But unwilling to be muscled aside, private lenders began offering schools and students a variety of benefits like scholarship money and lower interest rates and fees.

Indeed, the might of nations was becoming thoroughly "civilianized," with economic clout muscling aside tanks and thermonuclear weapons.

Every fall, Yates muscled aside opponents on the offensive and defensive lines for the Kauai High football team.

Mr. Ratner, 42, took control of Ratners Group in 1984, when he muscled aside his father, the company's founder.

Have Japan and Germany, with their swollen currencies, muscled aside Uncle Sam?

However, he would not let himself muscled aside, could not allow everything he'd built i to be usurped.

At home, domestically made machine tools, electronics gear and cars - some turned out in factories with foreign owners - are muscling aside imports.

After saying their goodbyes to the crew, Pitt and Giordino muscled aside the stretcher bearers and carried him down the gangway themselves.

But Mr. McGreevey, the Woodbridge mayor, refused to be muscled aside.

But the global consensus-building of Mr. Bush's predecessors so far has been muscled aside by a more barehanded pursuit of American interests.