Sentence examples for initial blow from inspiring English sources

Without him, the Bulls absorbed the Celtics' initial blow.

Every disaster has its second wave, the emotional scars that linger after the initial blow.

Last Monday, after the initial blow of Katrina, the idea of evacuation was not being considered, Mr. Amoss said.

Andersen was assessed a flagrant foul 1, for the initial blow to Hansbrough's shoulder, and a technical foul.

Kareem McKenzie delivered a fine initial blow to Matthews, but he ripped away from the block and spun behind Manning.

But because Mr. Estrada had apparently been knocked unconscious briefly and his vision blurred from the initial blow, his testimony was less detailed than Mr. Perez's.

As a result, Israel absorbed devastating initial blows both in the Sinai and on the Golan Heights before it turned the tide, with American help.

In addition, our results show the limits of a treatment based on the linearized equations, so that nonlinearities yield the initial blowing-up vibration of flutter to reach eventually a steady state.

This man's lawyers say he was then severely beaten: they allege that the initial blows, and their client's moans, can be heard faintly at the end of the video.

Grief, the initial body blow of loss, and mourning, the absorption of that blow, are unpredictable.

Such a war, he said, would be won by the nation best able to withstand an initial nuclear blow.