How To Use Bulldoze In A Sentence

In 2005, the Mugabe government launched what it called a slum clearance scheme, that bulldozed major shantytowns, brutally displacing hundreds of thousands of people. CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2007
Rachel Corrie stands in front of an Israeli army bulldozer wearing an orange jacket so that she can be easily identified and seen.
In the 1950s, the great and the good - the people who really knew what was in the best interests of the lower orders - decided to bulldoze the slums and decant people into tower blocks.
At the same time, Breakwater is preparing to bulldoze most of those buildings this summer as part of its clean-up plan.
At least the State of California limits its total liability to a paltry $5K in exchange for a prohibitively expensive premium, that even if a person chose to insure herself against would not pay the bulldozers pushing the debris to one side or the other, as no amount of money makes these liabilities "insurable" to even the most profligage premium payer. Balkinization

Outside the front door, a bulldozer is clearing up the mess caused when a heavily laden lorry crashed into the wall and gatepost.
He convinced the Army that it was better served by letting Caterpillar continue to manufacture bulldozers and tractors.
One of those passive protests, where one lies down nobly in front of the bulldozers. Times, Sunday Times
The coalition bulldozed the resolution through the plenary session.
Only a few looked inhabited -- lawns bestrewn with gadgets, excavations begun with small bulldozers and abandoned, Pack or Swarm or Family flags flying from the mainmasts. Boing Boing: January 16, 2005 - January 22, 2005 Archives
And there's this new idea that we've heard about that you're going to kind of bulldoze and blow up everything around the government center and kind of make a park or a green zone. CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2006
They can take a buyout package and get out of the way of the bulldozers, or wait for the city to condemn their property and force them out.
Bulldozers have begun demolishing the terrace in front of the bowling green in readiness for the building of a members' long room and 36 executive boxes.
The City decided that the area needed to be "revitalized" and they did eminent domain on the entire area and bulldozed hundreds of Craftsman style homes. <a href="http://althouse.blogspot.com/2007/12/great-thing-about-america-is-that-once.html" title=""The great thing about America, is that once you own property, you own
Some 25 years ago, plans were afoot to bulldoze one of the most significant buildings in Manchester.
Here people would just stand in front of bulldozers to change that law.
His decision not to hold a poll is a "nakedly cynical" calculation that he can "bulldoze" the treaty into law. Archive 2007-09-01
Cranes and bulldozers were brought in to clear the streets while 18 teams of rescue workers dug with pickaxes and shovels.
The lumpen city mayor, meanwhile, has a plan: bulldoze the former homes of the poor, introduce city-wide internet access and build seven new casinos.
They needed a bulldozer to dislodge the rock.
Up to 3,500 houses could be bulldozed in all. Times, Sunday Times
A third bought a property beside a main road, only to discover that the road could be widened and the house bulldozed. Times, Sunday Times
Another couple had their drive bulldozed by the clerk of the local town hall, who claimed that the land was his. Times, Sunday Times
They literally bulldozed aside the police cars blocking the road.
Above them they saw the bulldozer lurching and shuddering slantwise down the torn edge of cliff. COUP D'ETAT
Some people took direct action and stood in front of the bulldozers but they were arrested and fined for trespassing.
Normally bulldozers or heavy tractors are used.
He had sold ladies 'underwear, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners and encyclopedias door to door; he had been a short order cook, elevator operator, puddler in a steel mill, seaman, carnival shill, bulldozer operator, printer's devil and legman for a radio station. Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth
Kiltane locals are prepared to stand in front of bulldozers to stop work on the rehabilitation of bogs in Erris.
The bulldozer is out of repair.
These repairs uncovered extensive water damage to the supporting timbers, stonework and plaster, and it was feared that the church might be bulldozed.
It has allowed a last public viewing on January 31 before the bulldozers roll in.
Of course, Oxford can not - and should not - bulldoze its beautiful old buildings.
Almost every boy has dreamt of driving a bulldozer or operating a big crane or pressing the pedal to the metal of an earth mover the size of a house.
Military bulldozers yesterday knocked down all the structures in Kadim, and were razing buildings in Ganim.
Conservation officers get the beasts to trample shacks on protected forest land in the Assam region, where hilly terrain makes bulldozers impractical. The Sun
The bulldozers moved in and the grounds were levelled and that was that.
He just grabs his leading lady and bulldozes right on through, trashing just about every institution near and dear to the moral majority on the way.
I had always figured the reclusive Yeti as being a mysterious, private creature who lurked in some backwoods plot of land slowly being bulldozed and turned into apartment complexes.
Rapid expansion of public infrastructure and urbanization there are driving demand for bulldozers, excavators and other earthmoving equipment. Deere Enhances Focus on Russia
I have to admit that I had butterflies the size of bulldozers flapping around in my tum as I walked him round the corner to nursery school.
In the end, the bulldozers move in. Times, Sunday Times
Bulldozers felled the antenna of the radio station, who were accused of inciting hatred and violence.
Afterwards, the family's home was bulldozed. Times, Sunday Times
EIGHT months after the bulldozers moved in, Highbury is now just a building site. The Sun
And then there is this so called "infill," aka bulldoze old city, built NYC here and now, but all 100 year old new modern (no "phony" craftsman for them). Crosscut
A bulldozer blade would be similarly effective today, for use in clearing rabble and barriers during urban movement.
Now the council flat he was given in compensation is also to be bulldozed, to make way for a new national stadium. Times, Sunday Times
Still, for 50 minutes England was reduced to the ordinary and they reverted to type, attempting to bulldoze the Italians at every opportunity, a ploy that mostly failed.
Mrs. Lopes rallied the women to stand in the path of a bulldozer bearing down on their babassu palm forest. At Brazil's Museum of the Person, 10,000 Voices Tell a Nation's Story
The undercarriages of tracked vehicles - whether bulldozers, loaders, or excavators - are yet another major maintenance dilemma.
However, today we introduced to you an FX processor based on the new Bulldozer microarchitecture but designed for the desktop segment.
Without any prior notification and with compensations deals outstanding for families remaining there, around 200 police "encircled" the community in the middle of the night and were followed later in the morning by more than 300 workers with bulldozers, said Chan Saveth of the rights group Adhoc. KI Media
Razing a plot to the ground with a bulldozer not only destroys all the wildlife and plants, but also encourages subsequent pollution with alien invasive plants.
Plans to bulldoze a prominent York building used as a supermarket for over 35 years look set to get the go-ahead.
Some are literally plucked from the forest as the bulldozers move in. Times, Sunday Times
Suppose, further, that she attempts to use bulldozers for constructive purposes.
Project equipment: Construct equipment, road equipment, car , loading engine, road roller, bulldozer, bus etc.
This is really no different than how foreign assistance and FDI are deployed by a plethora of other countries - such as Japan - but China's tendency is to 'bulldoze' its way into developing countries, providing cash and assistance in order to secure natural resources. Stephen Goldsmith: Geopolitics with Chinese Characteristics
Head NE from the summit cairn to pick up the bulldozed track called Morton's Way and follow this along the NE ridge and down to a col below the Hill of Glenroads.
The area was bulldozed to make way for a new road.
The bulldozer driver gives a quick chew of his gum and slams in the clutch.
The bulldozers piled up huge mounds of dirt.
As I write, I cannot say with authority when the bulldozers will move onto the forty three acre site, but expect it to be sooner rather than later.
The bulldozers quickly levelled off the site.
They bulldozed the tax through Parliament.
This just in: caterpillar — the maker of earthmoving equipment, including bulldozers and monster mining trucks — reported first-quarter profits of 55 cents a share, up from a loss of 19 cents a year earlier. A New Economic Order
A team of bulldozers lumbered up the steep incline.
Others said that they were given minimal compensation before their homes were bulldozed, leaving them with little hope of buying a suitable replacement. Times, Sunday Times
In the architectural analogy, we can think of bulldozers as the ground clearing tools of demolition.
Temples, ancient settlements and old and historical buildings have been bulldozed to make way for various development projects.
Roads punched out of the wilderness by massive bulldozers.
Many squatters pulled down their own houses to save building materials like plywood and plastic sheeting, but many others stood by while their houses were destroyed by bulldozers.
H. Raines - Blair fiasco is not just about race or lies, but Times chief's bulldozer man - agement style. Terrorism Reloaded Edition
He also drove bulldozers that excavated the lands preparing it for drainage.
Eighteen bulldozers moved in to clear the way for rescue teams. Times, Sunday Times
NEW DELHI - Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday criticised Samajwadi Party President Mulayam Singh Yadav's comments that he would bulldoze all the memorials eructed by Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
These bars are especially important on bulldozers and, to a lesser extent, on tracked loaders and excavators.
Countless houses have been bulldozed and olive trees uprooted in collective reprisals.
Olmstead told police that Phillips had at various times ordered a construction flagger to put out his cigarette because of "danger from gas lines" and had told a bulldozer operator to wear a hard hat because his cab wasn't enclosed. Heroes or Villains?
The group rescues up to four tons of reusables daily from the city bulldozers.
They nest gregariously in sandy roadways and trails, bulldozed sandy fields, and sandpits.
Search teams, who had shovels and a few bulldozers, were joined by survivors using their bare hands to tear at the mounds of rubble in the hope of finding anyone alive beneath the ruins.
But it requires only limited use of bulldozers. Times, Sunday Times
We trust that you will listen to what your public are saying and that you will respect that the people saying these things are well placed to do so and are sick of their opinions being run over by the political bulldozer that is supposed to serve them.
A construction company tearing into unsurveyed land may even destroy unrecognized ancient cities with their bulldozers.
Helvetia, etc. are just the latest protester-victim in front of the bulldozer. funny how cities must always eat more and more resources, land and taxes just to survive, isn't it? They get you coming and going (Jack Bog's Blog)
We had some bulldozers, and they tried to dig out the tunnels.
Walls and parts of royal buildings were bulldozed. Times, Sunday Times
Approaches to dwelling houses and farms were cleared by men with spades and shovels - bulldozers weren't part of the scene for several years afterwards.
Bulldozers are busy establishing Sherritt's four-billion-dollar nickel mine - one of the world's five largest mining projects - and building a pipeline, ripping through the shrivelling natural habitat of the endangered indri lemur. ANC Daily News Briefing
Scores of houses were destroyed and much of the village's cultivated land and orchards were bulldozed.
He added: ‘What amazes me is that some people in prominent positions in Leeds tried to bulldoze us into having the Love Parade again and I hope they are now having pause for thought.’
At the yacht club, a squadron of American bulldozers had arrived without warning and built an artificial harbour almost overnight for repairing landing craft. Spitfire Women of World War II
Texaco is an "insalubrious" shantytown named for a nearby oil refinery, and the so-called Christ is a city planner who has come to bulldoze this slum in the name of progress. NYT > Home Page
The mechanics of mountain belts along convergent plate boundaries are often considered to be analogous to that of a wedge of snow or soil in front of moving bulldozer.
The Post Office closure programme was "bulldozed" through local opposition, with the consultation exercise little more than a "sham", according to a damning indictment from influential MPs Mid morning update: Brown shuffles as party crashes and burns
•Lorenzo Neal, Chargers — Tomlinson's lead blocker is the best blocking fullback in the game and has now bulldozed paths for a 1,000-yard rusher in 10 consecutive seasons. The NFL's best: USA TODAY names its All-Pro team
The tranquillity of countless thousands of people will be harmed, homes will be bulldozed and air quality degraded. Times, Sunday Times
By the way any ideas put forward by a blue ribbon panel needs to be enacted by Congress so the excess in the market being "bulldozed" would never happen. Obama Pokes Fun At Hillary's Shot-And-A-Beer
Their houses continued to be destroyed by bulldozers and their land confiscated.
When sites are to be bulldozed, the blade should be maintained just at ground level.
The mechanics of mountain belts along convergent plate boundaries are often considered to be analogous to that of a wedge of snow or soil in front of moving bulldozer.
Fans originally feared the properties would be bulldozed to make way for new builds. The Sun
What happened was that buildings were bulldozed, neighbourhoods torn apart and families trapped in abandoned streets. Times, Sunday Times
The area was bulldozed to make way for a new road.
He was the bulldozer for college football's most punishing running attack, with the pancake block being his trademark.
By the mid-'80s, the mountains just north of Los Angeles where the Steel Challenge had always been held were falling prey to the bulldozers and earth movers of housing developers.
The turtles may "bulldoze", pushing their heads through the soil, and then raise their earth-covered heads to peer about. Turtle
Firefighters are now using bulldozers to build massive firebreaks around threatened mountain resorts.
Since there is no access to large volumes of water, fires in Central Australia are generally fought with machinery like graders and bulldozers and small containers of water to douse spot fires which jump breaks.
Grant plays George Wade, a millionaire real estate developer determined to bulldoze anything that stands in the way of his company's plans.
On any construction site you see hydraulically-operated machinery in the form of bulldozers, backhoes, shovels, loaders, fork lifts and cranes.
Roads punched out of the wilderness by massive bulldozers.
There are more bulldozers by the wayside than trees, rivers are replaced with billions of miles of ribbon like roads and trash is everywhere.
The gun's explosion hit James as if it were the bulldozer itself, hammering his ears and dazing him.
First, he bulldozed French flanker Serge Betsen before forcing his way over the try line with similar ferocity on the hour mark after a period of sustained pressure.
In the space of a few short months, humanity has roused itself from the recurring nightmare of history - of bulldozer violence forever powered by oleaginous lies - and has flung open the curtains to let in the light.
In 2005, the Mugabe government launched what it called a slum clearance scheme that bulldozed major shanty towns, brutally displacing hundreds of thousands of people. CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2007
Trees on that farm will now be bulldozed and burned.
Many sites are being looted in broad daylight and at least one bulldozer is being used. Times, Sunday Times
The postwar building boom was under way, the bulldozers were roaring, and Wayburn knew that developers were coveting those areas for subdivisions.
The bulldozer leveled the mount of earth.
To an anthropologist, lying in front of a bulldozer is an act of arrogant aggression.
On the perceived lack of implementation of road traffic legislation, Diko blamed parliamentary committees and political parties, saying they often "bulldozed" legislation even if there was no necessary mechanism for implementation. ANC Daily News Briefing
He set up a beehive barricade as bulldozers moved in to dig a pipeline near his land.
Arms and legs dangled from the sides of the bulldozers 'buckets as they drove to offload their cargo into a trench already teeming with rotting, bloated bodies. Stench of dead bodies keeps mounting in Haiti
Rotten as a bad apple, and ready for the bulldozers of history.
Not wishing the return in your favor, unless it is clear that it ought to be so, and not willing to be cheated out of it, or to be 'bulldozed' or intimidated, the truth is palpable that you ought to have the vote of Louisiana, and we believe that you will have ti, by an honest and fair return, according to the letter and spirit of the law of Louisiana. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.
People thought we were weird, in 1992, to risk our lives by standing in front of bulldozers.
Another couple had their drive bulldozed by the clerk of the local town hall, who claimed that the land was his. Times, Sunday Times
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Locals in Indonesia reported seeing rolling, riverlike waters flooding some areas and 30-meter-high, bulldozer-like walls of sea flattening others. ENVIRONMENT: WHY SAVE THE FORESTS?
Today there are six and half billion of us with bulldozers and chain saws and nuclear power.
Early this year my town bypass had its roundabout bulldozed and replaced by access via slip roads (plus flyover). Times, Sunday Times
The area was bulldozed to make way for a new road.
Now the council flat he was given in compensation is also to be bulldozed, to make way for a new national stadium. Times, Sunday Times
The ideas of architects like Piano, that neither bulldoze the past nor freeze-dry history, are likely to be the only way to give cities new life and meaning. The Future, Italian Style
Unlike the concrete and terrazzo buildings that were bulldozed, the new Bullring has a nice mix of inside and outside space.
He works in a crew that has three bulldozers, a large excavator, and two or more off-road haul trucks.
The company said claims of fox holes being bulldozed over was unfounded.
The off-center peak of this creature's shell allows the limpet to use it like a bulldozer to clear its territory of other animals.
Others said that they were given minimal compensation before their homes were bulldozed, leaving them with little hope of buying a suitable replacement. Times, Sunday Times
He works in a crew that has three bulldozers, a large excavator, and two or more off-road haul trucks.
As winter came and went, and the bulldozer came and went with it, the main access roads turned into deep trenches, sluicing runoff and causing serious erosion.
A heavy vehicle, possibly a bulldozer, had been driven up and flattened the wire into the earth. Somewhere East of Life
Andy Roland bulldozed through to score.
Workmen are removing the remaining fixtures and fittings before bulldozers move in for the 30-week demolition job.
The former Bradford Ward Labour Club in Bridgeman Street, Bolton, will be bulldozed if a planning application to build homes on the site is approved.
Conservation officers get the beasts to trample shacks on protected forest land in the Assam region, where hilly terrain makes bulldozers impractical. The Sun
The homes were considered unfit to live in and were bulldozed to the ground.
It comes to an abrupt end at a field of dirt, bulldozed to make room for a subdivision.
While homes are being bulldozed for lack of occupants in the northwest, comparable properties in the south sell for a fortune. Times, Sunday Times
A team of bulldozers lumbered up the steep incline.
Fans originally feared the properties would be bulldozed to make way for new builds. The Sun
National Party health spokesman Dr Kobus Gous said the way the bill was "bulldozed" through Parliament made a mockery of the parliamentary process and the Constitution. ANC Daily News Briefing
Three thousand acres of mountained garbage, contoured and road-graded, with bulldozers pushing waves of refuse onto the active face. Underworld
People were outraged when old buildings were bulldozed and 19 th-century streets were reconfigured to meet modern specifications.
Scores of business premises will be bulldozed to make way for the final section of the northern spur of Sheffield's inner ring road.
This particular urban wildlife corridor is slated to be bulldozed, Jimerfield says.
Although color television often is snowflake dot of Man Bing, fanner often gives out bulldozer like roar, that also is sweat caboodle comes out ah.
No trace of the buildings exists now that the blue-uniformed wreckers and bulldozers have done their work.
Hundreds of homes will be bulldozed. Times, Sunday Times
Up to 3,500 houses could be bulldozed in all. Times, Sunday Times
The first one was the 'fact' that Caterpillar make the bulldozers 'used in demolitions by the Israeli army' and that thus any company who used their products was unethical. Some Stuff
Hall started as a sculptor, and it shows in her bulldozed reconfiguring of a Cape Cod meadow into undulating waves of earth and rock overgrown with wild grass.
Industrial remains have been bulldozed and buried under newly laid turf.
In fact, it is when the bulldozers finally arrive that the real challenge will begin. Times, Sunday Times
We realise this has far reaching impacts on people's lives and it is not our intention to bulldoze people.
Conservation officers get the beasts to trample shacks on protected forest land in the Assam region, where hilly terrain makes bulldozers impractical. The Sun
A government "sanitation" team uses heavy equipment, including bulldozers and cranes, to remove all traces of the A-12 spy plane from a 1963 crash site in the Utah desert.
Afterwards, the family's home was bulldozed. Times, Sunday Times
The club has taken a bulldozer to the conventional wisdom that money will always bring silverware. The Sun
After the bulldozers methodically razed the area, so that stoory rubble stretched as far as the developers’ eyes could see, two or three little buildings, a tiny raggle of pubs and betting shops, remained erect.
Installation at another site with an excavator and bulldozer working as a team took the same amount of time.
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HUNDREDS of British expats face having their dream homes bulldozed in Spain. The Sun
Hundreds of homes will be bulldozed. Times, Sunday Times
In his own inimitable fashion, he didn't do it the usual way with bulldozers. Times, Sunday Times
The tranquillity of countless thousands of people will be harmed, homes will be bulldozed and air quality degraded. Times, Sunday Times
I invite the Minister to name one thing in that purpose that will do anything to get the bulldozers moving and the dirt shifted to build a road in Auckland.
Taking a pass from centre James Evans, the human bulldozer, crashed through three tackles on his way to the line after 44 minutes.
Each one a building of unique character, irreplaceable, yet bulldozed in the name of progress.
Never mind that the club will be evicted from their ground at the end of the season, which will be bulldozed into a building site from which bijou homes will arise.
The two drivers, obeying hand signals from Charley, eased the toppled bulldozer away, steadily and with no rotating motion.
It took three bulldozers a week to level off the site.
Eight were forced out by police and detained for hours while their property was bulldozed. Times, Sunday Times
Guided from within by my satguru, I hired a bulldozer and instructed the driver to follow me as I walked to the north edge of the property that was then a tangle of buffalo grass and wild guava.
As the plans stand, the historic burgages will be bulldozed to make way for the cinema and a restaurant.
Something tells me they'd bulldoze a damn big firebreak at one of the passes before letting the thing get down here.
Discussions in media did not bother to bring out fully the long term damage of GM cotton when efforts were being made to bulldoze use of GM brinjal, which is sometimes used even for medicinal purposes. IntelliBriefs
A breathalyzer gives results right now, urinalysis gives results next week — which one has the better chance of preventing an intoxicated employee from crashing the bulldozer today? The Volokh Conspiracy » May Oregon Law Ban Employers’ Firing Employees Because the Employees Use Medical Marijuana?
The former Victorian workhouse in which my grandparents died has since been bulldozed, but its appalling bad practice still needs to be swept away. Times, Sunday Times
The bulldozer continued to advance, burying her in the pile of rubble before driving over her twice.
Eight were forced out by police and detained for hours while their property was bulldozed. Times, Sunday Times
Another couple had their drive bulldozed by the clerk of the local town hall, who claimed that the land was his. Times, Sunday Times
The coalition bulldozed the resolution through the plenary session.
The factory was bulldozed some years ago and the land is currently overgrown and derelict.
The workers bulldozed the building site.
Local authority-owned facilities in the area, known as Hawthorn, could be bulldozed to make way for new buildings, possibly houses.

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