The word 'steamroller' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a large, heavy vehicle with a roller or compacting device used to flatten and smooth surfaces. Example: The construction workers used a steamroller to flatten the road before paving it.
The steamroller was to prove unstoppable all the way to the mass riots of 1990 after its introduction into England and Wales – and its role in triggering Thatcher's downfall six months later.
Under substantial pressure, she eventually flies to Los Angeles to meet the person she is least likely to get on with in the entire world: big, cuddly, overfamiliar steamroller Walt Disney (Tom Hanks).
The problem with arguing with science is that it is often an uneven contest, a bit like hitting a steamroller with a stick of rhubarb.
"Not until the military steamroller has passed over [Waziristan] from end to end will there be peace," wrote Lord Curzon, a British viceroy of India at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.With 50,000 Pakistani troops now battling the Taliban in Waziristan, even that may be optimistic.
That suggests that DS-UWB will have the market to itself for a few months, but will then succumb to the MBOA steamroller.
Mr Sarkozy's comeback, starting with his steamroller campaign to take over the centre-right UMP party in November, will sharpen opposition to Mr Valls.
Mr Pérez's campaign manager sneered that his candidate's "steamroller advance" had forced Mr López and Mr Capriles into each other's arms.
THE climax of "Sleeper", a futuristic fantasy from the 1970s that was directed by, and starred, Woody Allen, has Mr Allen's character throw the preserved, disembodied nose of a dictator beneath a steamroller.
"Amazon could ultimately steamroller everybody," predicts David Linthicum of Cloud Technology Partners, a consultancy.To avoid being left behind in the drift to the cloud, Oracle and Microsoft want to show that their services work well together to win customers who fear being locked into a single firm's products.
This meant that only 44 constituencies had been left for that part of the centrist Union for French Democracy (UDF), led by François Bayrou, which has refused to surrender its independence to the UMP.Can anything stop the Chirac steamroller gathering pace?
Videos have been taken of an official steamroller running over the offending handlebars while representatives from the economic police, the Market Management Bureau and the People's Committee stand solemnly to attention watching justice being done.In this section The not-so-great power The frost before the thaw Autonomy or anarchy?
