Like Laura Delgado, many middle and working-class families I talked with had become so beaten down by the economy that they had let go of their dreams for a better life.
Destinations that were once on the road less travelled have become the beaten track, while the beaten track has in many cases been paved over, illuminated in neon and transformed into a fast lane for travellers in turbo-Tevas.
One of his many conspiracy theories, espoused in a newspaper he owned, was that Israel would become overcrowded or beaten down by the Palestinians, and would then try to take over Hungary as a second Jewish state.
This approach works, though: Theron vanishes before our eyes to become a woman beaten down to nothing by a life of rape, incest, teenage pregnancy and decades of homelessness and prostitution.
Jemal Pasha, one of the architects of the 1915 genocide, and – alas – Turkey's first feminist, Halide Edip Adivar, helped to run this orphanage of terror in which Armenian children were systematically deprived of their Armenian identity and given new Turkish names, forced to become Muslims and beaten savagely if they were heard to speak Armenian.
For his beliefs and his courage, he was held in Butyrka prison without trial, where he was beaten, became ill and died.
Frankel, who has never been beaten, becomes the second colt in history to win seven Group One races in consecutive starts, equalling Rock of Gibraltar's 2002 record.
Ms. Tassio and other guards later told investigators that Mr. George, who was beaten, had become enraged when they tried to stop him from committing suicide.
Sands remarks again that on inspection trips such as this one he has become wed to being "beaten on the head and shoulders" by almost everyone he encounters, not just the odd ecologue attired in alienation.
They became targets and were beaten".
