Blasting multinationals for insensitivity is hypocritical when Asian officials let local companies ride roughshod over their own populations.

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Or how Ted Turner's CNN news service was going to ride roughshod over local sensitivities and discredit governments?

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Should a Muslim Brother become president, the risk is that the Islamists will then ride roughshod over the rest.

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But the notion that, in power, the former would-be coup leader could simply ride roughshod over economic reality is surely false.

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While the government damns the judiciary as aloof from society, investors have the opposite complaint: that judges ride roughshod over contracts to produce socially benign results.

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Developers say reforms are necessary to boost the industry but opponents fear that relaxing the rules will allow developers to ride roughshod over the country's remaining green spaces.

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They might, for example, undermine the role of the IMF and World Bank, abandon attempts to expand free trade or even just ride roughshod over aid conditions in poor countries.

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"I'm just staggered to be quite honest that the council could be so insensitive and just ride roughshod over local people when there's so much strong feeling about it, " he added.

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He also called for the immediate adoption of a report - due this week - on reducing the power of whips in Parliament, whom he said "ride roughshod over the views of" MPs.

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But this decision is a sign that some judges are beginning to recognize they cannot forever ride roughshod over public opinion -- which in a democracy, after all, is supposed to be the core of legitimacy.

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Neither, however, is entitled to ride roughshod over deliberative legislative processes in a way that threatens to make highly consequential and long-duration alterations in what is, at the moment, one of the government's most indispensable functions: identifying and countering the threat posed by Islamofascist terrorists.

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He said the law would not "ride roughshod" over strong feelings by close family members.

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But this does not mean people can "ride roughshod" over the reputations of others, ruining lives and careers with false allegations, he continued.

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