41.   Powell does not want to acknowledge any evidence of sponsorship of bin Laden by Iraq because that would demand a crushing blow at an Arab state.

42.   The bearish case on America Online rests on the assumption that new rivals and the Internet will deal the Vienna, Va., company a crushing blow.

43.   The creation of a new state in Holland -- Protestant and republican -- was also a crushing ideological blow.

44.   The dissolution of Rage Against the Machine seemed to deal yet another crushing blow to the notion that self-defined activist artists could succeed.

45.   The injury was a crushing blow for a team that is considered a Super Bowl contender.

46.   Then came the most crushing blow of all.

47.   Then the full impact of the crushing blow hit him and, if asked, he will state how there were more than a few moments of depression.

48.   There was no one moment that knocked Ed Fennell to his knees, no single crushing blow.

49.   They began breathing in the sixth, but again, the Yankees failed to deliver a crushing blow.

50.   This was the return of a free kick after a safety last Sunday that was the crushing blow against Jacksonville in the American Football Conference championship game.