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  • noun The blow of a hammer, or a blow resembling that of a hammer, as the impact of an unbalanced wheel.

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  • Bravely, and at risk to its economic development India's central bank declared over a week ago that the Asia Clearing Union could no longer be used to settle transactions between India and Iran attaining to the India's purchases of Iranian oil and gas supplies thereby delivering a highly meaningful and symbolic hammer-blow to the Iranian regime please see The Oil Nabobs Slouching Towards Iran.

    Raymond J. Learsy: India Acts to Cut Off Iranian Oil Deliveries. The U.S. Needs to Act in Solidarity Raymond J. Learsy 2011

  • Bravely, and at risk to its economic development India's central bank declared over a week ago that the Asia Clearing Union could no longer be used to settle transactions between India and Iran attaining to the India's purchases of Iranian oil and gas supplies thereby delivering a highly meaningful and symbolic hammer-blow to the Iranian regime please see The Oil Nabobs Slouching Towards Iran.

    Raymond J. Learsy: India Acts to Cut Off Iranian Oil Deliveries. The U.S. Needs to Act in Solidarity Raymond J. Learsy 2011

  • Bravely, and at risk to its economic development India's central bank declared over a week ago that the Asia Clearing Union could no longer be used to settle transactions between India and Iran attaining to the India's purchases of Iranian oil and gas supplies thereby delivering a highly meaningful and symbolic hammer-blow to the Iranian regime please see The Oil Nabobs Slouching Towards Iran.

    Raymond J. Learsy: India Acts to Cut Off Iranian Oil Deliveries. The U.S. Needs to Act in Solidarity Raymond J. Learsy 2011

  • Bravely, and at risk to its economic development India's central bank declared over a week ago that the Asia Clearing Union could no longer be used to settle transactions between India and Iran attaining to the India's purchases of Iranian oil and gas supplies thereby delivering a highly meaningful and symbolic hammer-blow to the Iranian regime please see The Oil Nabobs Slouching Towards Iran.

    Raymond J. Learsy: India Acts to Cut Off Iranian Oil Deliveries. The U.S. Needs to Act in Solidarity Raymond J. Learsy 2011

  • This final act of negation is a hammer-blow to both Jokla and the reader.

    Patrica Russo's "The Oracle Opens One Eye" Hal Duncan 2008

  • This final act of negation is a hammer-blow to both Jokla and the reader.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Hal Duncan 2008

  • We have come many steps closer to what Elmer Diktonius put into words in one of his aphorisms: “If the purpose of art were to anaesthetize, to make us forget life, then a hammer-blow to the skull would be the simplest art, and the best” – though perhaps not quite in the way that Diktonius meant.

    Archive 2009-10-01 David McDuff 2009

  • And also, Jamie Hepburn losing out in Cumbernauld and Kilsyth is a genuine hammer-blow.

    Not how it was meant to be... Jeff 2007

  • After James Bulger's murder, Blair went to Wellingborough and announced that the killing was 'a hammer-blow against the sleeping conscience of the country '.

    Archive 2007-08-19 Newmania 2007

  • As he says,This deeply damaging proposal originates from the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health & HIV and therefore comes from the heart of the abortion industry – threatening yet another hammer-blow to the sanctity of human life in this country.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

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