There were already signs that the African National Congress intended riding "roughshod" over opposition parties. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
BCGI and RUSAL have run "roughshod" over Guyanese workers and the union. From Wordnik.com. [Caribbean Net News Daily Headlines] Reference
The Conservative MP accused the Business Department of riding "roughshod" over residents 'worries. From Wordnik.com. [Mirror.co.uk - News] Reference
` I've lived in Port Richmond east of Aramingo for the past 6 years, and we're anything but "roughshod". From Wordnik.com. [The Clog] Reference
Senator John Thune worried that Democrats would run "roughshod" and argued that Americans wanted checks and balances. From Wordnik.com. [Vox Verax] Reference
They often complained that he was running roughshod. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 27, 2009] Reference
Garrison ran roughshod over fairness and common sense. From Wordnik.com. [Bottom Line: How Crazy Is It?] Reference
And those agencies will run roughshod over the honest ones. From Wordnik.com. [Ad Industry Teams Up With University Of Missouri For New Ethics Institute] Reference
These people are running roughshod over the federal government. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 3, 2003] Reference
But here, politics ran roughshod over pragmatic economic policy. From Wordnik.com. [The Stunted Economic Stimulus] Reference
He micromanaged daily Pentagon life and rode roughshod over people. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2006] Reference
The article rides roughshod over the basic human rights of the poor. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: A Tale of Three Cities] Reference
Besides, she runs roughshod over traditions, and all that they imply. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College] Reference
Masked gunmen are running roughshod in the presidential compound in Gaza. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2007] Reference
And you're exactly right that they've been able to kind of run roughshod. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 17, 2003] Reference
In this case, emotion — hope or nostalgia — rides roughshod over facts. From Wordnik.com. [Attack!] Reference
So the notion that al Qaeda would run roughshod over Iraq is just not correct. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2008] Reference
How to respect entrepreneurship without allowing corporations to run roughshod?. From Wordnik.com. ['The Audacity of Hope'] Reference
All this great fun, even if it rides roughshod over some of the play's ironies. From Wordnik.com. [Actor's Gotta Do What An Actor's Gotta Do] Reference
My cousin and I were a wild, unmanageable pair who rode roughshod over protest. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
They ran roughshod over store owners, hoping to find growth by diversifying the menu. From Wordnik.com. [Their Royal Rebound] Reference
And I hope that defense attorney is held, you know, in check, and doesn't run roughshod on her. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2003] Reference
So any radical shift in strategy risks running roughshod over the best advice of the U.S. military. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 28, 2006] Reference
But Obasanjo has alienated the house by riding roughshod over egos and, some claimed, the Constitution. From Wordnik.com. [Africa's Greatest Hope--And Danger] Reference
I think this verdict of the guilty on the one defendant really does ride roughshod over that assessment. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Verdict Reached in Lockerbie Trial - January 31, 2001] Reference
And for the two years since, or close to two years, it has run roughshod, both over the civil liberties. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2003] Reference
France and Germany assailed the United States for riding roughshod over other countries in the war on Iraq. From Wordnik.com. [The New, New Europe] Reference
This downtown area really was -- had roughshod rode over by this herd of tornadoes that swarmed through here. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 6, 2003] Reference
Daniel Day-Lewis stars as an ambitious prospector who runs roughshod over everyone in his rise as an oil baron. From Wordnik.com. [Fall Preview: First to Worst] Reference
For three hours of profit, or a mere 2 million fine, Verizon or AT&T or Comcast can run roughshod over your company. From Wordnik.com. [Marvin Ammori: Google-Verizon Pact: Makes BP Look Good] Reference
He thought he could just run roughshod and cater to whomever he wanted to cater to and leave people disenfranchised. From Wordnik.com. [How D.C. Mayor Fenty lost the black vote - and his job] Reference
Some politicians are starting to realize that letting industry run roughshod over the state may not be good for New York. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Ruffalo: Lessons from Dimock, PA: Calling for a Moratorium on Natural Gas Drilling in New York] Reference
Some laud the mayor for wanting to help improve education, but others think he ran roughshod over some simple shopkeepers. From Wordnik.com. [Kandahar mayor's claim to shopkeeper-occupied land dividing residents] Reference
The military ran roughshod over East Timor, which recently gained independence, and Aceh, where a separatist movement is growing. From Wordnik.com. [Shadow Of A Coup] Reference
We don't want to run roughshod over some industry or some company that has got a point of view that needs to be taken into account. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Vice President Gore Holds Campaign Rally in Davenport, Iowa - October 26, 2000] Reference
CROWLEY: But critics remember an increasingly unpopular mayor who rode roughshod over opponents and ran the city with an iron fist. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 14, 2007] Reference
NORIEGA: In this case, Zelaya was following Chavez's playbook, running roughshod on the other democratic institutions in the country. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 29, 2009] Reference
Felicity nastily wondered if that was because she knew the other women would not let her run roughshod over them as she was wont to do. From Wordnik.com. [The One Week Wife]
The majority doesn't get to run roughshod over the minority in the Senate, and sooner or later, we're going to get a vote on funding the troops. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 18, 2007] Reference
FRANKEN: On September 10th, Rumsfeld was not only breaking bones but shattering egos and, in the minds of many, running roughshod over the military and its congressional patrons. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2002] Reference
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