Sentence examples for taken a battering from inspiring English sources

Financial markets have taken a battering.

The economy has also taken a battering.

Liberal democracy has taken a battering.

For City analysts that means that retailers' profits are likely to have taken a battering.

Since then the notion of peak oil on which many such forecasts were based has taken a battering.

Conversely, the myth of countries that were "good to the Jews", such as Denmark and Italy, has taken a battering.

Even before the court-martial, the government's self-congratulatory posture after the conflict had taken a battering.

In the six years since, the reputations of those high priests of capitalism, academic economists, have taken a battering.

Currently in charge of Turkey (although probably not for much longer) his stock has taken a battering.

The Hole In The Wall gives an area that's taken a battering a real sense of identity that will soon be gone for ever.

Asia online Paper lions More pain, please Please try later ReprintsNevertheless, Franco Bernabe, Telecom Italia's chief executive, and his fellow directors have taken a battering.