The lead was a blow for Mr. Rothman, who chose to run against Mr. Pascrell after redistricting last year placed more of his old turf in the new Ninth Congressional District.
It is a necessary but not necessarily sufficient blow to lead to its demise.
Liverpool did, in fact, blow their lead and ended up behind United.
They managed to blow a 10 point lead in the last couple of weeks of the election.
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But it was Oxford who struck the first blow, taking the lead in the 15th minute with Green's stunning strike.
They failed to capitalise on some early pressure they put Bolton under before the home side dealt them a blow by taking the lead after a swift counter-attack.
Most lead news items were court-bound blow-by-blows, ripping Gates' apparently evasive testimony and recounting the testimony of the government's first expert witness.
Killie lost Peter Leven to injury and, following the introduction of Gary Wales, they suffered another blow when Hibs extended their lead after 59 minutes.
Portsmouth had reason to complain that Adebayor was offside when the pass was played and they suffered a further blow as City doubled their lead in the first minute of injury time.
In fact, he allowed the White Sox just two hits his last time out, only to watch closer Greg Holland blow his 1-0 lead in the ninth inning of an eventual 2-1 loss.
Some describe to me how they have battles inside their head about whether they dare ask a patient a question as they know it will lead to a longer discussion that will blow their productivity numbers.
Though Wasps had just about earned their lead at the interval, they suffered a blow 10 minutes into the second half as Simpson left the field holding his wrist.
Chelsea's response to this blow, however, was to double their lead.
It is advantage United - who suffered a scare late on when Rio Ferdinand went off after suffering a blow to the ribs - but the narrow lead still leaves the semi-final in the balance ahead of next week's return game.
Glasgow retained their lead because Jones missed the conversion, but the visitors suffered another blow at half-time, with Scotland scrum-half Chris Cusiter going off injured and being replaced with Mark McMillan.
Steyn's thumping penalty from 66 metres cut Leinster's lead to 17 points and the home side then suffered a double blow on 57 minutes when VuliVuli scored a glorious individual try and O'Driscoll appeared to pull a hamstring in attempting to halt the Fijian.
He asked whether the FM would "lead a national campaign" to reverse the Chancellor's "hammer blow" to the industry.
If it goes ahead with nationalization and it does lead to more job losses, it would lose political capital and suffer a huge blow to its reputation.
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O'Gara added the extras and Sale suffered another blow four minutes later when Hodgson horribly hooked a chance to cut into Munster's lead.
The Dragons were then dealt a blow with the loss of flanker Dan Lydiate to an ankle injury, but extended their lead with another penalty when Adam Jones was caught offside.
Deacon failed to appear for the second period because of a leg injury and in a further blow for the Bulls, winger Calderwood took Barrett's grubber to increase Wigan's lead.
It was a scintillating start to the match for the Welsh side and, although they suffered a blow as scrum-half Jason Spice went off with a broken arm, they soon took the lead with a quite brilliant try.
Needing to win at Trent Bridge in their final group game to guarantee qualification, Dominic Cork's 4-18 helped blow Notts away for just 145 before Michael Lumb and Jimmy Adams shared an unbroken opening stand to lead Hampshire to a 10-wicket win and a guaranteed home quarter-final.
Monaghan were dealt a major blow with the dismissal of Francis Caulfield in the first half and Queen's upped a gear to lead by two points at the interval at Clones on Saturday afternoon.
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