| The steamroller would seem to rest too, just sighing little driblets of steam, when the roadmen took their breaks. |
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| Brussels bureaucrats may try to steamroller us into oneness, but people are stubborn. |
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| He called for all MPs to ask the Chancellor to consult small business groups before trying to steamroller through the controversial measures. |
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| The UP government's mischievous attempt to steamroller the Places of Worship Bill is a case in point. |
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| If that happens, then the threat of the use of the Parliament Act to steamroller the Bill into law looms large. |
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| And they used the Parliament Act 1949 to steamroller the legislation onto the statute books. |
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| But he came in here and he was flattened like a bit of bread under a steamroller. |
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| Lyn never actually saw this fight, but she saw Marco the day after, and he would have looked better if a steamroller had crushed him. |
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| There's no point sitting like a hedgehog squeaking in front of an enormous steamroller. |
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| I think the council was trying to steamroller us and gamble that we would not go to the district valuer. |
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| I reach behind me and feel my lower back, where it had felt like I'd been run over by a steamroller repeatedly. |
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| A number of men were working on the road and it is believed the steamroller rolled back dragging Mr Brown underneath. |
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| The roadworkers used machinery such as the steamroller and crusher depicted. |
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| Until yesterday morning Jack McConnell was standing in the middle of the road watching a steamroller coming towards him. |
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| Pro-hunters fear that if peers refuse to back the Commons this time the Government will use the Parliament Acts to steamroller a ban into law. |
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| I record the Opposition's gratitude for the role that the Clerk and his office played in holding back the steamroller of the executive. |
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| Watched by thousands, almost 5,000 weapons were flattened by a steamroller or burnt in a pyre. |
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| Yet neither his words nor the progressive education movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s could stop the political steamroller of testing. |
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| With the democratic steamroller gaining speed, even United Nations officials in Baghdad are increasingly optimistic. |
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| You know then that within an hour of beginning, it will feel like someone's trying to pop open your noggin with a steamroller. |
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| Every person who stands up in protest against the plans makes it that little bit more awkward for the powers-that-be to steamroller ahead. |
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| America is the steamroller of modernity, and its forcing the Europeans to adapt. |
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| But it lingered in his mind that if something arose that they had to steamroller through, I would be the type to resign on principle. |
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| Only with this Labour Council do we have this naked attempt to steamroller through a scheme without proper consultation. |
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| They simply want to steamroller through developments that have no place in the town. |
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| It is an institution that encourages the rich and powerful to steamroller aside all opposition, if they can. |
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| Significantly, the two parties came together in the parliament to steamroller through the legislation creating the three new states. |
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| Vick proceeded to steamroller the board in the manner to which we have by now become accustomed. |
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| He is concerned that Royal Mail intends to steamroller its cost-cutting plans in spite of all opposition. |
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| He was a steamroller at guard, but now he's playing a new position. |
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| It is prepared to push on and roll over things like a steamroller. |
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| The steamroller was now a rusty, immobile, piece of heavy machinery. |
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| 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. |
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| That suggests that DS-UWB will have the market to itself for a few months, but will then succumb to the MBOA steamroller. |
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| In my opinion, we can clearly see the federal government's steamroller tactics, regardless of the party in power. |
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| No matter which one is in power, we have the same centralizing federal government steamroller. |
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| A majority government can start up its steamroller and do as it wants with any bills, arguing that people will have time to forget. |
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| Germany moved in to steamroller its European allies into recognizing their independence. |
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| And yet they saw the steamroller flattening Quebec's areas of jurisdiction one by one, without saying a word. |
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| I myself have a proposal for the government that would replace its steamroller approach. |
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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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| That is why we find it unacceptable for the Minister of Finance to steamroller ahead with a bill for a common securities regulator. |
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| A native of the Anjou region, Sylvain Bourdin studied law before taking over a steamroller company in Angers. |
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| Of course, it's the fault of the Bloc Québécois, but perhaps we should remember how the government has wanted to steamroller democracy. |
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| In essence, this is a reworking of the shadowy Bildeberg Club to impose the steamroller of globalisation and the rules of the new order. |
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| What is happening to the campaigning steamroller that was going to propel the new prophets of technocratic and meritocracy craving Labor into power? |
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| While some fragments of buildings and heaps of distinguishable rubble littered the area, most of the area was flattened as if paved by a steamroller. |
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| A lone steamroller trundled along what was supposed to be the car park. |
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| A lot of people have fought hard to save the schools but the ruling group had made its mind up a long time ago and there was no way we could stop the steamroller. |
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| I protested, but she ran me over with the efficiency of a steamroller. |
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| This is hardly the place to rehearse the errors and elisions in his original article, or the way it allows its thesis like a steamroller to flatten the facts. |
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| Rather than being a preordained victory for a Prussian steamroller, the war was a fascinating and uncertain contest between two rival military systems. |
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| The Tories denounced him as a crazed self-publicist seeking to usurp more senior figures to steamroller the country into signing up to the single currency. |
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| If the Government has to steamroller the ban through using the Parliament Act it will come into force immediately, bringing the prospect of huge protests and rural unrest. |
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| I am sure they expected to steamroller through their proposals. |
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| He wants to steamroller ahead with plans to make people save for their old age, rather than compelling the state or the employer to contribute more. |
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| Global strategies can steamroller people who have a profound insight in local markets for the grace of outsourcing and other large management techniques. |
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| This wouldn't matter if the material were intrinsically funny, and the performances were strong enough to steamroller the audience into acceptance of the authors' premise. |
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| The breach of in camera status came about simply because a member can claim he knows his colleagues will back him up the next day and because the majority will steamroller over the rest of Parliament. |
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| Moreover, the motion that the government wants to impose, to gag us and steamroller through this work, in secret and at night, is totally unacceptable and undemocratic. |
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| Parliament, in its perennial quest to go one step further and faster than the Commission and the Council, has wheeled out its regulating steamroller and wants to put all the networks in one basket. |
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| Some people tell us that Mrs Fourtou has achieved a wonderful compromise and others tell us that the big political groups have behaved like a kind of steamroller. |
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| 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. |
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| This throne speech just shows the right-wing Conservative steamroller still barrelling along in the same direction and in the same spirit we saw at their convention in Winnipeg. |
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| The unanimous position of Quebeckers is defended in this House by the Bloc Québécois, which is calling on the House of Commons here today to force the Conservative government to stop its steamroller tactics. |
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| It appears to be a wonderful opportunity for opening up exchange, but also a potential steamroller that uniforms, homogenizes, and wipes out the ruggedness of the artistic and cultural landscape. |
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| 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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| Bill C-13 is a steamroller condemning everybody to a forced uniformization, which might in turn jeopardize the environmental assessment process in Quebec and needlessly bring into question all our efforts in this area. |
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| This time we will be vigilant, and we are saying that, through its amendments, the federal government is still trying to reinforce its role and steamroller ahead with centralization. |
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| With a catch and drive opportunity, Bees' maul stalled only for Matt Reeves to break off and steamroller Paul Unsell to score. |
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| This time, the IRM team sought out a piece of road-building equipment known as a steamroller. |
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| 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. |
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| A FARMER used his 80-yearold steamroller to repair a road full of potholes. |
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| Albrighton does roll about as if he's been hit by a steamroller, but it was a sending off. |
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| We've got a fairground, two steam organs, steamroller and some vintage cars. |
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| It was like a steamroller and we scored two very good goals. |
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