How To Use Steamroller In A Sentence

Vick proceeded to steamroller the board in the manner to which we have by now become accustomed.
Pro-hunters fear that if peers refuse to back the Commons this time the Government will use the Parliament Acts to steamroller a ban into law.
Every person who stands up in protest against the plans makes it that little bit more awkward for the powers-that-be to steamroller ahead.
The story is a steamroller, flattening everything in order to make its ‘big ironic point’.
What is happening to the campaigning steamroller that was going to propel the new prophets of technocratic and meritocracy craving Labor into power?

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Back then England were steamrollering sides and we were told that they were unbeatable, especially as we were playing them at Twickenham.
The motion was steamrollered through in the lower chamber.
If the policies of these two disparate figures often have a tweedledum-and-tweedledee-ish look to them, then what we face is not specific party politics or individual style, but a system with its own steamroller force, and its own set of narrow, repetitive “solutions” to our problems. Tom Engelhardt: Living in the 51st State (of Denial)
The people of Pateley Bridge feel they are being steamrollered into accepting the three-storey building being placed on a corner site on the Southlands car park half way up the High Street.
He steamrollered the bill through Parliament against fierce opposition.
Well, if this brief, Mannheim-Steamroller-worthy MP3 sample of Thaler's handiwork is really the music of an immortal future, I have to admit, a mortal opt-out is looking better and better. posted by Matthew @ 9: 20 AM Archive 2007-04-01
With the democratic steamroller gaining speed, even United Nations officials in Baghdad are increasingly optimistic.
In 1996, the Scotsman simply steamrollered him, before Ebdon, who abandoned academia to serve his apprenticeship at Kings Cross Snooker Club, finally took on the mantle of the master.
I just wondered how many other people they have steamrollered.
And they used the Parliament Act 1949 to steamroller the legislation onto the statute books.
He complains that various national peculiarities are being steamrollered by the tyranny of a new ‘international imperialism’.
My Clayton and Shuttleworth steamroller Excelsior was delivered new to Alfred J Ward and Sons in 1902.
And in that very hangar next door had li ved the R 100, which had flown to Canada and back, before she was broken up with a steamroller. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
He wants to steamroller ahead with plans to make people save for their old age, rather than compelling the state or the employer to contribute more.
The steamroller was now a rusty, immobile, piece of heavy machinery.
The city passed a resolution in 1987 to name a street in a new development in Rivière-des-Prairies after L' Ouverture, but the steamrollers never touched the tarmac.
But it lingered in his mind that if something arose that they had to steamroller through, I would be the type to resign on principle.
This will certainly give opponents another point of attack, once the Government steamrollers the bill through Parliament.
The row over fox-hunting is now set to reach a climax as the government has pledged to use the Parliament Act to steamroller a hunting ban into law if the House of Lords rejects the Bill.
Yet neither his words nor the progressive education movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s could stop the political steamroller of testing.
Telling my parents ‘No’ is like talking to a steamroller: they don't listen, and insist on plowing you over or dragging you along whether you like it or not.
This is hardly the place to rehearse the errors and elisions in his original article, or the way it allows its thesis like a steamroller to flatten the facts.
Denise Mooloo (NP) said the indecent haste with which the bill was being steamrollered through parliament, with no public debate, reeked of ulterior motives and powerful vested interests. ANC Daily News Briefing
A lone steamroller trundled along what was supposed to be the car park.
Rather than being a preordained victory for a Prussian steamroller, the war was a fascinating and uncertain contest between two rival military systems.
Obscene video tapes and counterfeit CD-ROMs are sometimes ordered crushed by steamrollers, and I believe mobile phones should suffer the same fate.
Against the backdrop of the London trial, their win in the UAE, against a side ranked above them, represented a heartening refusal to be steamrollered by events beyond their control. Pakistan Shows Resilience Amid Turmoil
Beside the A6 near Garstang was a family concern contracting with threshing machines, traction engines and steamrollers.
In response to the challenge, a number of senior Lib Dem MPs have called for Kennedy to accelerate the production of new policy announcements to avoid being steamrollered.
The new President was about to undergo his first experience of the bureaucratic steamroller.
I am sure they expected to steamroller through their proposals.
Andrew Strauss and Ricky Ponting offer their reactions after England steamrollered their way to an innings victory in the fourth Test to ensure that the Ashes will be remaining in their possession until at least 2013 The Ashes 2010-11: England management focussed on securing the series | Mike Selvey
Clear the road and keep an eye out for the steamroller.
It is an institution that encourages the rich and powerful to steamroller aside all opposition, if they can.
Defeat at Trafalgar ended any hope of maritime supremacy for France, and thus any realistic hope of vanquishing the British, but Napoleon continued to steamroller his continental opponents.
Otherwise this year's gathering will remain untouched featuring everything from traditional fairground rides to traction engines, steamrollers and wagons.
And in that very hangar next door had li ved the R 100, which had flown to Canada and back, before she was broken up with a steamroller. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
He's capable of steamrollering me and I'm capable of steamrollering him.
If the Government has to steamroller the ban through using the Parliament Act it will come into force immediately, bringing the prospect of huge protests and rural unrest.
A big thank you to our excellent MP for standing up for us ‘little people’ when the council threatened to steamroller this through.
This is hardly the place to rehearse the errors and elisions in his original article, or the way it allows its thesis like a steamroller to flatten the facts.
In a single night, the scaffolding was removed from the facades, the steamrollers left the streets, and the earthmovers departed from the parks.
They simply want to steamroller through developments that have no place in the town.
The UP government's mischievous attempt to steamroller the Places of Worship Bill is a case in point.
He steamrollered the bill through Parliament against fierce opposition.
‘Most people in the local communities around here do not want the wind farm but feel as if they are being steamrollered into accepting it,’ said Sophie Dey.
Only with this Labour Council do we have this naked attempt to steamroller through a scheme without proper consultation.
This wouldn't matter if the material were intrinsically funny, and the performances were strong enough to steamroller the audience into acceptance of the authors' premise.
This kind of schizo-steamroller behavior seemed more natural for a man, at least to me. Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
The motion was steamrollered through in the lower chamber.
On Tuesday, the Broadcasting Amendment Bill was "steamrollered" through the National Assembly by the ANC. ANC Daily News Briefing
If there is a coherent source for the rather unkind public debate over Patel's heft it is the England management's fixation with nurturing a pack-like sense of intimidatory conditioning, the relentless corporate identity that so thrillingly steamrollered the Australians in the winter. Why Samit Patel's cricket skill set carries so much weight | Barney Ronay
Then there are Steamrollers' trademarked Wet Ones, burritos topped with a selection of housemade sauces and toppings.
If there is a coherent source for the rather unkind public debate over Patel's heft it is the England management's fixation with nurturing a pack-like sense of intimidatory conditioning, the relentless corporate identity that so thrillingly steamrollered the Australians in the winter. Why Samit Patel's cricket skill set carries so much weight | Barney Ronay
He's got an ego the size of Ecuador, bad hair, ugly glasses and the kind of ambition that grinds up underlings and flattens more decent people than a steamroller at a Peter, Paul and Mary concert.
Everything from show engines to traction engines, steamrollers and steam tractors kept spectators intrigued.
Kimberley on May 28 had been "steamrollered" by ANC representatives ANC Daily News Briefing
The Tories denounced him as a crazed self-publicist seeking to usurp more senior figures to steamroller the country into signing up to the single currency.
He was a steamroller at guard, but now he's playing a new position.
While some fragments of buildings and heaps of distinguishable rubble littered the area, most of the area was flattened as if paved by a steamroller.
He called for all MPs to ask the Chancellor to consult small business groups before trying to steamroller through the controversial measures.
I think the council was trying to steamroller us and gamble that we would not go to the district valuer.
You know then that within an hour of beginning, it will feel like someone's trying to pop open your noggin with a steamroller.
Crawford was eager to allow the bureaucrats to steamroller over any meaningful citizen participation in the process.
But speaking from the scene of the vote Karpov's supporters this afternoon described the ballot as a "farce", and said Ilyumzhinov had used "intimidation, bully-boy tactics" and even "blatant corruption" to steamroller his way to victory. Chess world shocked as Karpov fails to capture top job
The second chamber needs both independence and a level of strength to prevent any one government steamrollering ill-conceived legislation through parliament.
Ann Day, R-Tucson, the legislative steamroller behind a move to regulate HMOs.
A lot of people have fought hard to save the schools but the ruling group had made its mind up a long time ago and there was no way we could stop the steamroller.
Crawford was eager to allow the bureaucrats to steamroller over any meaningful citizen participation in the process.
Until yesterday morning Jack McConnell was standing in the middle of the road watching a steamroller coming towards him.
But I also hope that, god forbid, if their magazine against all odds becomes a financial success, their love of books and concern for writers isn't crushed out by some corporate steamroller.
He was a fast-talking, wheeler-dealing steamroller of a man who dressed in skin-tight trousers and a cowboy hat. John
I protested, but she ran me over with the efficiency of a steamroller.
The motion was steamrollered through in the lower chamber.
He steamrollered the plan through the committee.
Mr Oldfield, of London Road, Clacton, drove steamrollers used to surface the town's first roads and many in the surrounding district in the early half of the 20th century.
They steamrollered the bill through Parliament.
A glance over the port rail revealed a steamroller lying on the seabed at 70m.
An exponential moving average is slow but steady, like a directional indicator on a steamroller.
The steamroller would seem to rest too, just sighing little driblets of steam, when the roadmen took their breaks.
This technology is coming like a turbo steamroller.
There's no point sitting like a hedgehog squeaking in front of an enormous steamroller.
Despite wholesale opposition to the proposal, it is moving ever closer to becoming reality after being steamrollered through by the board at the club's AGM on Monday.
Then he brought in steamrollers to flatten the rubble like parking lots.
The roadworkers used machinery such as the steamroller and crusher depicted.
He is concerned that Royal Mail intends to steamroller its cost-cutting plans in spite of all opposition.
But Michael Howard accused the Prime Minister of being ‘arrogant’ for steamrollering the new anti-terrorist powers through Parliament.
A number of men were working on the road and it is believed the steamroller rolled back dragging Mr Brown underneath.
Global strategies can steamroller people who have a profound insight in local markets for the grace of outsourcing and other large management techniques.
He steamrollered the plan through the committee.
The examples are legion: caretaker, steamroller, gag, passing the torch, and domino theory are among them, though whip (abbreviation of the foxhunting term whipper-in) is not metaphorical in the sense often erroneously supposed. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 1
steamroller the road
‘They steamrollered us,’ was John Hughes' simple verdict.
I record the Opposition's gratitude for the role that the Clerk and his office played in holding back the steamroller of the executive.
The Rev. Calvin Butts, the highprofile minister of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, has mounted a crusade against the more feral strains of the music; last summer he held a rally at which he ran a steamroller over offending tapes and CDs. Criminal Records
Watched by thousands, almost 5,000 weapons were flattened by a steamroller or burnt in a pyre.
Significantly, the two parties came together in the parliament to steamroller through the legislation creating the three new states.
I reach behind me and feel my lower back, where it had felt like I'd been run over by a steamroller repeatedly.
The Senator steamrollered the bill to defeat
If Brown, Cook and Short have serious misgivings, he is running out of senior allies who would help to steamroller any controversial decisions through Cabinet and, if necessary, the House of Commons.
Crawford was eager to allow the bureaucrats to steamroller over any meaningful citizen participation in the process.
Patience paid off for Martin Hunter's youngsters as they finally steamrollered their opponents after going a goal down just before the break.
This, after all, is the company which invented the Walkman, which once dominated the games console industry with the PlayStation, which steamrollered the US TV market in the 1970s with the Trinitron. A game that Sony must win
Pregnancy Bill had been "steamrollered" through Parliament was cheap politics and utterly hypocritical coming from the party that first introduced abortion into South Africa, ANC Health committee chairman Dr Abe Nkomo said on Wednesday. ANC Daily News Briefing
He also accused Cuomo of tapping the phone lines used by himself and his relatives and of taking a "steamroller approach" against political enemies, a reference to the term disgraced and former Gov. KansasCity.com: Front Page
The slightest progressive wrinkles of even the starchiest corporate Democrats have been ironed out by media steamrollers. Norman Solomon: Obama's Clarifying Win: The Fly on the Wall Is the Wall
A giant compactor - like a huge steamroller - prowls back and forth over this mess, compressing and squeezing it down so it takes up less space.
The bill looks set to pass into law, and is being steamrollered through Parliament in less than two weeks, by curtailing the time available to debate and scrutinise the proposed legislation.
steamroller the opposition
The new teacher tends to steamroller
Having failed to steamroller the United Nations Security Council into supporting its invasion, the US has created a tinpot ‘coalition of the willing’ instead.
In the First, the Russian steamroller, after initial advances, was put into reverse; in the Second, the Red Army, after severe setbacks, advanced into the centre of Europe.
If that happens, then the threat of the use of the Parliament Act to steamroller the Bill into law looms large.
The ensuing battle stopped the German steamroller and laid the foundation for what would become years of stalemated, bloody trench warfare.
But he came in here and he was flattened like a bit of bread under a steamroller.
Israel sent a formidable team that racked up a massive 22-point average in the Round Robin, then steamrollered strong sides from Sweden and France in the semi-final and final respectively. The greatest kibitzer of all time
America is the steamroller of modernity, and its forcing the Europeans to adapt.
I have seen drivers behind the wheels of steamrollers and backhoes, working with freakish intensity, doing the bidding of a boozemaster who had dangled twelve-packs before them.
Now the firm whose steamrollers, traction engines, steam trams, trains and grass cutting equipment contributed to the city's industrial heritage has been recognised.
Defeat at Trafalgar ended any hope of maritime supremacy for France, and thus any realistic hope of vanquishing the British, but Napoleon continued to steamroller his continental opponents.
It is prepared to push on and roll over things like a steamroller.
Brussels bureaucrats may try to steamroller us into oneness, but people are stubborn.
A steamroller could yet restore the reputation of economic theory.
Lyn never actually saw this fight, but she saw Marco the day after, and he would have looked better if a steamroller had crushed him.
The motion was steamrollered through in the lower chamber.
‘People are now more religious,’ he says above the din of a steamroller smashing chunks of granite into a foundation for the new road.
In the front line of her social assaults was her husband Richard, a meek, hen-pecked individual who yearned for a quiet life but instead found himself steamrollered into falling in with his wife's plans.
Stan ZetieStreetly, West Midlands• Nick Clegg allowed David Cameron to fix constituency boundaries for a Tory victory next time, and the AV referendum he naively accepted in return is now being steamrollered by Tory money, Tory newspapers and a Tory front organisation. Letters: The case for AV – and alternative policies
Yat-Kha's music is a hypnotic mix of rock and folk, played on electric guitars and traditional Tuvan instruments, which one critic described as ‘not unlike having a steamroller driven over your head’.

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