There is a big difference between trading a battered group for a bounce, or buying strong groups for an extended move.
Close to Taumarunui, a small town in the south of the region, chef and Maori food expert Charles Royal guides a battered 4x4 along a dirt track.
Later, he was reunited with Zanab in the back of a battered Mercedes in a less-damaged part of town, part of a convoy of vehicles that would evacuate Bint Jbeil's few remaining residents to a hospital further north.
Australia 's centre-right government, which faces a federal election this year, saw its supporters battered in a Queensland state election, as voters switched to Pauline Hanson's One Nation anti-immigration party.
Also, the officer would be required to help a battered woman to file a complaint, to find an alternative residence and to obtain medical treatment.
His protection is a battered AK-47 and a new blue British armored vest.
The stock has been battered by a host of concerns, most recently some decidedly mixed reviews for the iPad Mini.
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In 1854 he had battered down a courthouse door in Boston in an attempt to free the fugitive slave Anthony Burns.
Some argue that a purged balance sheet, coupled with a battered share price, makes it a much more attractive takeover target.
The company has been beaten and battered by a combination of housing and credit woes, coupled with outspoken investor opposition and short-selling.
BofA has also seen its reputation and balance sheet battered by a controversial Merrill Lynch acquisition and damaging Wikileaks rumors.
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The reason Bunge stock plunged before is that the markets saw its earnings were going to be battered by a double-whammy in the fertilizer business.
In 2008-09 already troubled U.S. banks were being battered by a recently reenacted, arcane accounting rule that was gratuitously destroying the book value of bank capital.
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But the company was battered by a huge growth in personal injury claims as the UK compensation culture encouraged more and more people to sue employers.
As he notes, sentiment on the sector has been battered by a weak financial report from Ciena and disappointing guidance from Finisar, among other factors.
Battered by a scandal involving a cover-up of defects, it is also in even worse shape than Nissan, whose domestic market share has been falling for 26 years.
"Sentiment is severely battered by a string of negative news, especially the earnings warnings from some blue chip companies like ZTE, " said Zhang Gang, analyst at Central China Securities.
He still drives a battered '84 Oldsmobile, and a few weeks ago in New Hampshire he bought new dress shoes to replace a pair he'd owned for 25 years.
These stone tools generally consisted of sharp flakes battered off a stone core, but early hominids also did more sophisticated flaking and retouching to sharpen and straighten their blades.
Battered by a property crash, a banking crisis, a devalued currency and a decline in exports, the beleaguered economy provides a challenge for even the most competent of administrations.
But, after the visitors had been battered at a succession of five-metre scrums, conceding numerous penalties, eventually referee David Rose had no option but to award a penalty try which Goode converted.
Since the start of the fiscal year in April, India's industrial output has contracted in six of the 10 months till January, reflecting the weak state of the economy, which has been battered by a mix of domestic problems including high inflation and wide fiscal and current account deficits.
To be sure, Obama has been battered by a series of struggles, starting with the economy, but including a series of events that were at least initially beyond his control -- from the Gulf oil disaster to a Republican minority that by any objective standard has tried to block him at every single turn -- and dragged down his approval ratings.
A-Rod's been battered lately by a steady stream of gossip-column fodder detailing his penchant for strippers, alleged trysts with Madonna and an ugly split with his wife, Cynthia.
Howard Balter, who drives a battered Toyota littered with books in Hebrew, is a frumpy math whiz and the operations guy.
Each joint was crowned with a little gray stone of skin, and each heel was like the battered end of a club.
Baltimore (CNN) -- Baltimore police say they made an arrest in a violent robbery in March that left a man battered and stripped of his clothes on a street while onlookers laughed and did nothing to help.
The town consisted of a couple of hundred houses that seemed to have been airlifted to the wind-battered top of a desolate mountain, which was surrounded on three sides by even higher, more foreboding peaks.
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