Batterers use the courts as a way to maintain control, she said. 
The courts are one way that batterers maintain control.
Batterers know that they cannot get help from the courts.
The crescent moon is not shaped like a set of cattle horns.
Statutes and executive orders.
A woman is inside.
A man is wearing something on his wrist.
The man was walking his dog on the beach
Two men are fishing.