To lose Saville is a disastrous blow.

It also happens to be a disastrous blow to Test cricket's normally well-guarded sanctity as the supreme form of the game's expression.

The capture of the leaders of an absolute monarchy is always a disastrous blow.

Strength I thought lost returned and the pain ... the dreadful pain from the disastrous blow he'd inflicted began to subtly fade.

This landing of the émigrés at Quiberon was finally repulsed on 21 July, dealing a disastrous blow to the royalist cause.

For Inkatha a poor showing in its home base would be a disastrous blow.

According to writer Compton Mackenzie, the address "dealt a disastrous blow to religious feeling throughout the country".

This was a disastrous blow to Sparta, which was utterly dependent on the helots.

Aside from that, and this will sound self-serving, this will be the most disastrous blow to intercollegiate athletics in my lifetime.

It had a major impact, dealing a disastrous blow to the royalist cause.