Sentence examples for could ride over from inspiring English sources

"When the government was shut down, we had a relatively new governor that the Legislature thought they could ride over," said Brigid Harrison, a political scientist at Montclair State University.

(If you're not sure what your race pace is, it's simple to work out – it's the speed you could maintain for the duration of your event. For Olympic distance triathletes, it's the pace you could ride for 40km; for sprint racers, it's the pace you could ride over 20km).

It has been consistently claimed the club could ride over a season without the £30m generated from a good Champions League run.

"It wasn't because they thought they could ride roughshod over him.

Mr Bush could ride roughshod over the opposition so long as the Republican Congress marched in lock-step with the administration—and so long as the massed conservative ranks in the country were willing to lend him vigorous support.

If the government knew it could guarantee getting its own way in the end, it could ride roughshod over revisions, and sneak even more policy through in secondary legislation.

Did you live that kind of life? A. I grew up in Long Island City, and ran around Manhattan as soon as I could ride my bike over the 59th Street Bridge.

He will sometimes eulogise the Los Angeles of his youth - "I could ride my bike all over" - and lament the desecration that began in the 1950s.

The team had become a national joke, and only a man of unquestioned status could ride the inevitable defeats over the long years of rebuilding that were meant to culminate in a respectable showing at the World Cup of 2006 in their own country.

Blanche Lincoln, the former Democratic senator from Arkansas and a longtime backer of her home state retailer, said in an interview that she thought that Wal-Mart could ride out the negative publicity over the Mexico controversy.

Army leaders could ride on the back of the popular movement to take over indefinitely.