By afternoon, after a barrage of shells battered the hills around him, Mr. Jaffar and his cousin, Harun, the commander of some of his troops, offered to surrender, contacting the Northern Alliance general, Khalil Anderabi, by walkie-talkie.
Then there was Chris Broad's 162 in 1986, all the more mighty for the fact that the Waca's infamous nets had left him battered, shell-shocked and questioning his worth as a batsman before the game had even started.
Books of campaigns are piled floor to ceiling and there are battered helmets, rusty shell cases, rolled-up maps and regimental memorabilia occupying every spare surface.
After being severely weakened and mismanaged over the last eight years by appointees sent from a hostile White House, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, a tiny agency with a critical safety mission, has been battered into a shell of its former self, unable to protect consumers from dangerous products found on store shelves.
PARIS — The International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday it had discovered "shocking" scenes — including small children next to their mothers' corpses — when its representatives gained access for the first time to parts of Gaza battered by Israeli shelling.
On one visit, it was fried wild watercress, sent by Mr. Takayama's mother in Japan, and shiroki, a tree bud encased in a feather-light shell of batter.
The title will evolve the destructible environments introduced in Battlefield 4, with war zones continually battered by hundreds of shells, creating crater-blasted wastelands.
It is a tyrannical hulk of a thing, its gargantuan grey shell wrenched to and fro as if battered by an intergalactic skirmish, sooty scorch marks burnt across its crumpled mass.
The haunting shell and shredded sails of the Low Speed Chase continue to be battered by waves as the Coast Guard considers salvage options off the environmentally sensitive shoreline.
Specifically, in the past two weeks or so, observers have been physically obstructed from reaching trouble-spots, they have had their vehicles attacked, battered and shot at, and they have been close to bomb and shell explosions.
The restoration of electric power, especially in shell-battered Baghdad, is another top priority for Bechtel.
