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The city officials rode roughshod over the people who did not want their homes torn down for a new school.

But in its haste it has vilified creditors and ridden roughshod over their legitimate claims over the carmakers' assets.

All that can be compromised if, for instance, criminals ran roughshod on the Internet.

Recent revelations suggest that many lenders rode roughshod over legal niceties to push delinquent borrowers out of their homes.

Tom seems to ride roughshod over the friends.

So, are the Mongol hordes about to ride roughshod over the Old Continent?

Even if you are determined to reach your goals, you must be careful about riding roughshod over others to get what you want.

Ride roughshod over To take a course of action without regard for the feelings , opinions, or welfare of others .

No one should underestimate the Iron Chancelleress, who has ridden roughshod over her opponents over the years.

The mighty power of peace and justice defeated "overlords" who rode roughshod over the world and their unjust wars were lost.

The other guilds have run roughshod over them, splintering the Gruul into a loose confederation of war clans.

But he used tanks to shut down Congress, rode roughshod over the constitution and presided over systematic corruption.

This would aim at a problem that does not exist, while running roughshod over existing investors.

If the US is seen to be riding roughshod over Beijing's interests, the impulse to re-engage could backfire.

Unscrupulous corporate mandarins who run roughshod over their employees, loot their shareholders, and defraud their customers?

Often, these lawsuits have been brought against land developers and local officials who have run roughshod over individuals.

AIDESEP counters that his decrees ride roughshod over the property rights of the Indians.

These institutions are strong, and these constituencies have been ridden roughshod over before.

The Federal Trade Commission is reportedly investigating Twitter for running roughshod over its smaller business partners.

Mugabe had already run roughshod over the power-sharing agreement by appointing 61 ministers instead of the agreed 31, Makumbe said.

This is a shooting game similar to Contra, with a shotgun into the streets of Nouakchott, the eradication of evil forces to ride roughshod .

You rode roughshod over us in the past, and now, you wanna ride roughshod over us again in the name of human rights?

That also seems true of Chinese politics, in which government often rides roughshod over critics.

In America we let rich people run roughshod over the law, pay no penance, take no responsibility and let the taxpayers shoulder the burden!

Does a focus onenriching the shareholders mean that managers must act as greedy mercenariesriding roughshod over the weak and helpless?

Aggressive negotiators run roughshod over opponents with little regard for their counterparts' positions.

You shouldn't have come into our town to ride roughshod over our laws and our traditions.

He rides roughshod over his subordinates.

Together, these two organizations have run roughshod over your world for the past few decades.

Borrowers rode roughshod over investors.

incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic economic policies; a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition.

And it hardened Beijing's resolve to prevent foreign companies from running roughshod over their less-mature Chinese counterparts.

I don't think I run roughshod over people, but if something sucks, I tell people to their face.

They will certainly not allow the aggressors to ride roughshod over them for long.

a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition.

He rode roughshod over all our arguments.

If we allow others to ride roughshod over us, then we have ourselves to blame.

Real think they can ride roughshod over everyone, but they won't do it with us.

Khrushchev revisionism would have ridden roughshod over us. and our country would once again have been reduced to a colony or semi-colony.

Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks ;

bully and oppress; ride roughshod over