Sentence examples for try to railroad from inspiring English sources

In the end, the tension was too difficult to resolve, even for McConnell, who employed secrecy, subterfuge, and clock-management to try to railroad any bill he could though the Senate.

To hear Ms. Taylor tell it, Mr. Mottola and Sony's management are trying to railroad Mr. Jackson.

Independents accused Apple of trying to railroad smaller labels into signing licensing deals.

The US government has spent millions, possibly tens of millions, of dollars trying to railroad Haiti's former president.

Players take to Twitter to explain that there is no agreement and that the owners are trying to railroad the process.

Wyden also slammed other members of the US Senate for trying to railroad the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (Cisa) through in response to the hack.

After that game a tetchy Levein criticised a media "furore" over his record and claimed people were trying to "railroad" his plans.

China and India have been accused by some negotiators of trying to water down the long term ambition of the draft climate deal, but its negotiators argued rich countries were trying to railroad them into a deal.

In a letter to the board seeking to delay the vote, several trustees said Polytechnic's administration had still not revealed all the details of the deal and was trying to railroad it through without sufficiently examining alternatives.

"They weren't trying to railroad me at all, though I did often tweak them because of my contempt for the mindless business of pomp and circumstance and money as being a form of ejaculation".

And while civic groups regularly denounce the practice, some of them sounded almost wistful yesterday, complaining that there was so little going on in Albany that officials were not even trying to railroad bills through.