Sentence examples for heavily battered from inspiring English sources

Still, there were only gloomy forecasts from the technology sector, and investors looking to put money into stocks after a long, slow season concentrated their buying on the heavily battered retail and consumer products sectors.

The 700-acre site has given up all sorts of treasures in its time: a beautiful horse mask, iron age swords and a human skull, heavily battered with axes – archaeologists thought it had come from a corpse hung over the gate as a warning to enemies.

Downtown traffic was hopelessly snarled here today, without a policeman in sight, just one sign of the chaos from a three-week Israeli incursion that heavily battered West Bank cities, decimated the Palestinian security forces and left some buildings here a vandalized shambles.

But if the Eagles are still a Premier League side this time next year then Holloway could be forgiven for taking another chunk out of his heavily battered bed post.  .

By this time, Guerrier had been completely dismasted and heavily battered.

Monmouth County is a Jersey shore county which was heavily battered by Hurricane Sandy.

But her audience tends toward the reverential (somebody can usually be depended on to thank the Lord for her) and is unlikely to see the funny side of a performance that relies so heavily on battering softer souls into rectitude.

Reports by the United Nations monitoring teams who visited both Saturday and Sunday, including their video footage, suggested that Tremseh, about 22 miles northwest of the central city of Hama, had been battered heavily by government forces.

"The proposed cleanup plan for the Gowanus Canal will make essential progress in removing toxic contaminants from this heavily polluted and battered waterway,"  Judith A. Enck, the E.P.A.'s  regional administrator in New York, said in a statement.

Let those other cities have their bruised, battered and heavily used vehicles.

Oakland's lineup is deeper, but relies heavily on batters who had accomplished little before Mr Beane scooped them up off the scrap heap.