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To be clear, guys aren't alone in riding roughshod over their peers.
Man does not live by half a loaf while riding roughshod over a house divided against itself.
They say the Republicans are riding roughshod over minority rights in what amounts to a sham hearing.
Working to change rules, for sure, but not always so publicly riding roughshod over them as it used to.
With the disappearances, pro-democracy activists in the city say that Chinese authorities are riding roughshod over the agreement.
"It's painful to me to see this kind of amateur diplomacy, riding roughshod over our State Department apparatus," Rooney said.
"It's painful to me to see this kind of amateur diplomacy riding roughshod over our State Department apparatus," said Rep.
This is part of a worrying pattern: consulting too narrowly, riding roughshod over opposition and then backtracking ignominiously or carrying on regardless.
Jaime and Cersei as a fantasy Bonnie and Clyde, riding roughshod over the Westerosi countryside, is something that could be fun, sure.
Tellingly, left-wing governments in Bolivia and Ecuador have backed mining and hydrocarbons projects, in the latter case riding roughshod over opposition.
Government officials have long been seen as riding roughshod over local custom as well as getting in the way of industrious entrepreneurs.
The 64-year-old then rushed to sell the chain to Chappell, riding roughshod over regulatory concerns about the suitability of the new owner.
Centrist voters may not care whether Trump is riding roughshod over institutions, but they'll care if he rips them off or costs them jobs.
This — and a growing civil society movement sick of Big Tobacco riding roughshod over the health of Indonesians in pursuit of profit — is driving change.
Responding to the criticism, a senior party official of Macron's Republic on the Move (LREM) party said there would be no riding roughshod over alternative views.
That being so, riding roughshod over Mr. Meng wasn't costly internationally — on the other hand, it could cause shock and awe among Mr. Xi's domestic opponents.
Until recently, many archaeologists were shockingly insensitive and arrogant in the way they conducted fieldwork, riding roughshod over the feelings, religious beliefs, and traditions of indigenous people.
Riding roughshod over the rights of French Muslims is easier than admitting deadly errors in Nice, better funding law enforcement or dealing with France's pervasive discrimination and social exclusion.
When he started using the term, it was the Americans who were tearing up treaties and international agreements on the environment and riding roughshod over international norms and conventions.
The Trump administration has alienated its European allies by dumping out of the Iran deal -- which until last month Iran continued to abide by -- and generally riding roughshod over their concerns.
Traders say that they are being priced out, that local officials are riding roughshod over their complaints, and that a hub for the British capital's Spanish-speaking minority will be lost.
For the populist right, it's about globalisation riding roughshod over national interest and identity and the liberal elite destroying the pride and cohesion of "people like us" by imposing diversity and cosmopolitanism.
In fact, this year's "A Better Deal" economic plan put forward by congressional Democrats would have the federal government prohibit right-to-work laws, riding roughshod over any states that think otherwise.
Consequently, what some may see as an examination of loss and legacy, others will view as a portrait of psychological coercion: overbearing men riding roughshod over the wishes of a grieving woman.
During his presidency, Mr. Hernández has developed a new military police force at least 3,000 strong that, riding roughshod over the Honduran Constitution, has taken over much of the responsibility for domestic policing.
For the past 40 years constitutionalists have worried that Britain is turning into a presidential regime, with the prime minister sucking ever more power into Downing Street and riding roughshod over notional checks and balances.
However, any such "haircuts" are anathema to European creditors who have guilty consciences about riding roughshod over the no-bailout rule, and who fear a taxpayer backlash against explicit losses on loans made to Greece.
While fans say they help free city centers from traffic and promote cycling, critics argue they have taken advantage of a lack of regulations and are riding roughshod over local communities to act as "parasites" on public space.
There's a lesson in that for the government: Instead of riding roughshod over its citizens, refusing consultation and shooting down protesters, the authorities have to include the public in their planning decisions for the country's future energy needs.
Maduro hit back at critics from the left who accuse him of riding roughshod over environmental rules and indigenous rights in the Orinoco mineral belt in Venezuela's south in his rush to shore up his government's precarious finances.
Ms. O'Keeffe, who has been evicted twice in recent years, said a sense of transience hung over most young people's lives in Dublin now, with the dream of homeownership replaced by the reality of aggressive landlords riding roughshod over renters.
One would hardly know it nowadays, with a dominant president riding roughshod over a long-emasculated Congress, which has been further neutered by partisan loyalty that further undermines the founders' system of checks and balances (which was created before the advent of political parties).
Transferring power from local to the federal government; empowering unaccountable bureaucrats to pursue abstract goods such as "equality of representation" (even if it means riding roughshod over local institutions); and undermining the vitality of civil society tends, they fear, to destroy the building blocks of Tocqueville's America.
Lawmakers hit back, saying the government was riding roughshod over a democratically elected parliament - the latest tug of war over who should have influence over talks that will shape Britain's future standing in the world by unraveling more than 40 years of union with the bloc.
Much as Mr. Trump crashed the gates of the 2016 presidential campaign, riding roughshod over the established political culture, his personally branded hotel will cut an anomalous figure in an understated city where the most potent power is invisible and conspicuous displays of wealth are generally avoided.
Green's family, led by his Monaco-based wife Tina, accrued "incredible wealth" during the early, profitable years of owning BHS, but failed to invest sufficiently in it, the lawmakers said Green then rushed to sell the chain to Chappell, riding roughshod over regulatory concerns about the suitability of the new owner.
But there's no doubt it will be a battle to get there — requiring legal challenges and fresh case law to be set down — as an old guard of dominant tech platforms marshal their extensive resources to try to hold onto the power and wealth gained through years of riding roughshod over data protection law.
For example, Apple has invested in pro-privacy technologies that enable it to leverage data-based insights while protecting individual privacy, such as its use of differential privacy to pull aggregate patterns of behaviour across its user-base; rather than pursuing a per-person profiling approach, as adtech giants Google and Facebook do, riding roughshod over individual privacy in the process.
Though Redding wrote or co-wrote classics like "Respect" and "I've Been Loving You Too Long," certainly much of his greatest work came as an interpretive singer, often of such seemingly unlikely material as "Satisfaction" (a rare example, Gould writes, of "a black artist soliciting the attention of white listeners by riding roughshod over one of the great pop songs of the day") or his showstopping, sweat-drenched version of "Try a Little Tenderness" ("an act of cultural appropriation, not accommodation").
GM Creditors Will Let Asset Sale Go Forward While They Appeal. Bloomberg.com, July 7, 2009. Chrysler and British Petroleum (BP),Riding Roughshod Over Chapter 11? NY Times DealBook, June 9, 2009.Complications in BP’s Asset Sales. NY Times DealBook, July 20, 2010.
They are verging on despotism and abusing their powers. They are riding roughshod over the Sultan, which is causing the enmity of the religious element.” (The New York Times, October 1, 1908). He further explained that the German Ambassador helped the Sultan in negotiating the loan of the 4,000,000 livres recently obtained from the Deutsche Bank.
Martin, Lawrence Iron Man, Toronto: Viking, 2003 page 374. Many of the MPs accused the PMO of riding roughshod over them, and accused the prime minister of being a bully.Martin, Lawrence Iron Man", Toronto: Viking, 2003 page 374 Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish recalled about that caucus meeting that she could not believe that "these ungrateful sons of #######", as she called the pro-Martin MPs, would attack Chrétien at a caucus meeting so openly. For Chrétien's reaction, Parrish stated: "His face was evil.
The Labour Party gathered 35.4% of the popular vote, which was an increase of 2.7% and resulted in three additional seats in parliament. This led to the continuation of the Red-Green Coalition government. After the election, many opposition leaders believed that the government would collapse because of the Labour Party constantly riding roughshod over their coalition partners. In an opinion poll in November, two months after the election, all parties continued to decrease, leading many to speculate that the coalition was "slipping".
With the support of the head of the Police Authority, Guangzhou’s top villain Ho Kei-Kin (Dayo Wong) has been riding roughshod over everyone around him. He is so manipulative that he has explored every possible means in his fight for a house with the buck-toothed owner Ling Yuk Tsui (Cecilia Yip). However, he was originally a kind-hearted person. His change of heart was due to him being mistreated by his father back when he was a child.
Once again the politicians arrived but returned disappointed. This put Penney under great pressure. On the one hand, if Maralinga was to be used for many years then riding roughshod over Australian concerns about safety at an early date was inadvisable; on the other, there was the urgent need to test Red Beard in time for the upcoming Operation Grapple, the test of a British hydrogen bomb. Whether Buffalo or Grapple was more important was the subject of debate in the UK between Willis Jackson, who argued for Buffalo, and Bill Cook, who argued for Grapple.
An editor of the Progressive Farmer called it the best painting he had ever seen in a public building. The mural was the only one Binford did for the Fine Arts Section. In 1941 Binford was commissioned to paint a mural of the burning of Richmond (1865) for the Post Office of Saunders, Virginia. Intending to illustrate the suffering of the southerners during the last days of the Confederacy, Binford submitted a preliminary sketch showing a street scene with looters, a mother trying to escape with her baby over bodies of dead soldiers lying on the ground, a half-naked woman who had torn off her blouse to prevent herself from being scorched, a horseman riding roughshod over all.
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell made a statement on the day following the shootings and commented about the Millers' presence on the Bundy ranch. She said, "It's very important to bring lawbreakers to justice. There's no question that my colleagues back here, the governors of Western states, do not want people riding roughshod over the landscape ... [Bundy] had put our people in grave danger by calling in armed citizens from around the country." U.S. Senator Harry Reid, who had a staff member related to one of the victims, said, "All of Nevada mourns the tragic loss of our neighbors, our friends, and in the case of Officers Alyn Beck and Igor Soldo, our protectors" and called for universal background checks in the purchases of firearms.
The Scottish Government rejected the UK government's internal market plans since first proposed in July 2020, with the First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon quoted as saying that the plans are "riding roughshod over the powers of the Scottish parliament." It did not rule out legal action. Sturgeon described the Bill as "an abomination which would cripple devolution" and that "the UK government are not only set to break international law – it is clear they are now set to break devolution". She tweeted on 9 September 2020 that it is a "full frontal assault on devolution" and later said it was an "abomination on almost every level." The SNP's Westminster Leader Ian Blackford said to Boris Johnson during Prime Minister's Questions on 9 September 2020 that he was "creating a rogue state where the rule of law does not apply." and that "the time for Scotland’s place as an independent, international, law-abiding nation is almost here".

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