Sentence examples for violent battered from inspiring English sources

Because the stories would be based on real people, we would have to confront one of the truths we seem to resist most: they are us, they are as violent, battered, hurt and scared as we could be under those circumstances.

Two opposite paths to avoid crisis, and another violent battering of financial markets.

In 1748, a violent storm battered his vessel off the coast of County Donegal, Ireland so severely that he called out to God for mercy, a moment that marked his spiritual conversion.

He showed photos of a recent violent storm that battered Alaska's west coast.

An unusually violent rainstorm, which battered the island for several hours yesterday, accompanied by winds exceeding 100 kilometres an hour, triggered flash flooding.

After months of careful preparation, during which six underwater platforms were built for the cruise ship to be righted onto, Monday's operation was postponed by three hours from its scheduled 6 a.m. start after a violent electrical storm battered the Tuscan island overnight, which delayed last-minute checks.

But Boris N. Yeltsin's Russia was in perpetual crisis, the threats to its precarious democracy were violent, the post in post-cold war was wobbly, and President Yeltsin, was vehement, impetuous, battered by legislative mutineers and needy.

A violent weekend storm had battered the fields with the kind of hailstones that could vindicate Chicken Little.

(Violent women who batter male spouses are transgressive in many threatening ways -- not just physical).

After singer Chris Brown downgraded his violent outbursts from battering women to battering furniture after an unpleasant "Good Morning America" interview, the public breathed a sigh of relief that his temper was no longer an immediate danger to the people around him.

The piecemeal road, shattered and washed away in many places, finally disappears, testimonial to the violent winter storms that have battered this section of coast.