1.   It was not intended to suggest that these were battered wives.

2.   Lesbians put their weight behind issues such as child care, abortion, race, battered wives and rape.

3.   Jocelyn on the other hand would have preferred a few irregularities in life and so was leaving to live in a battered wives hostel.

4.   Why, on the other hand, there are hostels for battered wives.

5.   As she makes her way around the country, the movie purports to offer advice to battered wives.

6.   Battered wives, unfortunately, are a staple of daytime talk shows and made-for-television movies.

7.   Eddie reappears at a crucial juncture and decides the best course of action is to take his battered wife dancing in the rain.

8.   I was once a battered wife.

9.   In the far rarer cases when the victim is a husband and the defendant is a battered wife, the courtroom tactics change dramatically.

10.   Just like battered wives.