Graham Smith of the Unite union described the closure plan as a body blow to the area.
Hizbullah received a body blow following the Syrian-ordered February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri.
That is a body blow that the European banking system could not endure.
It would deliver a body blow to the credibility of the backbench eurosceptics.
The bout was waved off after a minute and 48 seconds of the round when Barnett crumpled after a body blow.
Also, their new conference (Atlantic 10) recently suffered a body blow with Xavier and Butler heading to the new Big East.
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Leeds took a stranglehold on the game as the goal proved a body blow which took the wind out of Carlisle.
An exodus of Hans and a drying up of tourism from other parts of China would deal a body blow to the city's economy.
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.
That deals a body blow to Isis' original plan to seek regulatory approval from the Food and Drug Administration as early as this year.
"This is a body blow to lamb producers across Wales and to employment on the island of Anglesey and Gwynedd, " said NFU Cymru president Ed Bailey.
The most commonly peddled narrative is that by attacking its much touted financial and entertainment capital, you deal a body blow to India and get global media attention.
Resolute and fiercely proud, but also weathered and visibly weary, Jones has a craggy integrity that bears the brunt of this story's distress full on, like a body blow.
Which is something of a body blow to those telling us that we must cease economic growth if calamity is to be averted: the very assumptions built into the whole proof that climate change is something we should worry about say exactly the opposite.
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.
The financial crisis really was a severe body blow to us, and a lot of the American people still think the Republicans are in control of the House and the Senate and the White House.
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.
The "excellent" work of the probation service was heralded by Ms Clibbon but she said it was about to be dealt a "body blow".
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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"With over 300 jobs going it's a major body blow and north Wales has lost its largest processing plant, " said Gwyn Howells, the agency's chief executive.
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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.
"A stunning body blow" for William Hague is how The Observer describes the MP's departure, while The Sunday Times talks of a "mood of crisis" among senior Conservatives.
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.
Since Japan Inc took a major body blow in 1990, the remains of the Japanese zaibatsu the large conglomerates assembled over decades, centuries, even, out of the interests of ancient Samurai families and former sake vendors have been on the ropes.
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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It is a blow to the head or body, which causes a change in brain function.
One former TSA official told CNN that a body scanner could have stopped Umar Farouq AbdulMutallab, the man accused of trying to blow up a December 25 Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands, to Detroit, Michigan.
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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