The shell reached its target; it hit the animal, but not in the usual fashion-it bounced off that rounded surface and vanished into the sea two miles out.
But the final, almost-fatal blow for the sphenodontians was the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event 66 million years ago, the one that wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs.
As a result the covid calamity will prompt a long-overdue phase of technological and social experimentation, neither business as usual nor a fatal blow to the office.
This gift, which raised Julien's family to the level of that class of society which deserves respect, struck a deadly blow at all jealousy. He enjoyed a superiority, consecrated by fortune.
The Supreme Court had administered something close to a death blow to Section 2, and only an amendment making clear that the law covered discriminatory outcomes as well as discriminatory purpose could save it.
At the end of the Cretaceous Period, a fatal blow struck the ammonites and most of the nautiloids: the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event -- the same event that killed the non-avian dinosaurs.