Sentence examples for knocked by from inspiring English sources

The US industrial average was knocked by record-breaking losses at insurer AIG.

Liverpool saw their initial offer of £24.6million knocked by Shakhtar and a subsequent increase to £28million was also rejected.

In particular, it was knocked by the lack of first-time home-buyers, who had been key customers for Comet.

A Robson corner was knocked by Andrew Considine into the path of the Aberdeen captain Russell Anderson.

Sometimes she found the wire pegs bent over, "presumably knocked by kangaroos," or picked up and dropped some distance away.

This grandly scaled and scrupulously realistic production has long been knocked by many critics and opera buffs.

"Wider business service sector confidence has meanwhile also been knocked by global economic worries and financial market jitters".

HR consultant Terry Coode always advises candidates whose confidence may have been knocked by a rejection to seek feedback.

Well, she would work "with anyone" with ideas for reviving town centres, but "when you get knocked by him consistently you just think, what's the problem?

Del Boy, the dodgy wheeler-dealer with a heart of gold, though knocked by life many times, never would stay down.

The cuts may well have provided a welcome economic stimulus at a time when confidence was knocked by recession and terrorist attack.