hammerblow

The end of free parking on weekday evenings and on Sundays, which will raise an extra £7million a year for the Tory led authority, has been described as a "hammerblow" for the West End's huge night-time economy - the biggest in Europe.

Evening Standard - Home Tony Bonnici 2011

It's starting to feel like Chinese water torture, with the eventuality of every use feeling like a hammerblow to my forehead.

What Really Grinds My Gears wendigomountain 2010

What happens to them for good or ill is so often not the result of natural growth or decline but of some economic bonanza or hammerblow or some landlord ' s benevolence or greed.

An Enduring Ideal Ferdinand Mount 2010

Killing myself would be a hammerblow to the web of people I live in, tarnishing their world forever ...

A Suicide Celebration 2004

The M&M recall now becomes icing on the cake, but mostly, a hammerblow to any who contest 'the way we do things around here'.

Can't trust the Whirled - BatesLine 2005

He saw and understood at once, the knowledge falling upon him in a hammerblow, hot as the sun of the desert that was the apotheosis of all deserts.

The Dark Tower King, Stephen 2004

But even as he did so, before the anticipated hammerblow of agony rendered him senseless, the startling realization came to him: Ullanoth could not have taken his Great Stones away.

Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

The Greeks heave a sigh of relief, and we flatten them promptly with a hammerblow.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

So did its rib cage, under yet another hammerblow of a paw the size of an anvil.

The Shadow Of The Lion Lackey, Mercedes 2002

Even though the Springboks recovered superbly from the pyschological hammerblow of losing a home series to the All Blacks for the first time to win all five tests in Argentina, France and

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997