Sentence examples for and battered by a from inspiring English sources

For in the five months since Mr Berlusconi promised to guarantee "the right of Italians not to be afraid", his security package has been chiselled away by Eurocrats in Brussels and battered by a brusque contact with reality.

That's served up at the Met, which ended its season on Saturday night -- a little bruised and battered by a year that was tough on ticket sales and administrative leadership -- with the bang of Wagner's "Götterdämmerung".

The company has been beaten and battered by a combination of housing and credit woes, coupled with outspoken investor opposition and short-selling.

The voices of reason are being drowned out by a conservative consensus and battered by a false "bipartisanship".

I am well aware ballet flats may not have the killer look of a high heel, but once you have been bruised and battered by a mule, the pain makes you rethink your footwear choices.

And speaking of our energy-intenstive way of life... Purple mountain majesties: If our mountains are purple these days, it"s 'cause they've been bruised and battered by mountaintop mining removal, a practice which entails blasting the tops off mountains and dumping the resulting rubble into creeks and streams.

After being stifled by Javier Vázquez and battered by Puerto Rico, the Americans have a do-or-die game against the surprising Netherlands on Sunday.

DRENCHED and battered by Hurricane Irene, and facing a clean-up bill pushing $10 billion, residents on the east coast of America have understandably had more on their minds over the past week than the earthquake which struck the Piedmont region of Virginia a day before the tropical storm swept ashore.

Surrounded by 6,500 low-lying islets and battered by ferocious waves for 365 days a year, the island has little choice but to keep things local.

Ocwen Mortgage Servicing, once the nations leading non-bank servicer is on the ropes; beaten and battered by the last federal agency with a modicum of concern for Main Streeters: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Martinez, the Lobos' senior leader, eventually left the court to get four stitches, but there was no sewing back together third-seeded New Mexico, which was beaten and battered by 11th-seeded Washington, 82-64, in an East Region second-round game.