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Even in the eighteenth century, a time of assertive central power not to be repeated until the 1950s, colonial expansion was not a steamroller.
The situation had 'matured' and the revolution had to steamroller the forces of reaction.
We instead used the steamroller technique and continued to disregard genuine social needs, public services and citizenship in every meaning of the word.
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Let us vote only for what takes balanced account of the social, economic and legal aspects and not steamroller through narrow ethical boundaries.
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He is steamrollering it through, knowing that it is nonsense.
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Of course, that would not apply to all vehicles, as steamrollers and similar vehicles would still have to be on a time basis.
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By that undemocratic procedure, the measure was steamrollered through.
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We have now been told that we are so short of that precious commodity, time, that our debate has to be steamrollered.
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I am no great friend of comprehensive education where it steamrollers fine grammar schools out of existence.
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I must protest that a series of technical amendments is being steamrollered through.
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Does it mean registering the parish council's opinion or "steamrollering" it.
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By virtue of being moderate and trying to encourage some restraint, we shall be steamrollered.
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Instead, they steamrollered the decision through and imposed it on areas that did not want it.
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We normally understand the word "streamlining" in that context as meaning being steamrollered.
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We should not sit back gently and be steamrollered; we are bigger and more important than that.
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The report has been pro- duced by the "rolling chairmen", and no doubt their proposals could be steamrollered into effect.
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He said that he had not space in the hangars, and he steamrollered the lot.
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To suggest that we have not given time to authorities, that we have steamrollered or are rushing this through is an arrant piece of nonsense.
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Too often planners are steamrollered into developments which exploit cheaper waterside land and result in nothing but slabs of wall facing the waterway.
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I do not believe, however, that teachers will allow themselves to be steamrollered in this fashion.
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He did not say a word to the leaders of the steamrollers who represented him.
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What is most important now is not steamrollering through measures and further debate but the opportunity to take decisons.
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I was initially tempted down the route of steamrollers or even rollercoasters—both in their own ways appropriate.
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In spite of the concerns expressed, we were steamrollered, and civilian courts will be used.
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The fact that he has resisted the temptation to suggest that the other place should be steamrollered reflects great credit on him.
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The small states are steamrollered and bullied by the bigger states.
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Not only residents but business people say that policies that they do not want are being steamrollered through.
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There was a caucus deciding matters, pushing them through the council in a very short time and steamrollering any opposition.
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I am bothered by big businesses steamrollering little businesses.
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They have been steamrollered into a scheme, which in other circumstances they might have looked at twice, on the assurance that they would not lose anything.
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No one will be able to make the charge that the tax was steamrollered through, to the detriment of many thousands of the finest citizens of this country.
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The industry was steamrollered in this matter.
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They are interested only in steamrollering.
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Many things are steamrollered through the courts.
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Our veto was steamrollered out of existence.
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They started the match in scintillating form, steamrollering their way through the first set to take a 1-0 lead.
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On many steamrollers an extension to the body of the smokebox also houses the bearing which supports the front roller.
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We got on top and steamrollered them.
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In opposition, all that one can do—it is what we have been doing for 18 years—is to heckle that steamroller.
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They need to consider the steamroller power of a first-past-the-post majority.
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Here, now, we are standing and looking at the steamroller arithmetic of compound rates.
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When it moves into action, it is rather like a steamroller being used to crush the ants in the strawberry bed.
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All this pales into insignificance alongside the steamroller programme of the nationalised industries, which is operating at an ever-increasing level.
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They think that we should have new voting procedures to steamroller through measures like this.
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To steamroller through the changes without the whole-hearted support of local doctors would be a mixture of folly and foolhardiness.
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They have tried steamroller methods ever since the initiation of the scheme.
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You cannot just steamroller all these schemes without consideration.
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I am particularly concerned that the steamroller approach will obliterate regional varieties and local products.
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I deplore the steamroller effect of pushing through legislation without the normal close scrutiny by the other place.
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He has adopted the role of the rubber stamp, or that of the driver of the big steamroller.
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In two or three days flat, they just roll out their majority and steamroller the legislation through without consultation.
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The steamroller method that we are discussing is unacceptable.
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I do not know whether we could be likened to a steamroller.
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I appreciate that he is not trying to steamroller us.
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The local authority would then be able to stand up to the steamroller.
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Instead, they want to steamroller it through with a guillotine, and will not entertain common-sense discussion.
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To use the power of the majority as a steamroller against the individual is contrary to the whole spirit of our way of life.
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The evidence shows that, even then, the bardic steamroller was inching forward through debates.
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However unreasonable they are, they can stifle criticism and steamroller their proposals through.
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I went in the morning to the depot where the steamroller was stored and attempted to drive it out of the depot.
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Recent history of what, in the event, did happen can be summed up in the one word "steamroller".
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We have seen a parliamentary steamroller driven with great suavity but a remarkable lack of conviction.
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He hectored and lectured and told us that we were seeking to interfere, when he is driving a steamroller over the local authorities.
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If that problem cannot be solved, public opposition will continue to grow and the whole industry will one day be flattened by a steamroller.
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Therefore, one can hardly call this a bureaucratic steamroller, except that it is extremely slow.
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There can be no question of adopting a steamroller approach to this matter.
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A steamroller proceeds slowly but it crushes a lot of things in the course of its progress.
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We have not tried to steamroller the provision in the wake of a directive.
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They have not given us a technical provision; they have given us a steamroller.
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They are now proposing to introduce a guillotine motion to steamroller through important business in a thoroughly disgraceful way.
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We should not talk about a situation where it means the ability of a government to steamroller their views through on an unwilling majority.
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Any process which set out to steamroller the judgment of experienced officers in this matter and go flatly against their experience would probably end in disaster.
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The pace of change, especially when it is a major cultural change of this sort, and the legislative steamroller driving it, is something on which we need some thought.
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They should not be procedures which will steamroller through an unjust result but procedures which allow the judge to receive the maximum help from the prosecution and defence.
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Steamroller tactics are being employed.
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Did the steamroller really exist?
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First, the public inquiry comes at the wrong time for the purposes we are talking about and, secondly, it is using a steamroller to crack a cobnut.
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The purpose behind the tax is simply to lock people into family businesses until the steamroller of the wealth tax can catch up with and squash them into the ground.
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The old steamroller was used every time.
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Any attempt to break the law of supply and demand will result in that law coming along like a steamroller to leave us flat on the highroad to reality.
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Unfortunately for us, the growth of a competing economy is like a mighty steamroller—powerful in its momentum, slow to gather speed and slow to run its course.
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Only if they have neither faith nor confidence in the system which they have introduced to steamroller out of existence our first-class schools can they possibly oppose the new clauses.
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I refer to the people who are washed up on the beach as a result of the steamroller having gone through—now there is a wonderful mixed metaphor!
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I hope that they will resist the temptation to use their huge majority simply to steamroller through every proposal without accepting any changes to the detail.
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I contend that elderly citizens would appear to have few rights, and professionals can steamroller decisions which are made before any consultation process has been reached.
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Four days later, supported by an improvised armor-plated steamroller and aerial support, the attackers tried to take the most remote outpost.
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Using a three-ton construction steamroller, a team of artists and printers print large-scale linoleum carved block prints.
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The figurative sense of the word has ground in mechanics comparable to figurative uses of steamroller or battering ram to mean something overwhelming.
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He was given special wheels with broad tyres to cure this problem, which were soon known as steamroller wheels by the other engines.
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The practice of fixed-income arbitrage in general has been compared to picking up nickels in front of a steamroller.
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He who hinders or hurries the relentless steamroller of history must also be crushed by it, simply because he comes too soon or too late...
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Meanwhile, the officers stop their steamroller at a side road and walk to the parade site, to observe it inconspicuously.
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After the officers have observed the start of the parade, they go back to their own steamroller.
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When they are done, we are shown the colonel and the captain, who have commandeered a steamroller of their own, to mingle into the parade.
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Behind the flattened car, they manage to stop the steamroller.
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In addition to the steamroller printing centerpiece, there are artists, vendors, and organizations presenting an assortment of fine and affordable wares.
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He rode a compact version of a steamroller that could flatten buildings.
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He had problems with staying on the track, so he was fitted with a set of wheels with wide tyres, nicknamed steamroller wheels by the other engines.
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