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

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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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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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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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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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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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