He delivered a knockout blow to all of his rivals.
Tian's decision to resign as president was a major blow to the nine UCLA campuses.
The death of its leader was a body-blow to the party.
After using a blow torch to de-freeze the engine, we drove out on to frozen Lake Baikal.
The loss of Ochoa is a major blow to the LPGA, already struggling with fewer tournaments and lost sponsors.
He returned home and sat down, saddened by his lost bet, and embarrassed by the blow to his pride.
When questions surfaced about the chips' authenticity, SJTU, fearing a blow to its own reputation, asked higher authorities to step in, sources close to the investigation told Science.
When it comes to sacrifice, you can also say that it is a devastating blow to people's growth and world outlook values.
Mechanism: Direct blow to anterior thigh (Football/basketball) or from a ball traveling at a high rate of speed (field hockey/lacrosse).
deliver a blow to the jaw
We administered a severe blow to the invaders
He went to the hospital after a blow to the face.
The patient is suffering from severe concussion following a blow to the head
What they found was nothing of the sort and the results came as a bitter blow to propagandists everywhere.
He chose to regard this as a snub but it is difficult to believe that the supposed blow to his amour propre was anything other than an excuse.
Despite this blow to our dignity we long maintained a polite fiction that we're special enough to merit classification in our own scientific family—the Hominidae.
The anti-monopoly law objectively connives the administrative regional monopolies because of its imperfect system and the weak blow to the administrative regional monopolies.
It was a big blow to Li at that time.
They have gone to sleep or have been knocked out by a blow to the head.
The mortal blow to the Round Table ws given by Sir Modred, who tried to seize Arthur’s power.
For China, a breakdown in relations would deal a severe blow to its economic program and modernization.
Baptista, nicknamed 'the beast' in Spain, also admits that Sevilla's failure to clinch a Champions League place last season was a blow to his aspirations.
It was the cruellest blow to Gandhi.
This is a big blow to some ancient diseases, a big blow to the seemingly endless grip of poverty, and a big triumph for the power of partnerships.
The news of my failure came as a knock-down blow to me.
Now, the Empress Dowager told him to do a big blow to the Han people, how he did not like to come from, jump to!
A person who is already insecure about an aspect of their appearance may suffer a severe blow to their confidence if the surgery goes awry.
Losing his job was a real blow to his pride.
At this time, I totally angried with his stupid words , so I decided to deliver a sharp blow to him.
Thee new curbs on outflows are likely to deal a further blow to the offshore renminbi market, where liquidity has already been tightening.
The change is yet another blow to the newspaper industry.
A direct blow to the pterion, or even an indirect blow to another part of the skull, may cause a fracture to this weak area, with an associated rupture of the underlying vessel.
But one thing is certain: a change of this magnitude in the most populous nation in the Arab World is a devastating blow to the status quo.
The withdrawal of the subsidy dealt a body-blow to the club's plans for larger accommodation.
Printing gives the death-blow to bookselling.
The global economic downturn, said to be the worst in a century, seems to have dealt a harder blow to the business of old, traditional media.
While the Great Recession dealt a blow to Wall Street oligarchs, it greatly accelerated the withering of the broad middle.
But what happened is a blow to the peaceful relations, and of course, a grave violation of accepted diplomatic behaviour between sovereign states.
This is a major blow to market of investment of personal capital stock .
That was a blow to steelmakers accustomed to predictable prices for their most important ingredient.
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