11.   Clearly the Rangers lost a chance to deal the Yankees a mortal blow.

12.   Colombian officials said he is likely to do so, so as not to deal a mortal blow to peace negotiations.

13.   It dealt a mortal blow to Rudd Performance Motorsports.

14.   Science and religion came to mortal blows.

15.   The introduction of canned beer had dealt a mortal blow to our prime industry of returning used beer bottles.

16.   To be a cripple was a mortal blow to him, relieved only by the fact that he could take part in the film Monsaingeon was preparing.

17.   Was this the mortal blow?

18.   With enough exposure through one company, for instance, an agency that sold a big group cruise, an insurer might be struck a mortal blow.

19.   A system that once ruled nearly half of humanity had suffered a mortal blow.

20.   Early polls showed New Jersey could have been a kind state to Republican John McCain, whose presidential ambitions were delivered a potentially mortal blow on Tuesday.