11.   Brian Giles then delivered the crushing blow for the second consecutive game, a three-run homer into the Rangers bullpen.

12.   But some legal scholars wonder whether even the crushing blow that the Simpson verdict dealt to prosecutors will shake laboratories out of their complacency.

13.   But, in a crushing blow to those in the field, the research turned to be a fraud.

14.   Carson called the loss of his friend, who was a sleeping-car attendant, a crushing blow.

15.   Center fielder Sam Lunsford provided the crushing blow with his three-run homer in the sixth.

16.   Davis delivered the crushing blow when he fought off several pitches before hitting a shallow blooper to center that fell in front of the charging Darren Bragg.

17.   For a roster already depleted by injuries and the ever-present budget concerns, the Murphy-McSorley losses were two more crushing blows.

18.   For many artists, it would have been a crushing blow.

19.   For Dickey, it was the kind of crushing blow that forces a re-evaluation of personal priorities.

20.   Gore said the self-styled contract would deliver a crushing blow to federally financed programs.