Mr Fox's immediate task, however, is to cushion the blow from the United States' slowdown.
The move was the latest blow from a ratings firm and could unnerve investors.
In Louisiana, power utility Entergy is restoring wetlands that will help soften the blow from future storms.
He was killed with a single blow from the wide end - or adze - of the axe.
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Sears Holdings suffered another blow from its reports of worse than expected sales and operating performance this quarter.
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If you aren't sure you can take another blow from owning stocks, you probably don't belong on the trail anymore.
One worker suffered a fatal blow from the impact of the pressure release and died on the scene, Mack said.
That means building an emergency fund to cushion the blow from a loss of income or surprise big expense, she says.
That seemingly stable advertising business has taken a blow from the Internet.
There is more sympathy for pensioners, who face a double blow from a freeze in pensions and the impact of tax rises.
For Deloitte the threat is that this affair becomes to it what Enron was to Arthur Andersen a body-blow from which its reputation never recovers.
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Every year, 300, 000 seals meet their end not by mauling from a polar bear, but instantaneously from gunshot or a blow from a club.
Like most elevated homes, it is designed to absorb a blow from Mother Nature without jeopardizing either the occupants or diminishing the environment surrounding it.
Mr Robb, now 37, was taking part in a battle re-enactment in Bedfordshire in June 2006 when he received a blow from a sword which penetrated his skull.
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Dr James Mitchell, head of business development for Atlantis in London, said the project could lessen the blow from workforce reductions at the former Dounreay nuclear power complex.
Theismann, who is now an NFL Network analyst, was the recipient of one of the most famous hits in NFL history a blow from Lawrence Taylor that shattered his leg.
Typically consisting of a long, narrow, sharpened edge attached to a handle, chisels are distinguished from knives and axes in that they're driven by a sharp blow from a hammer or mallet.
Hopes that the financial sector had turned the corner on the credit crisis received a massive blow Thursday from Merrill Lynch.
Whereas the prevailing moral wind used to blow reliably from the warm and indulgent south, now it blows also from the cold and prickly north.
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The Saint-Jean lawsuit reads like a parable of the mortgage meltdown, complete with unsophisticated homeowners, avaricious bankers, and a mortgage that looks like it was designed to blow up from the beginning.
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Those who could read shared the glorious details with their illiterate fellows, and up and down the state, Latinos savored the blow-by-blow reporting from the front lines of the conflict that had so riveted their attention.
But at some point he noticed that returning to reality from the world of a novel was not as devastating a blow as returning from the world of math.
Even with the parachute, the financial blow of relegation from the top tier can be crippling.
The Blues failed to make their numerical advantage count, but they delivered the telling blow five minutes from time with a superb counter-attack.
Even as he worried about this, he was carried away by a rage that seemed to blow into him from nowhere.
That said, a pick-up in growth in Japan and Europe ought to cushion the blow to exporters from an American slowdown.
"This has nothing to do with the blow he received from Lee, but it was noticed while he was at the specialist's, " he said.
In 1809, Ecuador struck its first blow for independence from Spain.
And for all Arsenal's pretty passing and intricate patterns in the second half, it was Chelsea who applied the killer blow five minutes from time when Alex concluded a fast bowler's run-up with a true touch of Brazil as he lashed a long-range free-kick high beyond Lukasz Fabianski.
Clarke eventually fell to a slower ball from Darren Maddy, but Chris Rogers - who had earlier retired on 10 after a blow to the helmet from Neil Carter - returned to continue the onslaught.
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