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Example sentences for: pushed

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This controversy is in contrast, the paper reports, to the situation on the West Coast, where high-tech companies like Intel and Hewlett-Packard have pushed for public transportation improvements and measures to protect open space.
During the reign of his son, under a regent, the borders were pushed further north and west, provoking reactions from the Tibetans and Chinese as well as the British East India Company, the power to the south.
Welfare mothers are being pushed into the work force, whence they will stagger home each night lacking the energy for romantic exploration.
But Psychic Friends was stuck with these infomercials which just pushed psychics generally."
This has had some beneficial effects, but in the case of tobacco, it pushed the industry into a settlement it could not control.