Sentence examples for having been battered from inspiring English sources

Little did I know that another nurse had written in a professional journal years before that her "rule of thumb, learned after many years of working with battered women, is to suspect nearly any woman with trauma of having been battered, unless there's incontrovertible evidence to the contrary".

Having been battered by the afternoon wind and rain, Spieth was pragmatic.

Having been battered before, health officials did not rest on their laurels but continued to rely on D.O.T. and, when necessary, detention at Bellevue.

Having spurned an opportunity to equalise from the penalty spot against Hull and having been battered 4-0 by London rivals Spurs, they find themselves again in that all too familiar routine of defeat.

Jones has always been a Eurosceptic and, in support of his "lonely crusade", suggests the left was mistakenly beguiled into supporting the EU having been "battered and demoralised" by Thatcherism.

When Mr. Roberts sketched out his design for the Altair in the summer of 1974, MITS owed about $300,000 to its creditors, having been battered by the boom-and-bust cycle in the electronic calculator business.

Their savings have been battered.

The Colts' offense has been battered.

European "deepening" has been battered.

The Rowland administration has been battered before.

Puerto Rico has been battered by several years of recession.