Many have suffered during the recession and have watched in pain as private-sector unions have been battered to the point of ineffectiveness.
In other words, they leave your heels fully exposed, and mine, still callused and battered to a point seemingly beyond return, were in no position to be naked.
Continued violence left both Israelis and Palestinians battered, to a point where Prime Minister Ariel Sharon set up a barrier between the peoples.
Elizabethans would have understood this point, battered as they were by royal propaganda on the need for absolute obedience even if the monarch was a tyrant, which of course Elizabeth was not, except to the few malcontents who maintained the right to depose usurpers and tyrants.
The shares, which would normally yield about 7%, have thus been battered to the point where they now yield nearly 13%.
When he was seventeen, he found a battered point-and-shoot Samsung ECX1 that someone had left on a train.
They return four hours later, leading at bayonet point four battered Chinese men in baseball uniforms with the names torn off, numbered 1,4, 7, and 9.
Instead, it became a brutal exercise in endurance, leaving me so emotionally and physically battered that at one point I saw killing myself as my only way out.
Its gray-granite color and hammering complication give no quarter; but just when our senses are battered to the breaking point, there are those tender folkloric episodes and flashes of humor.
But Paul Krugman, who battered Obama on this point during the election, understands what a wildfire the Democrats will ignite if they push mandates without a public option.
But after a Becker error, we're soon looking at two break points for Murray, who's wild with the first point, battering a backhand way too long.
