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i'm trying to pick the lock, and the door won't budge. break it down. okay, genius, let me grab my battering ram!

A survey released on Monday shows that the brand is holding up to its recent recall-related battering better than initially feared.

Folks sweating out the heat wave battering parts of the country may just have to get used to it.

BP's share price, which had already taken a battering, dived to its lowest level in 13 years.

Looking for someone to draw one of our robots (picture attached) with a battering ram taking down a portion of the Berlin Wall.

They dash in on the attack, battering-ram style, leaving it up to the chairman to restrain them before serious damage is done.

The combination of a global influenza pandemic and a global economic crisis, both on unprecedented scales, is battering the region hard.

Radical Iraq, he thought, would be used as a battering ram against all moderate pro-Western regimes in the area.

The buoyant job market is a dramatic reversal from a year ago, when the global financial crisis was battering China's exporters.

Yet the bursting of the finance bubble, while battering many areas of the industry, has meant new work for a few.

Protesters built barricades and tried to use garbage cans as battering rams to break their way into the national palace.

Mrs Clinton wants to help Gaza recover from the battering it received during the recent war between Israel and Hamas.

Even with the battering it took, Japan's productivity growth outpaced that of U. S. workers in the 1990s.

The dollar may be taking a battering, but at least it will be worth something this time next year.

Now, the financial tornado is coursing its way around the globe, battering some places while leaving others largely unscathed.

Central bank officials fear a political battering if they increase rates in the face of a recent blizzard of poor figures.

Huckabee referred to Hurricane Gustav battering the Gulf Coast, in emphasizing the importance of human life.

Storm force gales have been battering Britain for most of the day, causing widespread disruption on roads, railways, and ferry services.

It has been established that battering during pregnancy is a frequently occurring and significantly deleterious phenomena.

That pushed oil up to nearly 8 percent of GDP, way above the level at which it starts battering global growth.

But his image took a battering when he pulled out of the Olympics because of injury.

Battering by the other planets caught in the cup - Venus and the Dark Twin - also enter into the picture.

He stopped halfway up the ridge, his heart battering against his chest like something snared.

Despite the Republicans' battering in the mid-term elections, America remains a country where conservatives outnumber liberals handsomely.

Then, appalled by the battering of wind and waves, Blake had rushed to the parapet and flung himself on to the rocks below.

Joblessness remains stubbornly near 10%: unless that number falls in the coming months, the Democrats are expected to take a battering.

It went down as severe weather was battering the region with wind gusts of up to 72 miles per hour.

They indulge in a manic idealization of their young ; it is the obverse of child battering but sometimes has equally fatal effects .

She was never physically hurt, but her confidence has taken a terrible battering.

Storms battering western Europe have left at least 50 people dead.

CATHERINE MARSTON: Battering the Cumbrian coast, the ferocious winds whipped up a high tide, and brought chaos.

Two more of the massive beasts swung a gargantuan battering ram against the city's main gates.

There's someone battering away at the door.

TEXTILE MACHINERY. BATTERING WILLOW. NOMENCLATURE.

Following numerous product and food safety scandals in recent years, the reputation of Chinese people has taken a massive battering.

The storm hammered like a battering ram on the walls of the lighthouse.

With the conduits in trouble over bad investments in the US subprime market, these credit lines are battering confidence in the banks.

Someone is battering away at the door.

Someone is battering at the door.

With colossal skulls, their heads can be used as battering rams, but air spaces in their skulls act like shock absorbers.

But despite this grim short-term outlook, the industry is in better shape to withstand the battering than many of the car firms.

Since then, huge losses on the Japanese stock market have eaten into banks' capital and the surging yen is battering corporate profits.

After five months of battering, Greek asset prices should show an even more promising potential for good-value pickings.

Take Motorola, which in 2008 named Sanjay Jha and Greg Brown as joint chief executives after the firm's fortunes took a severe battering.

The battering suffered by Greece and Ireland has shown the painful consequences if bond markets lose confidence.

French security guards fired live shots in the air to disperse demonstrators who had taken a battering ram to the embassy.

"Portsmouth being down there is a strange one because no-one was battering them at the start of the season, " Carratold LFC Weekly.

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

where Soviet billionaire partners have clashed with the UK oil giant, battering its share price.

Stockmarkets took a further battering in the first half of the week. Some indices fell to their lowest levels for many years.

After that battering, Democrats chose to complete financial reform.

Mudslides, floods and power outages, all from the latest storm battering the Northwest.

WHEN a sector takes a battering, it isnatural to wonder whether a buying opportunity has emerged.

The Geneva conventions are taking a battering, and the victims of war are still getting short shrift.

Severe winds have been battering the north coast.

Its first priority will be to shore up its share price, which has taken a battering over the past week.

Darren is battering a guy on the corner and the cops are on their way.

Having lived through an emotional battering, he knows how to lead a business dedicated to helping others survive difficult times.

Rediscover your integrity which has taken a battering and work regularly on rebuilding it, strengthening it and practising it.

At best Jonos Bracken had five hundred men about the castle. Jaime saw no siege towers, no battering rams, no catapults.

Bolton Wanderers battering ram Kevin Davies is worried he is losing his hard-man image.

EUROPEAN stocks have taken a battering in recent months.

Others find the play a moving act of faith, in part because it has endured the battering of history.

Towards the battering and rise of the tide.

This thesis has recently taken a battering.

Against the wreckful siege of battering days.

At the same time, actuaries revised up their life-expectancy tables, battering returns.

Seminar on Community and Legal Intervention Implications of HKU Consultancy Study on Child Abuse Spouse Battering

After a few sunny weeks, a political and economic storm is battering the euro zone once again

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Application of Battering Methods in Research on Slope-sliding

Distribution of Cases by Types of Battering

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