ramrodded in a sentence

Examples

1. "If . . . the lawyers feel this is somehow being ramrodded by the court or this is a solicitation by the judges, the meeting Thursday night will be a wonderful opportunity to prove that's not so ."
2. He simply did what amounted to a WP : IAR thing ( tho he didn't call it that-note that the current IAR page is not the way the page stood then ) and ramrodded through what he wanted to do.
3. After one year at Kentucky, Pitino told Willard he was " overqualified " to be an assistant and ramrodded him into the job at Western Kentucky, where in four seasons the Hilltoppers became a perennial 20-victory, NCAA tournament team.
4. Scott Hodge, a senior fellow with Citizens for a Sound Economy, noted that the spending boosts contained in the first three budgets of the GOP-controlled Congress amounted to 16 percent more than the spending increases of the previous three budgets ramrodded by the Democrats.
5. The new style of zydeco, ramrodded by the late Beau Jocque and his Zydeco Hi-Rollers and kept moving by Chris Ardoin, Keith Frank, Rosie Ledet, Lil'Brian Terry and others, has attracted a new generation of zydeco fans and dancers.
6. When a newspaper published a political cartoon portraying railroad tycoon Collis Potter Huntington leading the governor around on a leash, Gage was so incensed by the accusation that he ramrodded a censorship bill through the California State Legislature, restricting the press whenever editorial content involved politics or politicians.
7. One observer called the NSC a " bee hive of activity . " An NSC-chaired group took over arms control responsibilities from a State-chaired group ( SAC / G ) and ramrodded the tough negotiating position favored by ACDA Chief Fred Ikle and Richard Perle of the Defense Department.
8. "This agreement insures that for the first time Mexico's legislature will not be ramrodded by one party, " said Santiago Creel, a deputy-elect from the National Action Party, who was host to the opposition talks at his house in the colonial San Angel district.
9. As for the rest of the realignment plan that commissioner Paul Tagliabue ramrodded through with a unanimous vote, the AFC West's Seattle Seahawks had to make the biggest shift . Seattle was the only team asked to change conferences, but actually the move is a return to the franchise's past.
10. That's just one symptom of the malaise in the Texas Democratic Party that caused several Democrats, ramrodded by former state Sen . Carl Parker ( D-Port Arthur ) to gather last Thursday, Nov . 11, at the Hill Country ranch of one of their biggest patrons, Beaumont trial lawyer Walter Umphrey.