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.
The roughly 20% annual growth in laptops will cushion the recent body blow.
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 EGAT deal was also one being marketed to foreign investors, so it was another body blow to Thailand's shaky image.
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.
The "excellent" work of the probation service was heralded by Ms Clibbon but she said it was about to be dealt a "body blow".
The energy industry needs to avoid "the same kind of body blow that just hit the financial industry, " billionaire Richard Branson warned Wednesday.
That deals a body blow to Isis' original plan to seek regulatory approval from the Food and Drug Administration as early as this year.
He added that the government stood firmly with the community of West Lothian and would help it recover from the "body blow to their economy".
Patel was held by Flintoff at second slip just before tea, but the body blow for India was losing their skipper just after the interval.
"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.
"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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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.
"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 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.
And recovering from that kind of body blow takes time.
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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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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