Sentence examples for in a sharp blow from inspiring English sources
In a sharp blow to America's postwar plans in Iraq, India refused today to send peacekeeping troops there.
A3 India Won't Send Troops to Iraq In a sharp blow to America's postwar plans in Iraq, India refused to send peacekeeping troops there.
In a sharp blow to Quebec's separatist movement, Lucien Bouchard, the provincial premier and the movement's most personable leader, unexpectedly announced his resignation today.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — In a sharp blow to Malawi's international standing, an agency of the American government on Tuesday froze a $350 million grant to the nation after antigovernment protests there last week left 19 people dead.
PAGE A19 FOCUS ON FATIGUE SYNDROME In a sharp blow to patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, two new studies published raised serious doubts about earlier reports that the disabling disease is linked to infection with XMRV, a poorly understood retrovirus.
In a sharp blow to the department, the draft report recommends that some internal disciplinary cases be prosecuted by the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the outside agency that investigates complaints of police abuse filed by civilians.
A few weeks later, the cancellation of the clinical trial that Joshua had been waiting to participate in came as a sharp blow.
Blow in and out with a sharp blow in order to fire the missile.
Nonetheless, the announcement by Mr. Condit in Washington, D.C., was a sharp blow to Seattle's psyche and prestige, as stunning, say, as General Motors pulling out of Detroit or Coca-Cola abandoning Atlanta.
During the trial, in front of Sheriff Elizabeth Jarvie, property development worker Mr McCaig told the court he was drinking champagne with his sister and an old school friend at the bar of the club's VIP area when he was struck in the face with a "sharp blow", which left him bleeding.
Renewable energy also suffered a sharp blow in the United States in September with the bankruptcy of Solyndra, a once-promising solar energy venture in California that received $535 million in federal loans.
