This pair who now espouse the global rights of women were perfectly prepared to trample over those they thought disposable.
McCoist added: "I'm a big enough boy and have been around Scottish football long enough that the fans and opposition aren't going to open the door and let them trample all over you.
A spokesman from film distributor Revolver retorted defensively, "People were respectful and didn't trample on any old ladies".
"Kazakhstan's courts should be fair and impartial when asked to censor the right to free expression just because an image is offensive to some or causes discomfort," Mihra Rittmann of Human Rights Watch said, adding that: "with this punitive ruling, the court has chosen to trample on free speech in Kazakhstan".
It cannot be beyond the wit of man to give their employees access to contraception without making the employers trample deeply held beliefs by paying directly.
At one point, UNESCO and its partners were paying wardens in banknotes flown from Kenya; but that system broke down.Places where tourism and other economic activities are expanding uncontrollably may also trample on UNESCO's high principles, which seek to preserve the integrity of sites and their surroundings.
And so conflicts go on.What a mature, serious and strong society should learn to do is not to overreact, not to trample civil liberties, not to make the wrong arrests through haste.
Just because some terrorists use clean money from legitimate businesses, says Mr Parker, the government should not trample on people's constitutional rights.
Others made less sense, such as the worry (fanned by many NGOs) that rich countries would use these rules to trample on poor countries' sovereignty.
One writer noted that "You couldn't invent a story so precisely tuned to the outrage frequency of the modern, metropolitan, bien pensant journalist".A striking number of professors were willing to trample all over legal process in their rush to declare the lacrosse players guilty before charge, let along trial.
What is more, the fish scandal comes at a sensitive time, when Europe's governments seem increasingly inclined to trample over commission decisions.
