Sentence examples for minor blows from inspiring English sources

Repeated concussions are tied to brain damage, and some evidence suggests that even minor blows can cause lasting damage.

The absence of Gayle and Mitrovic, both having suffered minor blows to the head during the League Cup win against Cheltenham on Tuesday, has frustrated Benítez.

"We pad their world in every possible way, we pamper them from the beginning," alleges Swedish psychiatrist Dr David Eberhard, who argues this parental sweeping has led to a generation of mollycoddled subadults who are psychologically knocked out by relatively minor blows such as the death of a dog or a boss telling them off.

Medical experts are also concerned about the consequences of repeated, more minor blows to the head, which might not cause concussion but all together can produce permanent, sometimes devastating damage.

In the past 10 years, the widely reported suicides and accidental deaths of professional football players and other athletes such as that of Junior Seau earlier this month -- have sparked inquiries into whether even seemingly minor blows to the head can cause personality changes, dementia, and brain degeneration later in life.

Michael Harrison, the editor and publisher of Talkers magazine, called the development a "minor blow" to the Mets.

I swear, some girl I would never in a million years have ever returned to for even a minor blow-job".

France suffered a minor blow on Wednesday as two of its biggest banks, Société Générale and Crédit Agricole, were each downgraded a notch by Moody's Investors Service — a move expected, but not as severe as some had predicted.

That was a minor blow to the municipal market, which was anticipating an increase in demand if the marginal tax brackets for higher-income households had been allowed to rise in 2011.

They also discussed the possibility of having a transmitter in the helmet of every player — to record every major and minor blow to the head to get a gauge of the cumulative effect.

"She discovers this note, this note from this girl, which to this day I cannot for the life of me remember," says Ames. "Some girl I would never in a million years have ever returned to for even a minor blow job".