Sentence examples for generally beaten from inspiring English sources

Short of an Enron-scale disaster, the Big Four have generally beaten back suits or settled them for affordable sums.

Brian Gendreau, market strategist for the Financial Network, said recent economic reports on areas like manufacturing and jobs have been "coming in on the strong side," and corporate earnings have generally beaten expectations.

Nonetheless, wines are out there, generally off the beaten track, like the Lieb pinot blanc.

He was continually beaten and generally despised, his life reduced to misery, loneliness and constant fear.

According to the blogger ethos, he says, "Republicans, whether staunchly conservative or not, were to be stomped, beaten and generally humiliated.

Among the 500 largest mutual funds, 16 bear their managers' names, and, generally, they have handily beaten the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index over the last five years, returning 4.95percentt a year, on average, in contrast to an annual loss of 1.61percentt for the index, Morningstar has calculated.

Certainly some well-trod ground is trod here again, but Scorsese generally stays off the beaten path.

The protagonists are generally "good" (or weak) and beaten down by society.

While Lynne would appear to be on a hiding to nothing by tackling the venerated Dusty Springfield songbook, Marshall generally veers well off the beaten track in choosing her material; and even in familiar territory - as when revisiting her own 'Metal Heart' from Moon Pix - she has a tendency to burn the map.

For instance, the Veterans Health Administration — whose delays in delivering treatment throughout its system has been the focus of recent scandal — is struggling to cope with veterans who generally are physically much more beaten up, broken down, and busted than were veterans of previous wars.

Add to the mix a general public that's beaten, depressed, apathetic, over worked, under paid, over medicated (prescribed or otherwise), and generally misinformed or ill-informed and there's not much fight left.