Sentence examples for was battered down from inspiring English sources

No sooner was the door closed than it was battered down and fell into the room.

The state of it could have made Superman weep: its folding door swung unhinged, its shelf was battered down and its frame was dilapidated.

She was living in a room in a beat-up house on the hard side of Somerville, Massachusetts, and had been dead, the coroner guessed, for at least five days before her door was battered down.

The researchers also insisted that the new levees could be battered down again if the corps did not armor them against erosion with concrete, rocks or other materials.

What is more, few of the candidates have been willing to take on the city's frayed primary health care system, which has been battered down by poor reimbursement rates from both public and commercial insurance and often does not exist in some of the city's poorest neighborhoods.

"The generalized law of silence that is battering down upon our events and our living spaces is soon to relegate the City of Lights to the rank of European capital of sleep," a group of music promoters wrote in an online petition, to be submitted to the mayor of Paris and several government ministries on Jan . 31

"Winds are incredibly strong up here and the rain is battering down," said BBC Wales' Charlotte Dubenskij who is in Llandre in Ceredigion, west Wales.

With the relationship-raising approach to persuasion, the barriers to change need not be battered down.

But the defences around Klitschko's chin cannot be snuck through: they have to be battered down.

And even more than reputation-damaging sex abuse, non-profits face the broader and deeper slump in business confidence that's been battered down further by this week's Congressional failure (entirely predictably) to agree on deficit reduction measures, and by Europe's sovereign debt crisis threatening to engulf everyone.

Since July 2nd they have been battering down the ancient entrance with picks and shovels to "destroy its mystery" as part of a city-wide programme of cultural vandalism inspired by religious zeal that has left inhabitants aghast with horror.