Of course, they are now battered after the war.
I shall refer to the areas in which their morale has been battered over the years.
They stood up to a three years' battering from the air—longer than we did.
However, fish processing includes processes such as battering and crumbing.
Immigrants should not be used as battering rams, but as people with the same rights alongside local workers.
Using the euro as a battering ram to force through labour-market deregulation to create an optimal currency area has failed so far and is unlikely to work in the future.
One possibility is that they were exposed to more chronic domestic violence (recent severity and frequency was the same for battered shelter and battered community families).
As such, the police officers, judges and doctors are still overwhelmingly a part of this gendered authoritarianism and sometimes even confirm male dominance by their own behaviour towards battered women.
