The phrase "a trampling of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an act of trampling or a situation where something is being disregarded or oppressed.
Example: "The new policy was seen as a trampling of the rights of the workers."
Alternatives: "an infringement of" or "a violation of".
But Mr. Goldberg held him accountable for what he described as a "trampling of the law" by his One Israel Party, and fined the party $3.2 million.
To her son, the appeal to expediency spells utter betrayal, a trampling of the very values by which she has taught him to live his life.
"To have this broad request to turn over everything related to the case, to me, is just a trampling of the First Amendment and the journalist's privilege," he said.
Which doesn't magically erase his constitutional rights, Nation correspondent Jeremy Scahill points out: jeremy scahill (@jeremyscahill) This exchange between Feinstein & Brennan is a perfect example of a trampling of due process in the US.
When a judge ordered a documentary filmmaker in May to turn over to Chevron all the unused footage from his 2009 film about an environmental controversy in Ecuador, the director, Joe Berlinger, called the ruling "a trampling of the First Amendment and the journalist's privilege".
Mr. Blagojevich, a two-term Democrat who was widely unpopular with lawmakers long before his arrest on federal corruption charges last month, denounced the Senate's trial on Friday as a "trampling of the Constitution" and tried to take his case instead to the public, in what is expected to be a sustained campaign of news interviews.
However, as a result of the criminal prosecution of principals of Megaupload for alleged copyright infringement, we see a trampling on the rule of law to extent which is unprecedented and frightening.
He appeared in the odd episode of ER, Joan Of Arcadia and Buffy, and played the lead in the miniseries Dinotopia, opposite a trample of CGI dinosaurs.
Perhaps mass surveillance — a tech-powered dystopia we are living through right here, right now — is not just a massive trampling of our human rights, but also a giant red flag reminding humanity of the importance of moderating our consumptive impulses.
But the use of public resources - in this case, municipal police officers - to remove the man for simply wearing an article of clothing seemed to me like a blatant trampling of the man's First Amendment rights (take AM760's online poll here to vote on whether you think it was appropriate to eject him).
Such a roughshod trampling of civil liberties should never again be allowed to happen on the streets of New York or any other American city.
