The news paints a picture of disaffection amongst the Welsh electorate and could come as a blow to the parties with just eight months until the second ever Welsh Assembly election.
Leeds' decision has come as a blow to the FA though they are not short of bids for founder membership of the new league, which is set to start next year.
Gibson's decision will come as a blow to Durham, who had been hoping he would return to the north east next season to improve on their second place in the county championship.
"The announcement that the line from London will only be electrified as far as Cardiff has come as a blow to businesses and commuters in Swansea and the south west of Wales, " he said.
The news will come as a blow to protesters and the Spanish government, which is currently in the process of trying to push through new anti-doping legislation in a bid to bring the country level with international standards.
The confirmation of talks between Klinsmann and his bosses will come as a blow to Benitez, although Hicks said the negotiations took place in November when the club were in danger of going out of the Champions League at the group stages and suffering indifferent league form.
Earlier in the week, Nolan had admitted the news of Hughton's sacking had come as a huge blow.
Correspondents say the decision will come as a big blow to Indian wrestlers who have been making a mark internationally.
Another blow could come Wednesday, when Apple introduces its new Macintosh lineup.
The job losses at Llanidloes have come as a huge blow to the town, which depended on the foundry as its main employer.
Longer term, were we served by more renewable power generators (wind, solar) we would be better protected against unpredictable price spikes in oil and gas markets that may come when political winds blow in an unexpected direction.
Mr Saakashvili said on Wednesday that the deaths had come as a "heavy blow".
It was later found that he had an unusually fragile skull and thick jaw, meaning that the fatal blow could have come at any time in his career.
The first blow against Carey had come just three days after he declared victory in last year's strike.
But none of the banks still due to report, not even a resurgent JP Morgan Chase, is expected to come close to Goldman's blow-out performance.
Pool enjoyed a period of dominance as the Bluebirds tried to come to terms with their double blow, but Stephen Crainey shot wide and DJ Campbell, who scored a hat-trick in the play-off semi-final second leg against Nottingham Forest, failed to connect with a precise low cross.
Trusts and estates lawyers are just starting to come up with ways to soften the blow of the tax hikes on trusts.
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"A long free fall is more chance for my ears to come off or for the fur to blow in my face, " he explains.
The store has learned that many people come in with fiscally responsible intentions only to blow through wads of cash.
And when tough times inevitably come -- when war and economic hardship threaten to blow us off course -- we do what Americans have always done.
Will Democratic and Republican law-makers come to some arrangement, before January, to ease the blow to the economy?
Detroit boosters were dealt a one-two blow this week by the kind of outsiders they have come to resent.
But should we, as a matter of policy, and moral decency, learn to think and comprehend that our actions in one part of the world could very well come back to hurt us, or, as Paul would say, blow back in our face?
Until I come up with a solution, I'm unplugging my computer and my blow dryer.
"This is something that if I come back early, I'm not going to be very good and I can blow it out and risk surgery, and then I'm gone the whole year, " Teixeira said.
This result is another severe blow to Blues manager Carlo Ancelotti, who has already seen his team's Premier League title defence come off the rails and their Carling Cup bid ended by Newcastle.
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