The killings last year and the Virginia Tech massacre demonstrate that police dealing with barricaded gunmen need better training and equipment, such as battering rams, said state police Sgt. Douglas Burig, who was in command at the West Nickel Mines Amish School standoff.
The Romans were also masters of siegecraft who used such devices as battering rams, catapults, and ballistae (giant crossbows) to take enemy fortifications.
As Barry observes, such situations include battering relationships, most prostitution, and the sexual abuse of girl children, all of which are common around the world.
He argued that such impasses had been broken in past wars by the development of special materials such as Greek fire, battering rams, catapults, and siege trains.
Intuitively, one would expect some islets would be destroyed rather than released by such a battering.
But, by golly, I didn't expect him to deliver quite such a battering.
Carlos Queiroz, meanwhile, wished North Korea well having inflicted such a battering on them.
By 2020, and at 26 years of age, his body will have taken such a battering it is impossible to know what state it will be in.
The poor chap may need an entire weekend of Vaughan Williams symphonies and Battle of Britain movies to recover from such a battering.
By the time her gentleman caller turns up, the primped and plucked Schumer's self-esteem has taken such a battering that she hides under the bed when he knocks on the door.
