1.   He gathered all his strength to deliver his opponent the final mortal blow.

2.   To Nora it was the final blow.

3.   The final blow for Philip was the defection of his chancellor, Conrad, bishop of Wrzburg.

4.   But it was another substitute, Kenny Brown, who dealt the final blow for the hammers, with his very first touch of the match.

5.   And the spring warming came late, dealing the herd a final blow.

6.   And the gradual shifting of the luxury hotel market west to Beverly Hills was the final blow.

7.   As the alliance tells it, its forces literally smoked out Taliban rebels holed up in a building, the final blow being point-blank fire from a Soviet tank.

8.   Before the pair fled in his car, Jenoff delivered a final blow, lawyers for both men said.

9.   A final blow came when fiberglass took over the industry.

10.   Almost as suddenly the economy soured and the place floundered, and September was the final blow.