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battered
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The firemen battered down the door.
Tom's daughter pretended not to know him when he came to pick her up from school in his battered old car.
Movie subtitles
Carolina shows up, and she's battered and disoriented.
I presume you are one of the gentlemen slightly, shall we say, battered by the war?
It's a bit battered, sir.
Of course, by the time I got home, it was battered to bits.
Hey buddy, this door is battered!
Here's the story of that ship and the men who sailed. to the battered beaches of the Pacific in World War ll.
There the battered French miraculously rallied at the Marne River. and in a series of unexpected counterattacks, drove the Germans back.
And, of course, he has the battered old hat. that he wouldn't give up for the crown of England.
His battered and cringing ego emerges victorious.
She was battered for 6 years.
THEY LIE AT HIS FEET AS BATTERED MONUMENTS TO WHAT WAS, BUT IS NO MORE.
Or do you think that what has battered on your soul for twenty years has been nothing?
At the lower unit of the first Krajina brigade the second alpine battalion was battered of the Prince Eugen division.
This silence, living cut off, this feeling of the battered soul finally beginning to straighten out.
He's all battered up.
Both times you were all battered up, just like MacFay was.
It was ten days before Raeburn's battered body was recovered.
And now for the news. One of the largest daylight raids, 5,000 Allied planes. battered 27 invasion area targets in Holland, Belgium and France.
Battered grey Sedan, 1941.
The head was battered in and other mutilations carried out.
Poor old wolf. I came out a little battered by this adventure.
His head was battered in.
A schoolmaster with his head battered in.
A schoolmaster with his head battered in is found in the woods.
When he was battered and hurt on the high road, he was in good health.
There, the battered French rallied their forces at the Marne river and, in a series of unexpected counterattacks, drove the Germans back.
No, the west wind battered it.
Look at me, I've weathered worse storms than this. Yet here I am, still un-battered.
There, the battered French miraculously rallied their forces at the Marne River and, in a series of unexpected counterattacks, drove the Germans back.
We picked up a poor fellow, badly battered and half drowned. - just off the coast of New Zealand.
They battered the graveyard with cannonfire.
This silence, living cut off this feeling of the battered soul finally beginning to straighten out.
A battered old police box?
The tyrant has not battered at them?
They was pretty badly battered up.
And that's stuck in the mud being battered by a load of Roundheads.
Frankenstein - ripped up, wiped out, battered, shattered, creamed and reamed!
Gave my poor, battered ego a big boost.
She probably battered Arlene over the head with the blue driftwood and then finished her off with a little pressure on the carotid artery.
Battered by life.
News and current affairs
The international community should support Mali's gradual process of renewal where it counts - on the ground in the country's conflict-battered communities.
But voters in the battered lands of the eurozone seem to have reached their own damning conclusions about their elected leaders months ago.
Obama swung into action, now not just a suspect candidate but a trusted president whose services were sorely needed by the battered population of the East Coast.
As world leaders gather in Johannesburg to discuss global environmental threats, many parts of the planet are battered by floods, droughts, harvest failures, massive forest fires, and even new diseases.
Iraq and North Korea have likewise been battered by sanctions.
Markets seem to believe that there is light at the end of the tunnel for the economy and for the battered profits of corporations and financial firms.
The IMF's response to its new mission of assessing global imbalances will thus test its battered political legitimacy.
MAYNOOTH, IRELAND - For months, the European Union has been battered by economic storms that now seriously threaten a protracted Europe-wide recession.
After being hunted down in a dirty drainpipe, he was displayed like a bloody trophy before being battered and shot by a lynch mob.
World leaders must help the battered peace process pick itself up from the canvas, clear its head, and fight on.
Yes, Japan will rebuild, which will undoubtedly spur some type of recovery in its disaster-battered economy.
How else can the crisis-battered housing market finally clear for the remainder of US homeowners?
The recently enacted 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15) has all the right ingredients to produce the ultimate buffer between the dynamism of the East and the perils of a crisis-battered West.
Failure to act quickly on this program would leave China far too vulnerable to the inevitable next shock in a crisis-battered world.
The European Union's reputation has been battered, despite bold leadership from Germany, Sweden, and the European Commission.
Given their large, battered holdings of peripheral eurozone countries' sovereign debt, many of Europe's thinly capitalized banks would be insolvent if their assets were marked to market.
While this approach has succeeded in boosting financial markets, it has failed to cure bruised and battered developed economies, which remain mired in subpar recoveries and plagued with deflationary risks.
The problem continues to be the crisis-battered American consumer.
Some possibilities: debt forgiveness to speed up the deleveraging process; creative saving policies that restore financial security to crisis-battered Americans; and, of course, jobs and the income they generate.
It has acted as quickly as any international bureaucracy can to establish new lines of credit for battered emerging-market countries.
In India, Mahatma Gandhi rejuvenated the country's soul, which had been battered by colonialism, and Jawaharlal Nehru established its democratic political culture.
Only a fifth of the 200,000 soldiers remained, worn out, battered, but defiant.