1.   But his second term was marred by an economic slowdown and charges that his government trampled on democratic institutions.

2.   Oregon Death With Dignity and other proponents of the law complained the federal government was trampling on a states-rights issue.

3.   Campaigners including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch joined together Friday in an appealing to governments not to trample roughshod over human rights with new anti-terrorism measures.

4.   Singapore leader Goh Chok Tong visited Williams College, over the objections of campus critics and AIDS activists who contend his government tramples on human and social rights.

5.   However, the military commentator for the Israeli daily Haaretz believes the government may yet trample over all the obstacles.

6.   The Cuban-American lawyers have argued that the US government was trampling the rights of the Cuban refugees by forcing them to return to Cuba.