Sentence examples for battered area from inspiring English sources

But money for reconstruction in this battered area is still almost nonexistent, officials say, and aid organizations, encumbered by security rules, have been slow to respond.

The council, which wholly supported the new stadium as the basis for planned regeneration of the whole battered area, is now supporting Liverpool staying at Anfield with compulsory purchase powers to ensure the removal of residents whose homes the club want to demolish.

Flatbed trucks ambled along bearing road-making equipment, an apparent response to the premier's call to open the roads into the battered area by midnight Tuesday.

One caveat on transplant sensitivity: no matter how many years have passed, do not move to a formerly battered area and tell a local things are better than before thanks to the lessons of ______.

The boy who grew up playing football in the battered areas around the port now looks back on his three loves in life: Livorno, politics and football.

There also was a glimmer of a political breakthrough in the storm region in the United States this week, as Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, made a tour of battered areas with Barack Obama, the Democratic president.

No decisions have been made about rebuilding in the storm-battered areas — a complicated question that would involve not only homeowners, but also insurers and officials in the state, local and federal governments.

The worst-battered areas will probably be the most southerly, from southern Zambia, southern Malawi and central Mozambique southwards.But the region is better prepared than it used to be to fend off hunger.

With much of the northeastern United States, particularly New Jersey and New York, trying to recover from the damage of Sandy, there may be more Halloween in many foreign cities tonight than in the storm-battered areas of the United States.

* Rain, wind, sleet due to hit Sandy-battered areas.

But on a muggy Labor Day, even as power had been restored to almost all areas of the battered region, that progress was accompanied by new anxiety over more rain on the way.