Now suddenly out of the blue he had a hard hit.

Particularly hard hit has been the medical infrastructure of the planet.

Allowed when defending against a hard hit on the beach.

His hardest hit was a sharp single to right in the fourth.

Basketball was one of the hard hit sports due to the boycott.

Owens, who had to leave the game twice in the first half after taking hard hits, knew he was good.

Particularly hard hit has been Japan, which imports about 95 percent of its petroleum.

And they were, at this moment, reconstructing the details of a hard hit.

A strong focus was also placed on the well-being of residents in the harder hit areas.

He fell again, a second hard hit, this time in the stomach, and then tumbled a few more feet.

Especially hard hit was the machinery sector, considered the key to modernization.

"Right now the grunts are performing a hard hit on a house," he said.

Scientists are also surveying property owners in hard hit areas.

"The guerrillas are taking some very hard hits," he said.

Seaver especially was a hard hit to the fan base.

This season, however, the reign of the jocks has taken a hard hit.

Mark Messier threw a hard hit and got the worst of it.

Among the hardest hit has been Aerospace, which faces a tough time over the next two to three years.

The track's Safer barrier had absorbed most of the hard hit.

The younger generation, which would be just starting their wealth accumulation, has been the most hard hit.

He had a reputation of hard hits, sometimes resulting in penalties.

Among those hard hit are commercial airline pilots, who by law cannot fly passengers after they turn 60.

The hardest hit was the wholesale and retail sector, where 4,900 jobs were lost.

Even in popular categories like computers and their accessories, margins took a hard hit.

This allows him to take much harder hits with minimal damage.