However, although they are a body-blow they aren't quite a knock-out one.
Such a freeze would represent a body-blow to the Chinese government's efforts to close the "technology gap" between Western capabilities and their own.
For Deloitte the threat is that this affair becomes to it what Enron was to Arthur Andersen a body-blow from which its reputation never recovers.
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No doubt an Israeli body-blow to the Arabist worldview will compel Kaplan and other new members of the anti-Israel camp to reconsider their views.
Yet western diplomats, in particular, were quick to declare the affair a body-blow to Mr Khatami, who has worked assiduously to improve Iran's relations with the West.
The figures are a body-blow to anyone saying that the British economy can't survive outside of the eurozone and also to those who say that not being in the euro is already damaging our economy.
For this reason, it came as a powerful body-blow to the armed forces and those who prize their service when the new Bush-Cheney administration began signaling this week that it would not increase the Clinton-Gore defense budget this year.
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Hizbullah received a body blow following the Syrian-ordered February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri.
Mr. FIELD: You know, this is the interesting question. 9-11 obviously was a body blow to the airlines and to the U.S. economy.
Look, the President believes that this country suffered an economic body blow the likes of which it had not encountered -- suffered from since the Great Depression.
But the real body blow for West Indies was the loss of Nash, whose four-and-a-quarter-hour innings ended disappointingly when he offered no stroke to a ball from Bollinger and lost his off stump.
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Given the administration's contempt for policy based on US national interests, it would be too much to expect the White House to notice that Syria's Assad regime is one of the greatest state supporters of terrorism in the world and that its overthrow would be a body blow to Iran, Venezuela, Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and al-Qaida and therefore a boon for US national security.
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