1.   Although it is still one of the strongest in the region, the Argentine economy has been battered recently, partly by the economic crisis in Mexico.

2.   Florida is worried that the baseball strike will batter its economy.

3.   Hoisington said the rise in rates will further batter an economy that he says is already in a recession.

4.   The economy is already battered by a fall in the oil price.

5.   The matter is sensitive, however, because Turkey is a NATO member and ally whose economy has been battered for seven months.

6.   Pakistan, its economy already battered by mismanagement and corruption, was harder hit than India.

7.   Indeed, at a time when the tiger economies are being battered with a debilitating economic crisis, governments and citizens tend to economise on compassion.

8.   Instability since has battered the economy and frightened Ivorians.

9.   Instability since then has battered the economy and frightened Ivorians.

10.   Lee also dismissed as scapegoating some tinges of a resurgent nationalism among countries whose economies have been battered.