We got battered that day, never mind Joey Barton".
With securitisation markets damaged and confidence in banks battered, that will not be easy.It is also unclear that the most needy banks can borrow freely yet.
Beforehand, text messages exchanged between the siblings referred to "battering that bitch".
No book on your shelves is so arcane, so out of date, so unreadable, so battered that you can't make an argument for keeping it.
My dad used to say: 'Make sure you batter that ball when you get near it.
No one seemed to notice her sneering characterisation of her good causes: "battered this, battered that".
That left her with only one film-festival print so battered that it would barely run through a projector.
A Jaguar tailing the car and carrying a palace security detail was so battered that the police ended up using its doors as shields.
The immediate focus, however, is on Bergdahl, whose reputation has been so battered that his hometown of Hailey, Idaho, has cancelled a homecoming celebration, citing security concerns.
Four years later the company was so battered that in February it became a meal for Cingular, a competitor that didn't even exist back then.
