What's the difference between domineering and roughshod?
Domineering
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Domineer
(a.) Ruling arrogantly; overbearing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Variables included an ego-delay measure obtained from temporal estimations, perceptions of temporal dominance and relatedness obtained from Cottle's Circles Test, Ss' ages, and a measure of long-term posthospital adjustment.
(2) Brilliant, old-fashioned speech, from the days before teleprompters became all-dominant.
(3) In some experiments heart rate and minute ventilation (central vactors) appear to be the dominant cues for rated perceived exertion, while in others, local factors such as blood lactate concentration and muscular discomfort seem to be the prominent cues.
(4) Until recently, the control was thought to be governed by single, dominant genes, located within the I region of the H-2 complex.
(5) In a control study an inert stereoisomer, d-propranolol, did not block the ocular dominance shift.
(6) Pedigree studies have suggested that there may be an inherited predisposition to many apparently nonfamilial colorectal cancers and a genetic model of tumorigenesis in common colorectal cancer has been proposed that includes the activation of dominantly acting oncogenes and the inactivation of growth suppressor genes.
(7) The dilemmas faced by the genetic counsellor are discussed in this variable autosomal dominant condition.
(8) Dominic Fifield Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ravel Morrison, who has been on loan at QPR, may be set for a return to Loftus Road.
(9) Simple cells that are nearly equally dominated by each eye always exhibit strong phase-specific interaction.
(10) Right hemisphere inactivation caused a decrease in the frequency of lateral hypothalamus self-stimulation, whereas with left hemisphere inactivation it increased, which testifies to right hemisphere dominance in self-stimulation reaction.
(11) The association of these defects of teeth and bone was found to be transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait over four generations.
(12) Tumorigenesis is a multistep process involving mutations of dominantly acting proto-oncogenes and mutations and loss-of-function mutations of tumor suppressor genes.
(13) In-vivo data are limited primarily to dominant lethal studies in rats and some in-vivo alkaline elution results.
(14) A more accurate fit of T1 data using a modified Lipari and Szabo approach indicates that internal fast motions dominate the T1 relaxation in glycogen.
(15) Here's Dominic's full story: US unemployment rate drops to lowest level in six years as 288,000 jobs added Michael McKee (@mckonomy) BNP economists say jobless rate would have been 6.8% if not for drop in participation rate May 2, 2014 2.20pm BST ING's Rob Carnell is also struck by the "extraordinary weakness" of US wage growth .
(16) Both types of oral cleft, cleft palate (CP) and cleft lip with or without CP (CLP), segregate in these families together with lower lip pits or fistulae in an autosomal dominant mode with high penetrance estimated to be K = .89 and .99 by different methods.
(17) Four fractions enriched, respectively, in plasma membrane (PM), smooth endoplasmic reticulum (SER), rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER), and mitochondria were isolated from estrogen-dominated rat myometrium.
(18) The effect of the mutation for white belly spot controlled by the dominant gene W on spermatogenesis in mice was examined by experimental cryptorchidism and its surgical reversal.
(19) The controversy about "fasting girls" and the all-dominating diagnosis of neurasthenia may explain the delay in the American interest in the new disorder.
(20) Normally, the small longitudinal (arterioles to venules) gradient of microvascular and perimicrovascular pressures is not a major concern, but in nonuniform disease processes, such as microembolism, longitudinal inhomogeneity, and parallel inhomogeneity are dominant.
Roughshod
Definition:
(a.) Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is only when the British government stops riding roughshod over the fundamental rights of Afghan civilians that it can ever hope to begin to meet its stated goal of strengthening the rule of law and building a fair system of justice in Afghanistan .
(2) Is the hospital riding roughshod over the family's feelings?
(3) But, after riding roughshod over the gentlemanly world of advertising to build WPP, he still sees himself as an outsider and defends his pay as aggressively as he makes his deals.
(4) To ride roughshod over these powerful feelings is to make a cardinal mistake.
(5) World Bank lending: how the organisation rode roughshod over its own rules – interactive Read more The bank has said its goals are to end extreme poverty and reduce income inequality worldwide.
(6) The government is so desperate to be seen to be doing something, anything, to appease the countryside lobby, that it is willing to ride roughshod over facts, science, and the wildlife that belongs to each and every one of us lucky enough to live in Britain.
(7) Wulff can either decide to sign the law, thus riding roughshod over the opposition, or take the more constitutional route and let it go through the upper house of parliament, the Bundesrat, which is unlikely to pass it.
(8) From rail fares to welfare, local authorities find themselves frustrated by the impact of quangos at times riding roughshod over the interests of local people."
(9) ITN, which produces news programmes for ITV and Channel 4, said that despite the drive to swiftly identify looters the government cannot run roughshod over standard legal practice.
(10) Lehrer was accused of allowing the candidates to ride roughshod over the debate's rules, failing to enforce time limits that had been agreed upon beforehand and generally letting the entire discussion drift off topic and failing to impose himself on either Barack Obama or Mitt Romney.
(11) Internet surveillance by the NSA has shamefully expanded exponentially under Obama, and despite his 2008 campaign promises to rein in the agency’s power, time and again he has let the NSA run roughshod over the privacy of the world’s citizens.
(12) He feels that the television companies ride roughshod over the game's authorities to dictate kick-off times to suit them, with no regard for the clubs' requirements.
(13) Sir Alex Ferguson's refusal to speak to the BBC for seven years was the most obvious example of the extent to which some clubs rode roughshod over the existing rules, although he eventually resolved his row with the broadcaster after the intervention of the then director general, Mark Thompson.
(14) It's because those upstanding Americans who cheered as Barack Obama's predecessor rode roughshod over the constitution in his war on terror have found a new enthusiasm for a strict adherence to the US's supreme law.
(15) The international community has to understand that in an increasingly interrelated world, critical problems recognise no borders and ride roughshod over sovereignty.
(16) The government wants all creditors to be protected but the government created PPF is riding roughshod over small independent creditors.” The administrators told the creditors that they may get more than 3p in the pound if Green agrees a deal with the Pensions Regulator to make a cash injection into the BHS pension scheme.
(17) Whatever else might be said of the Kremlin’s information strategy, it is undoubtedly in tune with the zeitgeist: one that is also visible in America and Britain, where what Stephen Colbert memorably called “truthiness” can run roughshod over fact-based discourse.
(18) Home Office minister Lord Taylor of Holbeach accused the Liberal Democrats of disingenuous opportunism and riding roughshod over advice of parliamentary clerks.
(19) On the other hand, the White House is calculating that were the Republicans to sustain their obstructionism and refuse even to look at as non-partisan a figure as Merrick Garland, it would expose them to the accusation that they have run roughshod over the US constitution in the cause of party politics.
(20) There can be no doubt that the instinct of the home secretary would have been to reintroduce the “snooper’s charter” as quickly as possible after the election, but Theresa May was unable to do so because that would have ridden roughshod over Anderson’s report.