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At the moment, Bradley can promote his support for campaign finance reform, but if he does well, he'll be battered with questions about his own aggressive fund raising.
Burton first raised the subject of his experiences to underscore his support for a bill to aid battered wives.
One pincer battered its way through the rebuilt city wall, while the other — so it is said — infiltrated through a secret passage revealed to the invaders by the brother of the sheik himself.
By the late 1980s, the Egyptian Islamist movement-badly battered in the government crackdown following President Sadat's assassination-was centered in two major organizations: the Islamic Group and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
Jason Hudgins, a chronic runaway who has done every drug imaginable, been molested, and assaulted members of his family, grew up with two alcoholic parents who violently beat him and a mother who was herself battered and raped.