That reputation has been severely battered.
The economy, barely reviving after Mr Kabila's first year in power, has been severely battered.
Financial stocks, which have been severely battered as interest rates have risen, did better yesterday.
Developing economies depend heavily on trade credit for finance, but the market for this has been severely battered by the global shortage of liquidity.
Hamas, which is classified by Israel, the United States and the European Union as a terrorist organization, has been severely battered by the Israeli military operation in Gaza but remains in control.
"Unfortunately, for us it's business as usual," said Nichelle Mitchem, the executive director at My Sister's Place, a domestic violence shelter in a gritty section of Northeast Washington, as she finished handling a call from a woman who had been severely battered for four hours Tuesday morning by a drunken spouse.
May I have your e-mail address, please?" For Mr. Linn and 345 other people here in remote Coos County, where the historical economic pillars of logging and fishing have been severely battered and where the unemployment rate was in the double digits as recently as last year, an improbable savior has emerged, mushrooming in a matter of months into the second-largest private employer in the county.
One case Joyce uses to illustrate her thesis is that of Genia Shockome, who claimed to have been severely battered by her ex-husband Tim and lost custody of her two children after being accused of intentionally alienating them from their father.
The larger and more powerful British ship was able to rapidly inflict severe damage to the Santa Dorotea, and within minutes the mizenmast had fallen and the mainmast and rudder were severely battered.
In 1959, the City of Minneapolis presented a plan for the Seward neighborhood, which listed the houses on Milwaukee Avenue in 'deteriorated' condition, meaning they had no indoor plumbing or were severely battered.
