This was the crowning blow, that there should be spectators of his predicament.

Another woman was told she should not become pregnant and cried: "This was really a crowning blow.

But the crowning blow came with the arrival of Wal-Mart.

The crowning blow came when the paper declined to publish two sports columns that disagreed with The Times's position on the matter.

Kasparaitis even had a chance to deliver the crowning blow, but he missed an empty net as time ran out.

It was a political disaster and the crowning blow to the Republican Revolution.

The crowning blow would have been if Oregon players had just stood by and watched.

The crowning blow came the next morning," Scarlet Dean was saying, "after we all returned to the office and started to sort things out.

The crowning blow was when the only fingerprints on the murder weapon turned out to be Stephens.

At one fatal crowning blow all my vague resolutions of return and recovery had vanished.