Sentence examples for battered bottom from inspiring English sources

Five teams lost $12 million or more last season, according to Forbes, and forcing player salaries as far down as possible could be of vital importance to their battered bottom line.

Mulcahy took over a battered giant battered ego and battered bottom line.

Formenti was brilliantly attuned to the violence of much of the music - passages in which he thumped the keyboard with his elbows, pumped the piano's pedals, and battered the bottom notes in a pummelling ostinato - but he did not connect these moments.

The only trouble with making a lot of acquisitions is that they can batter the bottom line.

At the annual meeting yesterday of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the country's second-largest lender, the chairman, John T. Ralph, told shareholders that slumping stock markets were battering the bottom line and that they should expect only modest profit growth this fiscal year.

LAS VEGAS — When the last recession battered the nation, the bottom fell out in Las Vegas.

Such a move would reduce the fees American pays to list its fares on travel agents' sites and would give a boost to its bottom line, battered by years of falling fares.

According to estimates by the Center for Asia Pacific Aviation, consultancy in Sydney, airline losses in the Asia-Pacific region exceeded $10 billion last year, with airlines' bottom lines battered by soaring oil prices, losses on fuel hedging contracts, and declining passenger traffic.

They are still sensitive to heat and battering, and the bottom is always opened up, exposing the chip.

THE BOTTOM LINE -- Battered by rumors of an imminent bankruptcy-court filing, Delta Air Lines had a market capitalization of about $143.9 million at the opening of trading yesterday.

When I finally "hit bottom," I was battered, bruised and broken.