drugs star of the north.France's Sanofi-Aventis and America's Bristol-Myers Squibb BMSS) jointly market Plavix, a drug that inhibits blood platelets from sticking together to form clots, thus helping to prevent heart attacks and strokes.

Recent statistics show 47% of Chinese millionaires plan to leave, mainly to escape economic uncertainty and environmental decay, but Ma departing would be an extraordinary blow to China's self-image as an emerging global player – he is its greatest rags-to-riches hero, an inspiration to a generation of budding entrepreneurs.

"Two of them in quick succession is potentially an extraordinary blow to the ability of working people to defend their interests," Craig Becker, general counsel to the AFL CIO the umbrella labor organization that includes VICE writers and editors like myself told me in an interview.

Laden with heavy weaponry the AC-130 gunships were ready, the 1st Squadron of the 4th Cavalry was poised for attack and, sitting in front of their computer screens, US intelligence officers were about to record an extraordinary blow-by-blow account of the biggest US offensive since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.

Nearly $5 billion in development projects in New York City have been delayed or canceled because of the economic crisis, an extraordinary body blow to an industry that last year provided 130,000 unionized jobs, according to numbers tracked by a local trade group.

Green Party: Hand-blown from recycled glass at Esque's wind-powered workshop in Portland, Ore., the double peaks of this punch bowl display extraordinary glass-blowing skill, $840.

During the statement, the SNP leader said that if the UK was indeed heading for a "hard Brexit" outside the single market, this could compound the "extraordinary, self-inflicted blow to the UK's competitiveness".

Mordechai Vanunu is still prevented from leaving his country and subjected to extraordinary restrictions for blowing the whistle on Israel's nuclear weapons in 1986.