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1. But hatches were battened down soon after this self–lacerating effort.
2. Fire/EMS has battened down the hatches and assumed a protective crouch.
3. After the Holocaust, the lobby battened on sympathy for the Jews in the West.
4. But Ponting and Hussey simply battened down the hatches and rode out the storm.
5. The worse things got, the more the CSA battened down the hatches against the world.