| 11. | Some Northern Alliance troops are already battening down for their sixth winter against the Taliban.
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| 12. | The stand comprises ornate cast iron posts and handrails as well as decorative timber battening.
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| 13. | A bunker mentality is descending on consumers and investors _ everyone is battening down the hatches.
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| 14. | The ceilings retain their original fibrous-cement sheeting and timber battening arranged in decorative patterns.
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| 15. | "We are more entitled to a private life, so I'm battening down.
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| 16. | "The country goes through cycles of battening down the hatches, " he said.
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| 17. | In the loom, yarn processing includes shedding, picking, battening and taking-up operations.
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| 18. | Above the columns are frieze panels, comprising diagonal latticework flanking a central section of vertical battening.
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| 19. | Still, some Western investors are battening down the hatches, waiting for the current storm to pass.
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| 20. | The extension was designed for maximum battening of the western verandah are mostly replacements suggestive of the original.
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