Urgent-stuck on booting windows screen-need a method to shutdown

My MacBookPro13 mid2009 stuck on booting windows. I can't restart, I can't shutdown, is there something for emergency shutdown? I tried to hold power button, but nothing. Now is running on battery hopping to shutdown and to work after.
Thanks for your help

i tried to hold down the power button for minutes and for nothing...thanks for your reply
I ran out of battery, switched it on and everything works fine now....
in the future how do I turn off if holding down the power button does not work?
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First I followed this great guide (Thanks Daniel):
http://
hodgin.ca/2012/10/02/creating-a-uefibios-windows-7-usb-and-installing-to-gpt-partitions/
STOP AFTER STEP 13!
1. Open a command line in administrator mode
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5. type SELECT DISK # where # represents the number of your USB drive. Get this right or you will wipe a different drive out.
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http://
hodgin.ca/2012/10/02/creating-a-uefibios-windows-7-usb-and-installing-to-gpt-partitions/
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