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  • No wifely sedateness in this other, nor calm strength of control; but rather the waywardness of mutable desires, rough-shod imperiousness and strange moods.

    THE PROPER “GIRLIE” 2010

  • Like many Republicans, she appears to want to demolish Obama's Health Care Plan at all costs, even if it means running rough-shod over their own supposed values.

    Palin gets tough on Obama's health care proposals 2009

  • The conference organisers were aware, from the outset, of the danger of riding rough-shod over local needs, or of ignoring local expertise, and worked hard to involve teachers and trainers from across the region.

    N is for Native-speakerism « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • The capitalists have stolen our country, debauched our politics, defiled our judiciary, and ridden over us rough-shod, and now they propose to murder those who will not abjectly surrender to their brutal dominion.

    Chapter 17: The Scarlet Livery 2010

  • MLB's multi-billion dollar business is essentially unregulated by Congress and Selig has run rough-shod for more than twenty years rewarding those owners he favors while persecuting those in his doghouse like the Dodger's McCourt.

    Antonio Gonzalez: Say It Aint So, Bud Antonio Gonzalez 2011

  • Despite his strength, he did not walk rough-shod over others.

    CHAPTER VII 2010

  • MLB's multi-billion dollar business is essentially unregulated by Congress and Selig has run rough-shod for more than twenty years rewarding those owners he favors while persecuting those in his doghouse like the Dodger's McCourt.

    Antonio Gonzalez: Say It Aint So, Bud Antonio Gonzalez 2011

  • But Red-Eye walked rough-shod over all our customs, and we so feared him that we were incapable of the collective action necessary to punish him.

    CHAPTER IX 2010

  • He learned to eat and dress and generally comport himself after the manner of civilized man; but through it all he remained himself, not unduly reverential nor considerative, and never hesitating to stride rough-shod over any soft-faced convention if it got in his way and the provocation were great enough.

    Chapter I 2010

  • Neither article is perfect, but where one blows the topic wide open, offering both individual and generalizable insights into the human condition, the other takes a complicated and equally important aspect of human experience and shoves it, rough-shod, into unimaginative and easily discountable retail packaging.

    Cory Silverberg: The Death of Gender? 2010

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