steamroll
IPA: stˈimroʊɫ
verb
- To flatten, as if with a steamroller.
- (figurative) To ruthlessly crush or overwhelm.
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Examples of "steamroll" in Sentences
- I'm not looking to steamroll you.
- The steamroller comes in predictably.
- He will discuss rather than steamroll.
- So the effect is that of a steamroller.
- A quick steamroll does not consensus make.
- Behaving like a steamroller is not one of them.
- No, you can't steamroller it out of the article.
- Please stop trying to steamroll this discussion.
- In the scene with the steamroller 10 Ys are used.
- But the steamroller you describe is puny to the Xtreme.
- For years, the flying wedge was used to steamroll over defenders, causing injuries.
- Eliot Spitzer, elected in 2006 with a huge mandate, tried to "steamroll" a bunch of hacks in Albany.
- He accused the Government and ANC of trying to "steamroll" an agreement through the negotiating council.
- The Chinese certainly assume that they can "steamroll" this administration, as we saw from the last meeting there.
- President Obama should take a note from Bush 43 and just steamroll his policy, don't the democrats hold a majority on capital hill
- Other Democrats charged in 2005 that the Republican leadership wanted to "steamroll" legislation through Congress "with no hearings.")
- Poizner says he supports a "two-tier" system for current and new state employees but doesn't think that a new governor will be able to come in and "steamroll" the unions.
- While it is obviously true that traditional progressive policy does not tend to give much weight to arbitrarily asserted unenumerated rights made up from whole cloth by activist judges (hello Roe v. Wade!) the purpose of progressivism was never to steamroll or disrespect the individual.
- I would criticize the progressive movement on the grounds that they could possible think more direct democracy was a good idea (that is, empower ordinary individuals in government too much, even though ordinary individuals are too ignorant to make complicated policy decisions), not on the grounds that they wanted to steamroll the individual.