While two executives have been appointed from within the company to replace Ms Shepherdson, losing such an influential figure has been seen by many analysts as a large blow for Sir Philip's Arcadia Empire.
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And when Miller was blocked off by left-back Andy Dawson, Hull suffered a blow as the left-back picked up an injury that saw him replaced by Samuel Ricketts after only 10 minutes.
Any distant hopes Namibia had of upsetting the hosts soon suffered a hammer blow as number eight Nieuwenhuis, who had already been spoken to by the referee for a high tackle, was sent off after laying out Chabal.
The result is a blow-by-blow account of what those who made recent British history were thinking as they did so, with no subsequent airbrushing out of the misjudgments of the moment.
Despite the selloff, analysts said they were not surprised by the charges and did not see the issue as a major blow to the firm.
Worse still, it might herald a move of Deutsche Bank's headquarters to London or New York (adamantly denied by the bank): a blow to Frankfurt as a financial centre.
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If so, that will be greeted by many newspaper headlines decrying (or celebrating) it as a huge blow against Europe, and the ever-sinking euro.
When she rolled she fell on her side headlong, and she would be righted back by such a demolishing blow that Jukes felt her reeling as a clubbed man reels before he collapses.
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NATO's air war, most Turkish newspapers and their readers rallied enthusiastically to the battle against Serbia, seeing it as a fresh blow for the interests of Balkan Muslims stranded by the demise of the Ottoman empire.
Richard is recorded by some sources as having been pulled from his horse and killed with a blow to the head.
In a poor agrarian country, the charge of bullying farmers to pander to big business can be a winding blow, especially as the ruling coalition, led by the Congress Party, relies on the Communist parties for its parliamentary majority.
Even as he worried about this, he was carried away by a rage that seemed to blow into him from nowhere.
In 1984, authorities uncovered plots by a settler group known as the Jewish Underground to bomb Arab buses and to blow up the mosques on the Temple Mount.
Mr Parra was among those responsible for a controversial new hydrocarbons law, seen by private-sector sources (and Mr Lameda) as a virtual death-blow to prospects for foreign investment in the industry.
The whales also breach by launching their upper bodies and blow a V-shaped spray of water as they breathe.
The breakdown has definitely delivered a blow to those who saw gold as a safe haven, but it by no means suggests gold, as an asset class, is done.
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Just in the past year we've seen the Christmas Day attempt by Mr. Abdulmutallab to blow up an airplane using a device that, as the President said, would not have and was not picked up by a simple metal detector.
Following that, the Pole's engine also appeared to blow out as a flash of flames erupted from the back of his car followed by a thick plume of trailing smoke as he approached the Casino corner of the circuit.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- In what is seen as a blow to the Pakistani Taliban, two top figures from the militant group have been seized by security forces, Pakistani officials said.
The barrier islands east of Louisiana's Lake Pontchartrain have still not recovered from the blow dealt by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Bossart said, and a spill such as this one could seriously threaten their recovery.
In mid-2011, Greek hopes for compensation were dealt a blow when the European Court of Human Rights dismissed a lawsuit brought by four Greeks who, as children, had survived one of the worst single atrocities in occupied Greece, the killing of 218 people in the village of Distomo.
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