How To Use Roughshod In A Sentence
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He's a cruel person who loves to ride roughshod over other people's feeling.
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There is no way for them to ride roughshod and defecate over our heads.
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These laws allow the security forces to continue to ride roughshod over the human rights of the people.
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As this century closes and we enter the first computational millennium, one of the great conflicts in civilization will be the attempt to reorder society, culture and government in a manner that exploits this digital bonanza yet prevents it from running roughshod over the checks and balances so delicately constructed in those palmy precomputer years.
Technomania
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They accused the government of riding roughshod over parliamentary procedure.
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These managers rode roughshod over the rules that govern corporate activity and betrayed the trust of the investors.
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We know the Government will ride roughshod over the people there.
Times, Sunday Times
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He said 24-hour waste wardens should be empowered to impose on the spot fines on ‘the handful’ of illegal dumpers, saying they cannot be allowed to ride roughshod over the natural environment.
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Who is going to stop the Saudis from funding insurgents and who is going to prevent the Pakistanis from helping the Taliban run roughshod through Afghanistan like they did when they effectuated the Taliban's rise in the mid-90s?
Michael Hughes: U.S. Brokering Afghan 'Peace' Plan With An Unholy Alliance
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An ill-tempered, compassionless moneygrubber, Scrooge runs roughshod over everyone he encounters.
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Instead they set out to ride roughshod over the legislative branch, attempting to govern without congress rather than with it.
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Mavis is the classic narcissist: cut off from objective reality, lacking any concern for other people, insecure in private but willing in public to ride roughshod over anyone and everything in order to gratify her whims.
Govindini Murty: Charlize Theron's Young Adult and the Crisis of Narcissism in Our Popular Culture
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The writer's imagination tries to overcompensate for his creative block by riding roughshod over any possible allusion to reality in his domestic environment.
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These laws allow the security forces to continue to ride roughshod over the human rights of the people.
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Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks
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In the last days of the struggle, police rode roughshod over the satyagrahis who refused to part with the contraband salt.
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The planning authorities should not ride roughshod over the wishes of local people.
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How will the unions react if she rides roughshod over him?
The Sun
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A man who rode roughshod over the feelings and susceptibilities of others was said to be ambitious; a woman who did the same was branded as arrogant.
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It rides roughshod over criminal and civil law, health and safety, human rights and immigration.
The Sun
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It would be a sad day indeed when an executive can ride roughshod over the judiciary, portrayed as anti-democratic.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the real blame lies with the arrogant, unaccountable and undemocratic European elite who rode roughshod over common sense and good economic advice.
The Sun
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We cannot ride roughshod over the concerns of the local community.
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Yet for all his roughshod opinions, Orwell was a gentle man who could be as fustily English as tea and crumpets.
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He rode roughshod over all opposition to his ideas.
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You will suffer long-term harm if you remain with a leader who runs roughshod over people and destroys lives.
Christianity Today
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Doesn't it make you angry that the banks have been allowed to ride roughshod over our economy, and are still handing out bonuses by the bucket-load?
Bankers' bonuses: Blind eye to blind rage | Editorial
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Yet for all his roughshod opinions, Orwell was a gentle man who could be as fustily English as tea and crumpets.
George Orwell
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It is because elected political sycophants are bought and sold like saltfish that leaders in government and opposition alike ride roughshod over the people's wishes.
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The PC industry has kind of run roughshod over its users, and the excuse has always been tied to the inexorable march of technology.
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The couple's lawyer said that the carrier had ridden roughshod over their right to protect their image.
Times, Sunday Times
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For them, he is the classic example of a Nimby and, to boot, a ‘white settler’, who thinks he can ride roughshod over local sensibilities.
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The planning authorities should not ride roughshod over the wishes of local people.
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a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition
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His employees run roughshod over him because he's scared of turning down their demands.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most people don't like centralization, believing it results in bloat, bureaucracy, declining services to the citizenry, and worst of all, the risk of an unchecked power running roughshod.
~synthesis~
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In most of them, however, there have been periods of stalemate and vacillation followed by periods when the party in power rode roughshod over the protests of many minorities, disregarding the fact that such action was not legitimatized by traditional morality.
Energy and Society~ Chapter 13~ The Enlargement and Concentration of Political Power
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Criminal cops ride roughshod over prosecutors and juries and railroad people into prison or worse.
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These laws allow the security forces to continue to ride roughshod over the human rights of the people.
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The source added: 'There was a lot of hostility from locals who saw it as a millionaire footballer riding roughshod over planning laws.
The Sun
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Instead they set out to ride roughshod over the legislative branch, attempting to govern without congress rather than with it.
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They have run roughshod over the poorest in our country and the people have spoken.
The Sun
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What rights do staff, pupils and parents have and can the government ride roughshod over these?
Times, Sunday Times
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These laws allow the security forces to continue to ride roughshod over the human rights of the people.
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DVD and Blu-ray, Universal Plenty of roughshod charm and spirit here as a straight-laced student becomes increasingly rebellious when he explores NY's Muslim hardcore punk scene.
This week's new DVD & Blu-ray
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In the book he shoots from the hip and rides roughshod over reputations, holding a modicum of his once monumental power and relishing it.
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Our task is not to run roughshod over its emerging capability, but to respect Afghan sovereignty.
Times, Sunday Times
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Recent weeks have seen it ride roughshod over ostrich breeders, society con artists, champagne fraudsters and the occasional fallen tycoon.
