The body blow dealt by the migration of skilled workers added to the city's physical destruction in the wake of partition.
This would be a body blow to many farmers.
That was a serious body blow, the effects of which we may discover to our great loss in the future.
Unquestionably, it was a body blow to the railway staff which had put so much effort and so much enterprise into this new development.
That was prior to local government reorganisation, and local independence took a body blow when that occurred.
As a result, essential services will be cut, and that will be a severe body blow to all.
One has to do one's best when a body blow of this nature occurs in one's constituency.
That was another body blow to the wool industry in particular.
