What the President was announcing today is, given that we have this imminent deadline, given the unfortunate reluctance of the Speaker and others to act on that proposal at least right now, we should not allow the sequester to kick in and threaten the jobs of hundreds of thousands of Americans and deliver a blow to the economy right when we can't afford it.
Mr Hollande said the rebels were "trying to deliver a fatal blow to the very existence of this country".
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It would deliver a body blow to the credibility of the backbench eurosceptics.
This is the case that may deliver a knockout blow to business method patents, those patents that everybody from free-software zealots to conservative Republicans love to hate.
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Also, because the depressing effect of spending cuts will already deliver a major blow to the sagging economy, broad-based tax increases (like letting all Bush tax rates expire) will almost guarantee a double dip recession in 2013.
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As observers noted, Beijing, which currently controls 97% of world production of rare earths, may have been trying to deliver a knock-out blow to the Japanese economy.
Yet as a consequence, given the need to prevent a budgetary blow-out, there is little scope to deliver growth-raising tax cuts.
So far, neither side has been able to deliver a decisive blow in Qusair.
Neither internal camp seems to have the means to deliver a decisive blow.
With nothing else to play for, New Jersey would surely love to deliver the knockout blow to New York for the second year in a row.
When those hopes proved unfounded, he looked to his re-election, believing a second consecutive victory might deliver the final blow, he said.
From the subsequent line-out Quins duly set up a potential match-winning chance, but this time Evans was unable to deliver the knock-out blow as his drop-goal attempt faded agonisingly wide.
The new law, which applies to both ball carriers and defenders, will penalize players who drop their heads and deliver a forcible blow with the top of the helmet in the open field.
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