trample underfoot

Then, as in the days of Mahomet's successors nine hundred years before, they proceeded to look about for fresh worlds to conquer, when the Crescent should trample underfoot the Cross.

I therefore protest, with deep indignation, in the name of humanity and the rights of men, which you will trample underfoot.

That is the word which permits no false meaning; the path from which we cannot deviate an inch; the object from which we dare not turn our eyes, even though we trample underfoot the bodies of our dearest friends.

Here people despise God, they adore money, they trample underfoot both human laws and divine law.

The crackdown is supposed to wipe out the black market, but it may well trample underfoot the first fragile growth of free enterprise.