"I was showered with metal wreckage and wounded in my legs, " he told Reuters news agency.
The authors point out that countries might have suffered disasters anyway, without being showered with money.
He was showered with gifts from the walkabout including a number of enamelled elephants.
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Aretino may have been rebuffed, but as he claimed, certain "Gherardos and Tommasos" were showered with gifts.
During the campaign, voters were showered with stickers and T-shirts, songs and dances, platitudes and more songs.
Like the original Aibo, the robo-pet now acts happy when showered with attention and likes to be petted.
Over the past decade schools have been showered with directives on everything from school meals to classroom layout.
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"As the Raiders ran between the double lines of men they were showered with blows without mercy, " writes Sneden.
She's something of an icon in Europe, where she has been showered with honors and fat sales for decades.
Many school systems that were not showered with extra funds did much better.
On Tuesday, Mayweather was occasionally showered with boos from the pro-Cotto crowd, but each time he smiled, as if unruffled.
Earlier, his black chauffeur-driven car was showered with pink rose petals as it approached the stage in Pakistan's main city.
Bolivia has been showered with gifts, including asphalt for its highways, student grants and the indefinite loan of two large helicopters.
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She has been showered with awards for her efforts on behalf of the environment, education, women, children, health issues and the arts.
College graduates with nothing more than an idea were showered with money.
In the days when giftgiving was acceptable among journalists, my father was showered with perks that he would share with me and my brother.
If you do not fancy being showered with soggy tomatoes, you can watch the spectacle in dry comfort on Canal 9, Valencia's local TV channel.
As the Islanders celebrated, Tavares was showered with chants of "M-V-P, M-V-P" one day after he was announced as a finalist for the Hart Trophy.
The Palestinians were showered with billions of dollars in international aid.
Why in the world did about-to-go-to-jail former Associate Attorney General Webster Hub-bell suddenly, miraculously, get showered with lucrative consulting contracts adding up to several hundred thousand dollars?
Why in the world did about-to-go-to-jail former associate attorney general Webster Hubbell suddenly, miraculously, get showered with lucrative consulting contracts adding up to several hundred thousand dollars?
In the midst of the reverential awe and fascination with Pedro Martinez, Burns allowed for another former Red Sox icon to be showered with praise and adulation.
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The EU's foreign-policy chief, Cathy Ashton, is being showered with ideas: Germany says EU support (including lifting barriers to agricultural trade) should be linked to democratic reforms.
As she quietly hovered in the background, West was showered with congratulations, hugs and handshakes, declarations of his genius and even a few who took to quoting his lyrics.
This has its own dangers: public education in Brazil is badly run and needs to be reformed before it is showered with money, or else much will be wasted.
General Electric ( GE - news - people )-owned NBC's 30 Rock, which was once again showered with Emmy praise despite ranking about 60th among all prime-time series.
Mickelson was showered with support from day one after coming to Long Island with a request from Amy that he won the silver US Open trophy to brighten her hospital room.
He has long denied any wrongdoing, and defense attorney James Thomas told jurors that his client often was showered with cash gifts from city workers and political supporters during holidays and birthdays.
After Mau, at 18, was made a palu or initiated navigator, hung with garlands and showered with yellow turmeric to show the knowledge he had gained, no other Pacific islander was initiated for 39 years.
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