But centre Jaike Carter's fourth-minute try merely had the effect of stinging Sale into life.
Khan's punishing jab comes in a flash and he can unleash a swarm of stinging blows in a nanosecond.
The public has listened to years of stinging revelations detailing how the government tied its own hands in stopping the devastating attacks of September 11.
Clownfish live happily amongst the tentacles of poisonous stinging sea anemones, a relative of the jellyfish, thanks to a protective layer of mucous.
He had not forgotten his time at the citadel, but his memory was heavily veiled by his final days there and the days afterward, his arduous trek, the burrs and splinters of glass stinging his paws, the dense, watery taste of the bloated dead.
For Leighton Andrews, the jagged edge has just been delivered in the form of a stinging slap around the cheeks from Amanda Spielman, the chair of Ofqual.
Of all stinging invectives, being called a liar is near the top.
Virgin Train's service from Birmingham New Street to London Euston was also the subject of some stinging criticism, with Dawn Hickey calling it "dismal".
He professes devotion to the principles of the welfare state, but he wrote a stinging criticism of the Nordic model in his youth.
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Most of all, Jews all over the world hope to hear the German Benedict speak clearly, at the central site of Hitler's final solution, about the Holocaust and to make a stinging condemnation of anti-Semitism, which is reasserting itself in many European countries, especially Poland.
Proof of the Vatican's irritation came with a stinging statement Saturday complaining of "unverified, unverifiable or completely false news stories, " even suggesting the media is trying to influence the election of the next pope.
Shots on target could be counted one hand and the best of those came in the second half with Manchester City forward Roque Santa Cruz stinging the hands of All Whites keeper Mark Paston with a 25-yard free-kick.
In the early 1900s, while he was working on a revision of Triumphant Democracy that would have brought him a renewed flood of royalties, Bridge got word that Carnegie, still stinging from a series of rebukes from labor, would not permit a reissue of the book.
Unfortunately for the Blues faithful he was being granted the freedom of the city down the Birmingham right and he twice tried his luck from distance, stinging the hands of goalkeeper Ben Foster with his second effort.
Cranberry juice is said to alleviate cystitis, a stinging inflammation of the bladder usually caused by a urinary tract infection (UTI).
The case has attracted huge attention in Germany, has prompted stinging criticism of the German security services and led to high-level resignations.
Perhaps the fast-moving consumer goods category is a sweet spot in the Russian economy that will nevertheless not attract the stinging wasps of the state.
After United's FA Cup exit at the hands of Portsmouth last season, Ferguson launched a stinging attack on referee Martin Atkinson's handling of the game and said Hackett was "not doing his job properly".
It is hard for the art games scorpion to hold itself back from stinging the toad of popular appeal.
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Routledge almost grabbed a second, his volley stinging the gloves of Camp.
Aberdeen signalled their early intent after the interval, with Foster stinging the palms of Ma-Kalambay with a fierce shot before Michael Paton shot over a minute later.
And goalkeeper Jung Sung-ryong was forced into his first genuine save of the match when he parried Theofanis Gekas's stinging shot on the turn from the edge of the box over the bar for a corner in the 81st minute.
Petrov collected possession on the right-hand side of the Stoke penalty area and lashed a stinging effort past former Villa goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen, who appeared to lose sight of the ball as it flew through a crowd of bodies.
The heater was on high, belting out a stinging warmth that smelled of the little cardboard pine-tree air freshener dangling from the rearview mirror.
His anti-slavery bill, introduced every year, is easily defeated, and Wilberforce is getting rained on stinging cold downpours, of the type much favored by movie directors, douse his suffering body whenever he goes out.
Last term, a divided court upheld Michigan's voter approved ban on race based admissions programs at public colleges that was passed in 2006 with 58 % of the vote, over a stinging dissent written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
" Richard Berke calls speech "the most stinging and unabashedly partisan assault of the convention.
That has brought a stinging rebuke and the threat of a lawsuit from the European Commission.
In order to help protect close relatives, termites have been found to explode during fights, bees die after stinging, while the members of another species of ant have been found to condemn themselves to death by sealing in a nesting colony from the outside.
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For decades, Greenpeace has wanted nothing to do with him a rebuke that is particularly stinging because he was a founder of the organization.
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