Woody Guthrie was a voice for labor unions and striking workers and families beaten down by the Great Depression in the nineteen thirties.

VOA: special.2009.07.27

Blacks who tried to change the system risked being beaten or killed.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

Many in Baltimore believe he was beaten by local criminal gangs.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

They laughed and shouted at the tired, beaten soldiers.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

Protesters were shot, beaten and stabbed.

VOA: special.2009.10.24

Sally was beaten and raped as a 10-year-old bride, but her December 2009 petition for divorce had failed.

VOA: standard.2010.03.27

Muntazer al-Zaidi said he was whipped,beaten and subjected to electric shocks during his first days in Iraqi custody.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

"Often time terrorism is beaten not by the government but by regular people who have the courage to report something unusual to the authorities,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.21

Karroubi's son was savagely beaten. And,I think, under those circumstances, it is going to be very difficult for them to organize a stratagem moving forward."

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

As negotiations for their release dragged on, Lindhout says she was routinely beaten and forced to call her mother by phone to plead for payment.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

As a boy,he was stuffed in a sack and nearly beaten to death by Khmer Rouge soldiers simply for letting air out of a car tire.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

So they are not beaten easily. U.S.coach Bob Bradley said he was disappointed over losing a two-goal lead, but said he also felt great pride in his team.

VOA: standard.2009.06.29

And they were beaten,killed, and humiliated because they exercised these rights.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Women were beaten and humiliated during the violence of September 28.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

"The fact is I was beaten, raped,exploited, brutalized almost every day."

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

The main opposition coalition of political parties, civil society groups, and trade unions organized the strike to remember those killed, beaten,and raped by members of Guinea's military on September 28.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

But before the censorship, dozens of homemade videos were able to be posted to the Facebook website showing demonstrators being beaten by riot police and shouting "down with the dictator."

VOA: standard.2009.06.14