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