The Mayor had said bankruptcy might help save the financially battered city.

- and the return of good feelings for a battered game, a battered city.

As the narrator says, the stones of their much battered city "can be barriers or foundations."

The aim is to mobilise widespread support for restoring the battered city.

My poor battered city will see more blood.

Like the other children of this battered city, exhausted by a decade of war, she said, "they've seen so much horror."

Today's forward-looking capital is vastly different from the battered city to which it was reduced to in the 1980s.

It comes from the fact that much of the movie was shot in and around the battered industrial city of Detroit.

According to police statistics, there had been no homicides since Saturday, something positive in this battered city.

But there is a way out, and that is why so many people stand in line every day, collectively transforming this battered city.