Sentence examples for be trampled on from inspiring English sources

The best, and in fact the only, bulwark against this is political equality to ensure that those whose rights and interests will be trampled on have a say and can prevent it.

If you're shy and meek, you'll easily be trampled on by others and find yourself doing things you really don't want to.

Cheerfully mixing his metaphors, Mr Paul asked Americans: "Will we sit idly by and let our rights be trampled on?

Why did a happy, peaceful occasion like the marathon have to be trampled on in such an awful, bloody way?

In holding on to this idea of balance – a noble idea – the press corps sets itself up to be trampled on time and time again.

My mother was quite a stern woman, who tended to brush emotions under the carpet and leave them there to be trampled on.

It's rare these days to find a location that hasn't been trampled on by hundreds of people and photographed to death.

The enforced changes follow years of international condemnation that it was trampling on basic human rights.

But the implication was clear: Poverty itself is not a crime, and courts that treat it as such may themselves be trampling on the Constitution.

But smaller EU members correctly feared that they were being trampled on, and mounted furious resistance.There followed what one official calls a "cynical stitch-up".

"No one talked about a concern relative to the rights of Muslims being trampled on.