(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.
Shod
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) f Shoe.
(imp. & p. p.) of Shoe
Example Sentences:
(1) By using a rubber shod Bainbridge type vascular clamp during myomectomy, the uterine blood supply coming from the ovarian artery can be interrupted medial to the ovary, allowing for adnexal perfusion.
(2) Competition experiments with unlabeled compounds shod d that the binding was reversible and saturable as well as stereo- and regiospecific.
(3) It is also hypothesized that the known inability of this arch of the shod foot to deflect without failure (foot rigidity) is responsible for the high injury frequency in shod populations.
(4) This sad and dreary episode, when Finnish soldiers were compelled to fight their former comrades-in-arms, is, for example, the subject of Antti Tuuri's bestselling novel of 2012, Rauta-antura (Iron-shod).
(5) Significant differences between the predominance in shod and unshod children were noted in all age groups, most marked in those with generalised ligament laxity.
(6) Keeping Canvas in its current form would be "catastrophic for small-scale services seeking to promote democratic participation and civil society" as the joint venture partners ride rough-shod over the interests of local communities, the company argues in its 70 page submission.
(7) Oh, and having shod the entire fashion industry in her cult skate sneakers, she revealed next season’s must-have flat: a neat, elasticated white ballet slipper, flat or with a small block heel.
(8) Aristotle offers a very simple example of this: "On he came, his feet shod with his – chilblains."
(9) The freshly shod Hamilton moved past Ricciardo and into second place.
(10) A number of reports indicate an extremely low running-related injury frequency in barefoot populations in contrast to reports about shod populations.
(11) Before surgery the animal wanted to rear after exercise and could not stand on 3 legs for any length of time while being shod.
(12) He was my boss – and when, in his anger at my failure to adequately collate the minutes from last week's interdepartmental steering meeting, he stamped his beautifully shod foot (Church's or possibly even Lobb's) on mine … I orgasmed at once, a nerve-shattering orgasm that curled my hair and curdled the low-fat yoghurt drink that was sitting on a nearby desk.
(13) I call on politicians in both Holyrood and Westminster to do all they can to stop employers like Mr Ashley thinking they can ride rough shod over workers rights.” Under European legislation the Insolvency Service will have to pick up the bill for the 50 workers, but it is only obliged to pay eight weeks’ worth of the compensation to which they are entitled.
(14) I’m very glad that this law firm was able to help the workers involved and call on politicians in both Holyrood and Westminster to do all they can to stop employers like Mr Ashley thinking they can ride rough shod over workers rights.” About 80 workers at the Dundonald warehouse lost their jobs when administrators were called into West Coast Capital (USC), a Sports Direct-controlled entity that owned 28 stores in the retailer’s USC chain.
(15) This paper describes the application of foil strain gauges to the hoof wall, and the use of measuring equipment to monitor weightbearing and changes in hoof shape in shod and unshod horses.
(16) To shorten the period of non-activity, working ponies were shod and the hoof wall defect was packed with technovit or a combination of glue with cotton cuttings.
(17) The distribution of force beneath the plantar foot surface during shod distance running, a kinetic descriptor of locomotion not previously reported, was recorded for ten rearfoot striking runners.
(18) Flaubert wished to close the gap not just between words and emotional truths, but between words and things: the sound of Hippolyte's wooden leg in the church ("They heard on the flagstones something like the sharp click of an iron-shod pole tapping them with even strokes"); the lumbering sway of cattle; the scoop of a hand in sugar-white arsenic.
(19) However, significant differences were observed when barefoot and shod walking were compared.
(20) Normal and abnormal feet, both barefoot and shod, were investigated in sixteen subjects.