Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
But the judge's ruling took much of the wind out of the defense's sails.
Unforeseen problems could delay plans for months, taking the wind out of any new exchange's sails.
When there were storms we had to hold on to the canvas opening to keep the wind out.
And the finish by the Barcelona striker appeared to knock the wind out of the Honduras players at Ellis Park.
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Leeds took a stranglehold on the game as the goal proved a body blow which took the wind out of Carlisle.
Some economists now think that the ECB will cut interest rates further, to take some wind out of the euro's sails.
"That takes the wind out of my change of circumstances, " he acknowledged.
It clearly took the wind out of the Pacific islanders for the final and it was effectively over as a contest by half-time.
What happened next, however, sucked the wind out of my balloon.
"Verizon's timing was clearly intended to take wind out of Google's plans, " says Scott Ellison, vice president of mobile and wireless communications at market research firm IDC.
Senator CARL LEVIN (Democrat, Michigan): And an effort to take the wind out of the sails of those of us who want to truly change course in Iraq.
When the Bank of England dropped its base rate to 0.5%, it took the wind out of the sails of anyone looking for a decent rate of interest.
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Earlier optimism was in line with a brief rally in GPS shares until news of another 7.4-magnitude earthquake in Japan knocked the wind out of a U.S. stock market rally.
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"It was the thing that took the wind out of our sails a little bit, because we were on the front foot, " said Calderwood, who did not think his side lacked battling qualities.
That said, I do think Sarah stretched a bit in the effort to take some wind out of the sails of the piece in question and missed a few key points in the process.
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The October release of the new iPad and the iPad Mini took the wind out of those sails, but with a number of releases since then, many were still expecting March to see something announced by Tim Cook.
When Paterson then missed a third penalty attempt it seemed to take the wind out of the hosts' sails and as the half wore on Munster grew stronger and stronger, claiming their opening try just before the break.
Indeed, the announcement also says that the DGA will engage in informal discussions with the AMPTP before mid-November, which will prepare the DGA to do a deal promptly before the holiday season sucks the wind out of the town.
But Ault, who moved to Singapore three years ago, says he "no longer feels the magic" in Gotham, which still bears the scars of a financial crisis that knocked the wind out of much of its most extravagant party culture.
Add hundreds of thousands of soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen and Coast Guard personnel who will be forced out of uniform and may wind up out of work and, in some cases, homeless, and you have a serious additional burden on our economy and society.
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Huge 80-metre-long turbine blades, made in a single span, for vast wind farms out at sea.
The Santa Clara-based champion of x86 architecture has seen the wind drop out of its sails (and sales).
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When the wind comes out of the southwest, you have to tack the sail this way and adjust to the prevailing conditions.
In recent years, as the wind came out of the economy's sails, boat sales fell segment by segment, then recovered, he says.
Statoil's Alexandra Beck Gjorv told the BBC the technology, the Hywind, to be put off Norway's coast - "should help move offshore wind farms out of sight".
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