It's a tough financial blow to St. Mellion, which has invested £20 million in the last two years to bring the course up to speed.

For it to launch an attack was a tougher blow to shrug off.

It's a tough blow, but maybe they can take something from what they learned in sports.

The fire was a tough blow to the business owners and the people who continue to make their home here.

The conservatives like to talk tough and strike blows for virtue, he said, but when it came to Bosnia, they were mostly silent.

Each of these guys can actually take the tough blows, and normally turn them to advantage.

It was a tough blow for rock.

Now the puncher who came back so often from tough blows must try to do so again.

"It's a tough blow to the community, because the jobs to replace this will be much lower paying," he said.

Although we wished them well, it was a tough blow to have them leave.