steamroller
steamroller
definition
verb
they would have to work together to steamroller the necessary bills past the smaller parties
(of a government or other authority) forcibly pass (a measure) by restricting debate or otherwise overriding opposition.
noun
Then he brought in steamrollers to flatten the rubble like parking lots.
a heavy, slow-moving vehicle with a roller, used to flatten the surfaces of roads during construction.
example
after each truckload of earth fell, a 'steamroller' flattened it
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.
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.
Yat-Kha's music is a hypnotic mix of rock and folk, played on electric guitars and traditional Tuvan instruments, which one critic described as ‘not unlike having a 'steamroller' driven over your head’.
victims of an ideological 'steamroller'
A glance over the port rail revealed a 'steamroller' lying on the seabed at 70m.
I protested, but she ran me over with the efficiency of a 'steamroller' .
Watched by thousands, almost 5,000 weapons were flattened by a 'steamroller' or burnt in a pyre.
If that happens, then the threat of the use of the Parliament Act to 'steamroller' the Bill into law looms large.
The row over fox-hunting is now set to reach a climax as the government has pledged to use the Parliament Act to 'steamroller' a hunting ban into law if the House of Lords rejects the Bill.
I am sure they expected to 'steamroller' through their proposals.
Telling my parents ‘No’ is like talking to a 'steamroller' : they don't listen, and insist on plowing you over or dragging you along whether you like it or not.
It is an institution that encourages the rich and powerful to 'steamroller' aside all opposition, if they can.
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.
I reach behind me and feel my lower back, where it had felt like I'd been run over by a 'steamroller' repeatedly.
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.
Until yesterday morning Jack McConnell was standing in the middle of the road watching a 'steamroller' coming towards him.
The story is a 'steamroller' , flattening everything in order to make its ‘big ironic point’.
Global strategies can 'steamroller' people who have a profound insight in local markets for the grace of outsourcing and other large management techniques.
The ensuing battle stopped the German 'steamroller' and laid the foundation for what would become years of stalemated, bloody trench warfare.
Significantly, the two parties came together in the parliament to 'steamroller' through the legislation creating the three new states.
They simply want to 'steamroller' through developments that have no place in the town.
A lone 'steamroller' trundled along what was supposed to be the car park.
Defeat at Trafalgar ended any hope of maritime supremacy for France, and thus any realistic hope of vanquishing the British, but Napoleon continued to 'steamroller' his continental opponents.
I record the Opposition's gratitude for the role that the Clerk and his office played in holding back the 'steamroller' of the executive.
an attempt to 'steamroller' the country into political reforms
Only with this Labour Council do we have this naked attempt to 'steamroller' through a scheme without proper consultation.
Having failed to 'steamroller' the United Nations Security Council into supporting its invasion, the US has created a tinpot ‘coalition of the willing’ instead.
Yet neither his words nor the progressive education movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s could stop the political 'steamroller' of testing.
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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