"blow" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The ministry's diminished power was underscored late last year, when ANA, Japan's second-largest airline, dealt an embarrassing blow.
- All the same, a trial of the S.E.C. lawsuit could be another embarrassing blow not only to Ms. Stewart's image but to the fortunes of her company.
- But now we have the opportunity to strike an embarrassing blow while the CHOAM auditors are present.
- The solid, stable rule of the Cardassian Central Command against the embarrassing terrorist blows and upheaval following the rise of the Detapa Council.
- The release of the two, Mohammed Abdul Kahar, 23, and Abul Koyair, 20, was an embarrassing blow to the Metropolitan Police, which had led the raid.
- The Legislature succeeded in dictating to him the size and nature of a huge tax cut, an embarrassing blow.
- France's decision, in defiance of the commission ruling, was seized by the British government's political opponents as an embarrassing blow to Mr. Blair's efforts to resolve the dispute through diplomacy.
- The problems are an embarrassing blow to Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani.
- Still, a trial could be an embarrassing blow to Ms. Stewart's image and to her company.
- The shooting today was an embarrassing blow to the country's effort to allay security concerns ahead of the Olympic Games.
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