And, if so, was the blackout but the first blow in a lethal one-two punch?
Scotland struck the first blow in the 16th minute after Contepomi dragged his first penalty attempt wide.
The Chicago Blitz struck the first blow, signing a highly coveted Ohio State running back named Tim Spencer.
Ms La Grua said Ashley Hughes struck the first blow with a weapon to Darrell Jones' left temple.
The home side struck the first blow with a superb Hodgson penalty from distance in the second minute.
The first blow against Carey had come just three days after he declared victory in last year's strike.
But it was Oxford who struck the first blow, taking the lead in the 15th minute with Green's stunning strike.
In no part of the country is a person threatened with death or serious physical injury required to suffer the first blow.
Google struck the first blow in Oct. 2009 with the release of free, turn-by-turn navigation software for phones that use its mobile platform, Android.
In 1809, Ecuador struck its first blow for independence from Spain.
Under his questioning, Dale Gilbreath, an investigator for the state attorney's office, testified he didn't know whether Mr. Zimmerman or Mr. Martin threw the first blow.
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The first blow to his credibility came from Donald Rumsfeld.
This isn't the first blow by the NCAA to the Huskies program, which traditionally has been among the best in its Big East conference and the nation as a whole.
More than 100 federal agents and Omaha police SWAT officers barreled into houses across the city, part of the first blow in a larger effort aimed at combating violent crime citywide.
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Ian Poulter's hopes of a first major win suffered a blow though after his first over-par round of the tournament.
Earlier, tail-enders Alex Tudor and James Ormond saved Surrey from a first-innings blow-out.
Having lost all-rounder Andrew Flintoff to a side strain at the end of the first day, England suffered an early blow on day two as first-innings top-scorer Owais Shah was ruled out because of an eye problem.
But Fulham suffered a bigger blow in first-half injury time when Koncheskey was sent off for raising his hands to Fagan as they tussled on the flank.
The company weathered a blow in the first quarter when net income dropped 60.9%, marking the hardest-hit quarter.
The company weathered a blow in the first quarter when net income dropped 48.3%, marking the hardest-hit quarter.
The company weathered a blow in the first quarter when net income dropped 61.4%, marking the hardest-hit quarter.
Should the deal fall apart, First Solar would sustain a blow to its developing emphasis on designing, building and selling large solar projects to developers a strategy that was supposed to keep the company on an even keel amid squeezed margins affecting its solar-manufacturing business, which has seen industry-wide head winds.
It's not the first time the owners try to blow life into the sleeping giant.
But a basketball game is four quarters, and if you only play the first half well, you can blow the game in the second half.
At the end of a two-day summit in Brussels, Silvio Berlusconi showed optimism in face of a double blow to Europe, first over the Constitution and now over the budget, and stressed that the European Council ended "with neither winners nor losers".
Blow-up spacecraft were first developed at NASA in the 1960s.
In later years, there were more warnings about the Home, but Lucy Cole-Hamilton does seem to be the first to make a serious attempt to blow the whistle, according to Margaret Humphreys of the Child Migrants' Trust.
The match always looked like being a clash of styles, but when the Wallabies threatened to blow England away in the first 40 minutes it seemed as though Johnson's side were going to be on the end of an embarrassing hiding.
Where else could a designer like Jonathan Blow spend years developing an esoteric first-person puzzler like The Witness?
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The first half was poor and Ipswich suffered a blow when the influential David Norris went off injured after 15 minutes.
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