Sentence examples for severe knock from inspiring English sources

Borthwick suffered what the doctors described as "a severe knock to the head" which doesn't quite seem to do justice to the seriousness of the injury.

Friday would also see Latitude's reputation as a family festival take a severe knock with the news that a woman had been raped on site the previous evening.

François Hollande, their boss, who won the party's backing to say yes to the constitution in an internal vote, has taken a severe knock.

Faith and trust in parliament has taken a severe knock in the past year, but I do not believe people have lost their appetite for politics, or for the change it can bring.

Public trust took a severe knock last month, when the Cyprus government proposed raiding the savings of every bank account holder to meet the terms of a European bailout.

Britain's beleaguered heavy-industrial sector took a severe knock today when the Corus Group, a leading European steel maker, said it would cut 6,050 jobs, a fifth of its work force, mostly in regions of Britain already economically depressed by long declines in the coal, steel and shipbuilding businesses.

The steel crisis threatens severe knock-on effects, with jobs threatened throughout the supply chain for the industry.

Fears about a default are having severe knock-on effects on other emerging economies, such as Brazil (see article).

So widely were these silver coins used that interruptions in the production of silver in Mexico and Peru had a severe knock-on effect.

Dr Maureen Baker, chair of the RCGP, urged the Government to set aside more funding and that without it there would be a severe knock-on effect on the rest of the NHS.

If China's economy slowed by more than currently expected, the EIU said it would have a "hugely detrimental impact" on emerging markets in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, as well as a "severe knock-on effect" on Europe and the US.