Sentence examples for it battered down from inspiring English sources

None of it was easy on the ears, but it battered down walls, particularly when it came to women in electronic music.

No sooner was the door closed than it was battered down and fell into the room.

It uprooted trees, battered down utility poles, damaged homes and cars, closed roads and knocked out street and traffic lights.

The state of it could have made Superman weep: its folding door swung unhinged, its shelf was battered down and its frame was dilapidated.

The cheap prices of its commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians' intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate".

"The cheap prices of commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians' intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate.

MP3.com's stock, battered down from a high of $63.31 in July of 1999, when it symbolized the online alternatives to major labels, rose $1.84 today, to close at $4.85.

So those were the doors that this crazed soldier battered down, before he shot women and children, gathered their bodies into a pile and set them on fire.

You would expect countries battered down by such calamities to grow more slowly than the average, so the correlation between aid and slow growth is false.

The researchers also insisted that the new levees could be battered down again if the corps did not armor them against erosion with concrete, rocks or other materials.

After some of the family members fled into the home, the officers battered down the front door, and shouted racial insults before leaving, according to the suit.