ramrodded in a sentence

Examples

1. To prevent the Japanese from regaining the initiative, King ramrodded the idea of an immediate American counterattack through the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
2. While he has ramrodded his teams into the playoffs in each of his four years as head man, Cowher has heard hardly a discouraging word.
3. State and federal investigators subsequently said the official who ramrodded the five-year deal, former prisons director James A . " Andy"
4. Bush's hand-picked commission chairman, David Laney of Dallas, dismissed objections from Wynne and ramrodded approval of the toll road in March 1996.
5. In a life studded with public and private achievements, Goldwater took his greatest pride in a wide ranging military reorganization bill he ramrodded through the Senate in May 1986.
6. The documents came from the files of Deputy Chief of Staff Harold Ickes, who ramrodded much of the president's re-election effort from inside the White House.
7. In less than a week, then-Gov . Roy Barnes, a Democrat, ramrodded a new flag through the Legislature that reduced the Confederate emblem to a small insignia.
8. The centerpiece of the U . S .-Mexican economic relationship is the controversial North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, which Clinton ramrodded through a reluctant Congress in 1993.
9. But U . S . House Speaker Newt Gingrich has criticized the program as " coerced volunteerism " and ramrodded a $ 210 million budget cut through the House earlier this year.
10. They have been swollen by grossly excessive tax cuts _ most heavily benefiting wealthy people who need them the least _ that were incessantly championed by Bush and ramrodded through a Republican-dominated Congress.