1.   The country has been battered by winds of between fifty and seventy miles an hour.

2.   And the Latin American and Caribbean countries have been battered by the global economy.

3.   But their countries were battered by the Asian economic crisis, they lost their jobs and now they are at the vanguard of a new entrepreneurism in Asia.

4.   In the past year, our country has been battered by gun violence.

5.   The troubles with Iraq will not disappear simply because we battered that country with four days of bomb and missile attacks.

6.   Today, four of the republics have seceded and the country has been battered by two wars.

7.   Britain was bracing itself against more stormy weather Friday as gale force winds began to batter the country for the second time in a week.

8.   But the fallout is slowly battering the country and exposing its weaknesses, forcing top officials to be more pragmatic.

9.   He also conceded, however, that his country could be battered if exports to its northern neighbor dry up.

10.   He became a reluctant peacemaker after a U.N. embargo battered his country and NATO airstrikes hit Bosnian Serb positions this summer.