Sentence examples for short-term blow from inspiring English sources

Economists said it would probably deal a short-term blow to the Japanese economy.

Barkley has begun the season well, and although the loss of Arteta is a short-term blow, it aids the long-term case of the latest product of Everton's enviable production line of talent.

However, since many retailers' profitability for the year depends on holiday season sales, a Christmas with the first nominal retail sales decline in at least 55 years could be a serious short-term blow.

This deals a short-term blow to Australian mining giants Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, which wrangled major price hikes for iron ore from Chinese steel producers this year.

Crises that occur in the midst of bull markets typically wind up delivering only short-term blows to stocks, but crises in bear markets usually exacerbate the existing downturn.

The job of government was to explain the merits of globalization to citizens while softening its short-term blows, with a light cushion of social welfare and job-retraining programs, until its lasting benefits became available to everyone (right around the time the Internet was ending global poverty).

And yet, aside from the short-term PR blow, Facebook has little incentive to change — financial or otherwise.

By Sunday night, the Giants had fought past that, until the only obstacles left between them and an improbable Super Bowl berth were the bitter cold and the short-term memory of blown chances to win.

When Mr. McConnell talked his conference into approving a short-term measure instead, it blew up in the House, with conservative members there complaining that Mr. McConnell had sold them out.

Though the parade of sales is echoing a trend across Europe that has seen cash-strapped Greece move to sell off islands and Italy peddle a 17th-century palazzo, the outcry here is from those who worry that a push for short-term gains is outweighing the blow to cultural life.

Taking his brother's initial premise, he created a protagonist, Leonard Shelby (Mr. Pearce, in a tour de force performance), who is seeking to avenge the rape and death of his beloved wife but who has no short-term memory because of a blow to the head incurred during his wife's attack.