She's like something hammered out of silver.

I'm getting some sense hammered into me now.

But both are nonetheless getting hammered in financial markets.

Those piles of yours could be hammered below water level before they'd hold.

But now, for many years, our middle class has been chipped, squeezed, and hammered.

This is a persistent challenge for government agencies they get hammered whenever something goes wrong.

This is a persistent challenge for government agencies they get hammered whenever something goes wrong.

little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the panel with a tack.

America, Europe, got together last year, and we hammered out a common code of ethics.

They have hammered out a common platform that has involved give and take on both sides.

An agreement was hammered out on a series of measures leading to peace and political stability in the country.

You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.

The prison grapevine hammered out the news that a Federal Bureau of Prisons had been created by an act of Congress.

As a matter of fact, DIY people from all over the world, America, Europe, got together last year, and we hammered out a common code of ethics.

To finance local businesses, Chinese local governments use local government financing vehicles (LGFVs) to circumvent bans on direct borrowing. In Spain, housing and employment collapses have hammered revenue.

As the recession deepens, however, bank balance sheets will be hammered further by a wave of defaults in commercial real estate, credit cards, private equity, and hedge funds.

At home, meanwhile, small, distinctively French businesses cheese makers, patisseries, or restaurateurs get hammered by heavy taxes and social welfare costs while supermarkets flourish selling products from Asia.

As the Jordanian intellectual and former foreign minister Marwan al Muasher has argued, state and religious interpretations of history, science, and political values are hammered into Arab students.

And indeed, the first draft incurred some real anguish. And it didnít do any good in the end because I still got hammered for being for being rude and aggressive.

And I think doing a lot of examples probably helps a lot, so let's do a couple of more to kind of make sure things really get hammered home in your brain.

You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. Of hammered work shall the lampstand be made, even its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it.

There, Mexican workers' and employers' organizations, with the Government acting as facilitator, after many sessions of hard work, hammered out a project for reforms to the Federal Labour Act that addresses, among other topics, that of trade union freedom and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining.

The Japanese have a saying The nail that stands out will be hammered down. All States have felt the hammering force of the NPT against nuclear proliferation, but in a world without the Treaty, States might avoid standing out, not by resisting pressures to have nuclear weapons, but by succumbing to them.

Meanwhile also came the chickadees in flocks, which, picking up the crumbs the squirrels had dropped, flew to the nearest twig and, placing them under their claws, hammered away at them with their little bills, as if it were an insect in the bark, till they were sufficiently reduced for their slender throats.