This double whammy can be mitigated only by innovative water management and conservation, and by developing nontraditional supply sources.

As a result, America s efforts to give international effect to its new Iran Sanctions Act constitute a double whammy for India.

Such proposals should not become a double whammy for those States that struck a bargain to pursue peaceful uses of nuclear technology.

China s foreign exchange reserves, indeed, are facing a triple whammy a decline in the US dollar s purchasing power, a fall in the prices of US government securities, and possible inflation in the longer run.

Starting with the advanced countries, the eurozone recession has spread from the periphery to the core, with France entering recession and Germany facing a double whammy of slowing growth in one major export market (China Asia) and outright contraction in others (southern Europe).