One main foe tonight was the Medina Division, a Republican Guard unit that escaped destruction in the Persian Gulf war of 1991 and has, American military officials believe, been battered by American warplanes to the point of being "combat ineffective".
The soldiers dispatched to Gallipoli, Salonika and Mesopotamia would have been better employed, he believes, in battering German defenses on the Western Front — the only place where the kaiser could have been defeated.
While he waits for stem-cell research to develop, Nirav is trading in blue-chip companies whose stocks he believes were unjustly battered in the past week.
The Mets were a good team, bound for the World Series, and they believed they should have battered the relatively anonymous opponent: a struggling 23-year-old named Harry Leroy Halladay.
She believes a batter coating works better than a crumb coating, and to make an onion ring "magical," you should try lightly pickling the onion before frying it.
They believe they are being battered by harsh management when asked to demonstrate what has resulted from the time they spend on research (a significant proportion of our working year).
The right are so drunk on three decades of free-market triumphalism, so used to the left being smashed and battered, that they believe even the mildest deviation from the neo-liberal script is unacceptable.
The shares have been battered because many investors believe that the slump in technology spending will result in declining school enrollments, Mr. Jackson said.
Matsuzaka, who retired the final 10 batters he faced, believed it had been an important first step toward a long-term return to the majors.
SWEET SPOT: I gave its meaning in baseball as "the place somewhere on the 'meat end' of the bat that the batter believes gives him the most power and control of placement.
