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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Despite his strength, he did not walk rough-shod over others.
CHAPTER VII 2010
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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