Sentence examples for mangled from inspiring English sources

And a programme on the Northern Ireland hunger strikes that had a rather vivid contribution from Ian Paisley was mangled for fear of it projecting a nasty image of Britain.

His leg was mangled: a snapped bone, a dislocated ankle, ruptured ligaments.

Many of the seven carriages were mangled and rolled on their sides.

"I have done a good deal of work in my way," he wrote to his close friend Charles Brace at the height of his success, "but it is constantly and everywhere arrested, wrecked, mangled and misused and it is not easy to get above intense disappointment and mortification".

The original deal had been cobbled together in such a hurry that key clauses were mangled.

Specialists working for a unit that collects the DNA of suspected terrorists had argued that previous missile attacks on targets in Somalia ordered by George Bush's administration had so mangled those killed that it was hard to identify the bodies after the event.

You won't hear the real president confessing to that.For the most part, the cast speak a mix of Sinhalese and mangled English.

"How can anyone judge who has never seen his buddies mangled or been shot at himself?" asked an Australian military trainer in 1946.Most of the book is about combat at close quarters—how men were trained to kill, why they fought (for comrades and the respect of comrades, mostly) and what role doctors and clergymen played in combat.

This time, the post-election swing is against it.In this section False start A slap in the face Reality check Mangled messages ReprintsBesides bad polls, problems now loom over the government's handling of the economy.

That is why, when you try to post a message on a blog, sign up with a new website or make a purchase online, you will often be asked to examine an image of mangled text and type the letters into a box.

They may be horribly mangled and over-simplified, so that they bear little resemblance to their original design and layout.