stiff-arming

Bush crony Zalmay Khalilizad and the CIA orchestrated one of the most tragic acts in U.S. foreign policy history when they overrode the voice of three quarters of the delegates at the 2002 loya jirga in Afghanistan by stiff-arming aside the people's choice - King Zahir Shah - to illegitimately install their Unocal pal as head of state.

Michael Hughes: Bush Created A No-Win Situation in Afghanistan for Obama Michael Hughes 2010

"I believe in another sport it's called 'stiff-arming,'" Webb said, complaining that he only got a phone call informing him of Gates 'decision 15 minutes before it was publicly announced.

Webb accuses Pentagon of 'stiff-arming' Virginia on JFCOM closure Ben Pershing 2010

Bush crony Zalmay Khalilizad and the CIA orchestrated one of the most tragic acts in U.S. foreign policy history when they overrode the voice of three quarters of the delegates at the 2002 loya jirga in Afghanistan by stiff-arming aside the people's choice - King Zahir Shah - to illegitimately install their Unocal pal as head of state.

Michael Hughes: Bush Created A No-Win Situation in Afghanistan for Obama Michael Hughes 2010

Past a security guard, down a long corridor, and resting in a marble-walled viewing area is a 45-pound replica of the bronze, stiff-arming trophy—modeled by NYU running back Ed Smith and won over generations by college gridiron stars from Doak Walker to Paul Hornung to Doug Flutie to Cam Newton.

Occupy the Heisman Trophy? Jason Gay 2011

The White House had been essentially stiff-arming Fox reporters in a very Nixonian way until someone at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue wised up.

Does Fox News deserve to be silenced? 2010

Whatever freaky, radical, new aged, bleeding heart concept they can latch themselves onto, they do so with gusto, running with it, stiff-arming adversaries like the guy on the Heismann trophy.

A Geo-Political Rant. Again. wendigomountain 2009

Bush crony Zalmay Khalilizad and the CIA orchestrated one of the most tragic acts in U.S. foreign policy history when they overrode the voice of three quarters of the delegates at the 2002 loya jirga in Afghanistan by stiff-arming aside the people's choice - King Zahir Shah - to illegitimately install their Unocal pal as head of state.

Michael Hughes: Bush Created A No-Win Situation in Afghanistan for Obama Michael Hughes 2010

"I believe in another sport it's called 'stiff-arming,'" said Webb, who complained that he received a phone call informing him of Gates's decision only 15 minutes before it was publicly announced.

Sen. Webb accuses Pentagon of stonewalling on plan to close military command Ben Pershing 2010

"If the next expansion fails to lift the middle class, if it bubbles and bursts, if it gives a high five to Wall Street while stiff-arming Main Street, then it will be an expansion that we will not be proud of and it will not be the expansion that the President and I believe this nation so badly needs," the vice president said.

Biden To Wall-Street-Friendly Democrats: The Middle Class Comes First 2010

If the next expansion fails to lift the middle class, if it bubbles and bursts, if it gives a high five to Wall Street while stiff-arming Main Street, then it will be an expansion that we will not be proud of and it will not be the expansion that the President and I believe this nation so badly needs.

Biden To Wall-Street-Friendly Democrats: The Middle Class Comes First 2010