• In 1854 he had battered down a courthouse door in Boston in an attempt to free the fugitive slave Anthony Burns.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'White Heat'

  • You would expect countries battered down by such calamities to grow more slowly than the average, so the correlation between aid and slow growth is false.

    ECONOMIST: Development

  • When other games got battered down by scandals and undermined by selfish pretenders, at least there was Roger and Rafa, 26 Grand Slams between them, a pair of all-timers, holding the line.

    WSJ: Jason Gay: Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal's Rough Patch

  • They work on their old, beaten down, battered computers, and they sneak into Internet cafes at night and download their material to the Internet so that people can see what's going on.

    NPR: Gault Book Details 'Africa's Renaissance'

  • In June, the company announced that it was discontinuing work on two drugs, and, like most of the biotech sector, its stock has been battered: Shares are down more than 70% this year.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • He took over in January, after Mr Lazaridis and his co-CEO Jim Balsillie stepped down, battered by the crisis at the Blackberry company which probably explained the tensions of our interview the previous spring.

    BBC: Blackberry boss - don't underestimate us

  • In the 30-metre stretch of no-man's-land between the borders, a Baghdad family beds down in a battered Mercedes.

    ECONOMIST: Iraq's neighbours close their doors

  • Dusk falls and he shuts up shop, swings a leg over his battered bicycle and pedals away down the road, as reggae music drifts out from an open doorway, and a troupe of fruit bats traces lazy circles in the twilight.

    BBC: The perfect trip: The Seychelles

  • Even the weather slows things down: six cyclones battered north-western Australia in 2006, and another is now prompting closures at several mines and ports.

    ECONOMIST: Mining

  • But TXN shares have already been seriously battered, and expectations have been ratcheting down.

    FORBES: Connect

  • He says elected officials may be hesitant to create yet another victims fund, but without a fund, he says, battered New Orleans court system could break down under the strain of post-Katrina lawsuits.

    NPR: Lawsuits Filed Over New Orleans Levee Breaks

  • The Welsh side surged forward and although Roberts was repelled at the first attempt, Davies battered his way between two Toulon tacklers to touch down.

    BBC: Cardiff Blues 28-21 Toulon

  • Ithaca did not specify when the field was closed, but last month the east coast of Scotland was battered by severe gales which caused damage from Shetland down to North Berwick.

    BBC: Flare from platform

  • Investors will have to determine if the current setback is enough to derail the move towards nuclear, or if confidence from a giant like China will once again boost the battered market. (Read Speculators Push Uranium Prices Down, China Keeps Long Term Prospects Intact).

    FORBES: Uranium And Nuclear Stocks Feel The Shock Waves Of Fukushima Meltdown

  • They repeatedly battered at the line, only to see that attack break down as Jonathan Davies dropped the ball in midfield.

    BBC: Scarlets 25-8 Ulster

  • Even if the climax feels fantastical (well suited to the horror-friendly talents of the director, Stuart Gordon), you should stay for the battered irony of the anticlimax, which finds our hero settling down, once again, to the rigors of a regular life.

    NEWYORKER: Edmond

  • At the crossroads of the battered housing market and below-trend levels of consumer spending, it will come down to execution for the home-improvement retailers as housing rises off the bottom and the economy continues its slow rebound.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Recovering from a collapse two days earlier that sent them home on the brink of elimination instead of tied, the Nets battered the Bulls on the boards and forced Chicago into being the team that wilted down the stretch.

    WSJ: Nets win 110-91, cut Bulls' lead to 3-2

  • Strapped into a thick knee brace, a battered blue ball cap yanked low on his head, the Finn chuffed along the baseline, chasing down balls with his choppy ground strokes.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • He has been battered from pillar to post in his 18 months, some of it his own making, some of it cast down upon him.

    BBC: Chick Young's view

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