Sentence examples for battered house from inspiring English sources
"We've taken our share of blows," said Bill Ghent, an insurance agent who stood on Thursday staring at his own battered house in a neighborhood of houses battered by a system of violent tornadoes that swept through the Midwest and South this week leaving at least 13 dead, 6 of them just blocks from Mr. Ghent's house.
Marybeth, who up until now couldn't even think about putting Christmas lights up in her battered house, has suddenly reconsidered.
JAKARTA — As a flare-red sun set, a group of laborers in their 20s and 30s gathered on the bare floor of a battered house wedged beneath power lines in an industrial part of Jakarta.
She still seemed stunned on a recent afternoon, surrounded by clamoring children in a battered house they share with her divorced father, a 58-year-old Marine Corps veteran recently laid off from his construction job, and her sister, a receptionist with two children.
An Iraq veteran with a shoulder full of scar tissue, a younger brother to care for (their parents are dead) and a battered house that the bank is threatening to seize, he reluctantly goes along with the heist and immediately comes to regret his decision.
Once the US's fourth largest city and now its 18th, Detroit's woes escalated during the recession as its already battered housing market collapsed and unemployment soared.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Groundbreaking on new homes fell more than expected in December to its lowest in over a year, suggesting the battered housing sector remained a roadblock to a recovery.
BRUSSELS -- The European Commission on Monday lowered its forecast for growth in the European Union this year as world trade decreases and consumers pull back in the face of weakening employment and battered housing markets.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Claims for jobless aid rose last week, the government reported on Thursday, but a gauge of future home sales rose in a hopeful sign for the battered housing sector.
The failure of any of the usual fiscal and monetary policy tools so far raises questions about what the Federal Reserve and federal government can do in the near term to counter the forces that have battered housing prices and pushed down the stock market and are now causing a hiring slowdown.
Some possible relief lies ahead for the battered housing sector.
