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- verb Present participle of
ram .
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Examples
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Amnesty is one of the few issues that the power elite will never succeed in ramming thru.
Wonk Room » Condoleezza Rice Breaks With Right Wing And Says We Should Be For ‘Welcoming’ Immigrants 2009
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Tell them how great Obama is, and what a great job he and Pelosi did in ramming this legislation through and down our throats.
Think Progress » Lieberman Gets A Chuckle Out Of Peddling Far-Right Nuke Myth 2010
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I can’t imagine a better time to begin ramming through recess appointments and flexing the Unitary Executive muscle.
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“I certainly was abhorrent of the idea of ramming this piece of legislation through by that mechanism.”
Daschle Pick A Clear Sign That Obama Will Attempt Ambitious Health Care Reform 2009
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Which is so almost ramming, which is so almost what went on here.
German Supermarket: Crop Marks? What Crop Marks? Cosmo7 2009
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You ` ve got airlines and travel industry lobbyists who are so smitten with the idea of ramming as many foreign tourists into the country as possible despite knowing that we have no way of tracking these people to make sure they go back when they ` re supposed to go back.
Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores 2002
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Callines leapt, his blunt sword ramming into the man's groin, and the warrior fell to the earth with a groan.
Lion Of Macedon Gemmell, David 1990
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Annoyingly, the Critical Care was at the bottom of this mug, requiring a little bit of inginuity from Irwin here - namely ramming his paw in and jiggling about a bit.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Huffington Post UK 2012
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The state listened and looked into two techniques: pipe-jacking, or using brute force to push the culverts into place under the road, and pipe-ramming, which is essentially a sideways pile driver.
Kitsap Sun Stories Brynn Grimley 2010
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And this guy Fristy, the genius Doctor who incorrectly diagnosed Schiavo for America (even though he never saw her in person and is not a neurologist) has made, of all things, legislation to ban Internet gambling one of his top three priorities this session (he has been frantically trying to attach it to other legislation since he is having trouble getting it to the floor because the idea of ramming this home in the midst of far greater crises facing our Nation is so dumb).
Think Progress » President Bush “has been more respectful of civil liberties 2006
sarra commented on the word ramming
See stimulus package. Yes.
February 27, 2009