1.   Amuni, who suffers from rheumatism and epilepsy, received severe beatings about the head.

2.   Ambience takes a severe beating in such environs.

3.   As if by magic, fire suddenly breaks out in the chapel, distracting the headmaster and saving Abel from a severe beating but killing his best friend.

4.   Both sides already are taking a severe financial beating, even though there is plenty of money for everybody, were it intelligently distributed.

5.   After his initiation, which was a severe beating, he had MS tattooed on his chest.

6.   Charged with attempted murder are Paul and Louis Mongelli, owners of Mongelli Carting Co., in the severe beating of a truck driver who worked for a competitor.

7.   Emanuel blamed the most severe beatings and shootings on a colleague nicknamed Friday the Thirteenth, who died two years ago.

8.   Facing another severe beating for breaking the rules, he angrily wishes that the school would burn down.

9.   For that reason, bank shares took a severe beating Friday.

10.   Her body also showed signs of a severe beating, Ms. Borakove said.