The resulting sequence, " Jack Jawbreaker Fights Crime !," was a devastating satire of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's notorious exploitation by DC Comics over Superman.

The most renowned of the dynasty's rulers was Mahmud of Ghazni, who consolidated control over the areas south of the Amu Darya then carried out devastating raids into India.

After nearly 20 years of slavish adherence to the Roman Senate's dictats, Philip had been goaded beyond endurance by the incessant and devastating raiding of the Dardani, a warlike Thraco-Illyrian tribe on his northern border, which his treaty-limited army was too small to counter effectively.

Lloyd George and the Conservative leader Andrew Bonar Law wrote a joint letter of support to candidates to indicate they were considered the official Coalition candidates – this " coupon " as it became known was issued against many sitting Liberal MPs, often to devastating effect, though not against Asquith himself.

The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, peaking in Europe between 1348 and 1350.

The impact was devastating.

The phalanx formation was still vulnerable to cavalry ( the cause of much caution by the Greek forces at the Battle of Plataea ), but used in the right circumstances, it was now shown to be a potentially devastating weapon.

This was a position that inevitably drew her, although unwillingly, into a World War with devastating results for her, since she was less prepared ( both militarily and socially ) for that event than any other Great Power.

The archipelago is subject to cyclical droughts ; a devastating drought began in 1968 and was broken only briefly in 1975, 1978, 1984, and 1986.

It was a devastating defeat and both the chieftains Lugius and Boiorix died.

As a young man, he was influenced by the romantic movement and medievalism, and developed a devastating critique of industrialism.

Smallpox was a serious threat in colonial America, most devastating to Native Americans, but also to Anglo-American settlers.

This task force was used with devastating effect during the Pearl Harbor Attack.

The flag was lost in a devastating defeat at the Battle of Hemmingstedt on 17 February 1500.

Reconstruction from Mitch was still underway when, in early 2001, the country experienced a series of devastating earthquakes that left nearly 2, 000 people dead or missing, 8, 000 injured, and caused severe dislocations across all sectors of Salvadoran society.

But the immediate economic impact of the shift, whatever its technical merit, was devastating to early FM broadcasters.

The effect on Eastern Australia was devastating.

As a result of the devastating Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and recent population boom, new development was plentiful in the city.

But the United States was already gaining quickly when World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ) caused a devastating interruption in the European film industries.

Economist Murray Rothbard wrote that " Bastiat was indeed a lucid and superb writer, whose brilliant and witty essays and fables to this day are remarkable and devastating demolitions of protectionism and of all forms of government subsidy and control.

He was woken by his second understudy, Stepney, who came to his room to signal the devastating final score with his fingers.

The Papal State was itself far from completely pacified ; a savage and devastating war went on from 1361 to 1367 between Rome and Velletri while in 1366-7 there was a general rebellion in Campagna.

The silence oppressed him, made him bend low over the horse's neck as if to hide from a wind that had begun to blow far away and was twisting slowly through the darkness in its slow search.

And then there was a numbing blow to the heart, and another gut-flattening blow to the stomach

This was a doubly bitter blow to the king.

As it was, his absence because of his final illness was a blow to the administration.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

It was the first blow that was always difficult.

Afraid at one and the same time that his work might be turned down -- which would be a blow to his pride even though no one knew he was the author -- and that the work would be accepted, and then that his violent feelings in the matter would certainly betray how deeply concerned he was in spite of himself.

She was personally sloppy, and when she had colds would blow her nose in the same handkerchief all day and keep it, soaking wet, dangling from her waist, and when she gardened she would eat dinner with dirt on her calves.

Not only were the court costs prohibitive, but I was subjected to crippling fines, in addition to usurious interest on the unpaid `` debts '' which the government claimed that Metronome and I owed -- a severe financial blow.

At one time it was the ambition of every saxophone player in every high school band in America to blow like Bird.

Since a fall or blow might have caused it, a cold pack was usually first aid.

When Robinson tried to stretch his blow into a triple, he was cut down in a close play at third, Tuttle to Andy Carey.

Mr. Kennedy was less troubled by that possibility than by the belief that a Geneva breakdown, or even continued stalemate, would mean an unchecked spread of nuclear weapons to other countries as well as a fatal blow to any hope for disarmament.

They could still read the opening: `` Once, I was like you, stepping out of my window at the end of day, and letting the winds blow me gently toward the place I lived in.

Johnston was the highest-ranking casualty of the war on either side, and his death was a strong blow to the morale of the Confederacy.

It may also be because, since 12 people stabbed the victim, none was certain who delivered the killing blow.

Earl Godwin's rebellion against the king in 1051 came as a blow to Ealdred, who was a supporter of the earl and his family.

It was a look as cold as steel, in which there was something threatening, even frightening, and it struck me like a blow.

Machiavelli goes on to reason that Agathocles ' success, in contrast to other criminal tyrants, was due to his ability to mitigate his crimes by limiting them to those that " are applied at one blow and are necessary to one's security, and that are not persisted in afterwards unless they can be turned to the advantage of the subjects ".