In his long march across the country, Mr Kabila has trodden on many toes.

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If investors feel trodden on and lack confidence in the markets, aided by lackluster investment performance, they might help him push those reforms through.

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Against all that, rural rage over the flag and the fact that Mr Barnes had trodden on the toes of the state teachers' union seemed unimportant.

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Everyone got its legs kicked or its feet trodden on in the scramble to get out of the carriage that very minute, but no one seemed to mind.

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Bankers and oilmen in Russia can often dictate terms to government, and Mr Vasiliev has trodden squarely on their toes.

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The book has flaws: there is too much on well-trodden events from the distant past, too little on the traumatic weeks after AIG's bail-out, when Goldman came close to death.

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The Italian government thought it was walking on well-trodden ground.

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As if Irish shoes were trodden in cement whilst Crimson Tide feet floated on thin air.

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Vehicles belonging to Mr Trodden's company JTS Civil Engineers have been set alight on four previous occasions.

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