| They will get hit with a double whammy of now paying duty on supplies when they can afford repairs. |
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| For a team struggling to keep going, the double whammy of docking points and insisting on a replay is hard to fathom. |
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| And foreign creditors are getting a double whammy, as bond prices have begun to fall in sympathy with the dollar. |
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| Losing Hampton could be a double whammy, a blow to the Mets and a boost to their N.L. East arch rival, the Braves. |
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| We've had a double whammy in the last couple of months in that oil prices have gone up and the Aussie has gone down, very, very sharply. |
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| Many states, feeling the pinch, cut back their funding to local governments, dealing them a double whammy. |
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| The steak combined the double whammy of being simultaneously tasteless and chewy, while the haggis was simply superb. |
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| Now my back pain is not as bad as it was, although I think this is due to the double whammy of tui-na and the radiotherapy. |
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| The decision to decrease the duration of water supply by two hours in a day is a double whammy. |
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| As a result of this double whammy, the transfer market has, largely, gone into cold storage. |
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| In recent years, software publishers have hit consumers with a double whammy that very likely escapes the consumer price index. |
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| Lancaster received a double whammy as Avignon scored two quick tries and ran out 8-4 winners despite a late score to Squires. |
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| I happen to know the member's major community has a major doctor shortage so it is a double whammy. |
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| The decrease in good cholesterol and the increase in bad cholesterol is often the double whammy effect. |
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| But isn't this the temporary result of a double whammy, the introduction of the new congestion charge without a reduction in fuel tax? |
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| With tax and interest rate rises on the way, Scottish borrowers are bracing themselves for a double whammy, while savers can look forward to higher returns. |
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| Last season's saviour Lee Nogan registered his first points in the chase for this term's Evening Press player of the year award with a double whammy. |
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| To be honest I was never really into Birthdays and the double whammy of the big 4 0 with the continued concern for Bonnie really put the whole thing to bed. |
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| This week includes a double whammy as the little ones can get involved in drama workshops using themes from the RISK exhibition in a bid to boost self-esteem. |
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| Indeed after Shamrocks hit Saval with a double whammy early on in the half, they went on to dominate affairs and they looked the strongest team at the finish. |
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| Can we survive this sporting drought for another couple of weeks until the double whammy of the new football season and the Olympics hit with a vengeance? |
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| And it would, of course, be a double whammy if this very progress towards change and reform in Turkey were to fall foul of the crisis. |
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| Who can forget in 2012 the double whammy of GOP Senate candidates comments about rape? |
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| Or forced on him by the double whammy of tyrannical father and angelic, but deceased, mother? |
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| As a double whammy, the lower-power licence-holders who are actually offering access are not allowed to apply for the levy. |
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| The double whammy of a bad diagnosis plus the inability to ever consider being pregnant cannot be emphasized too much. |
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| It is really a double whammy of trade liberalization and passive privatization which is so deathly and so worrisome. |
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| Small towns need to have the mills' tax base to maintain their infrastructure, so it is a double whammy for them. |
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| Mr. Speaker, thousands of Canadians who have lost their jobs due to the recession now face a double whammy when they apply for EI benefits. |
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| It will be a welcome boost after being harshly hit by the double whammy of global recession and the attack in which one of its New York hotels was severely damaged. |
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| Some families get closer and bond together, but for those families that do not and then experience the double whammy of divorce and immigration, if you want to call it that, the stresses are really considerable. |
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| This would be inflationary, as would any commensurate increase in our already high annual circulation tax, resulting in car owners who had already paid VRT on existing vehicles being hit by a double whammy. |
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| The export sector is expected to be hardest hit by the double whammy of a severe shrinkage in trade financing and the curtailment of import demand in developed countries. |
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| If farmer Jones is a grain farmer and does the unthinkable, that is, he sells his wheat or barley to the Americans, then Mr. Jones faces a double whammy. |
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| Add to this equation the fiscal and budgetary problems facing all western governments and the result has been what might be described as a double whammy of radically different requirements and a rapidly shrinking market. |
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| Jealous of the devotion Hippolytos offers to her virgin rival, Artemis, Aphrodite levels our hero with a nasty double whammy. |
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| But last week, a substance-abuse researcher described data indicating that cigarettes may actually provide an addictive double whammy. |
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| Los Angeles faces a double whammy of slumping tax revenues and rising police overtime and legal costs, officials said Tuesday. |
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| The double whammy of the manufacturing crisis and the international financial crisis has resulted in an increasing number of steelworkers joining many other workers in the lines of the unemployment offices. |
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| Ten years of federal budgets: double whammy for women. |
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| The plan is a double whammy for taxpayers. |
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| In fact, we would have a double whammy out of this. |
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