Sentence examples for steamrollered from inspiring English sources

On Monday the world looked on impressed as we steamrollered Bolton to all-but clinch promotion to the top flight for the first time in our 116-year history.

It steamrollered media outlets that had favourably reported on the protests, and prosecuted its own anti-government protesters.

Young Chinese private-equity funds are also coming to Africa.Africans are far from being steamrollered.

It became a presidential contest in which Mr Modi, an energetic campaigner and charismatic speaker, steamrollered rivals.

Thomas Frist says he will immediately end doctor-hospital partnerships (and dismantle existing ones), tone down Columbia's high-pressure marketing tactics and limit the firm's expansion into communities where Columbia has met (and often steamrollered) local opposition.

Another was the refusal of developing countries to be steamrollered.

Thanks to the sound economic fundamentals he inherited, combined with his own natural prudence and powerful intellectual grip, he has easily steamrollered successive Tory shadow chancellors.

Democrats have steamrollered through both chambers their policies of expanding government, increasing spending and swelling our debt.

America's central bank may yet be steamrollered by events, but if it isn't, then its Delphic chairman, Alan Greenspan, will again have triumphed over the Fed's critics, who feared that this year would be payback time for the excesses built up during the long economic boom.In this section A fragile superpower Hangings in the wild west Hick or Hickey?

Some worry that the quest for governance will be steamrollered in the rush to pave it.

But some British consumers resented Sir Terry's "Tescopoly", which steamrollered smaller rivals; others turned away because it skimped on investment in stores.