roughshod

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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
• You will suffer long-term harm if you remain with a leader who runs roughshod over people and destroys lives. Christianity Today
• 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
• Yet for all his roughshod opinions, Orwell was a gentle man who could be as fustily English as tea and crumpets. George Orwell
• 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.
• The PC industry has kind of run roughshod over its users, and the excuse has always been tied to the inexorable march of technology.
• The couple's lawyer said that the carrier had ridden roughshod over their right to protect their image. Times, Sunday Times
• 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.
• The planning authorities should not ride roughshod over the wishes of local people.
• a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition