Words similar to pushing

Example sentences for: pushing

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I love that the drive for tourist-free fun is coming full circle, pushing hipsters back on the beaten path.
And now the country faces what is basically a garden-variety recession, the sort of thing that happens to every economy now and then--except that unlike the United States, or even a similar-sized First World country such as Australia, it cannot try to cushion the slump by lowering interest rates and pushing more money into the system.
(He's pushing his anti-tax messages in tax-free New Hampshire; the anti-porn ad has been airing in conservative South Carolina.)
Since the time of the First Opium War (1839–1842), Western nations had been pushing China to open its doors to foreign trade.
Bennett, who had spent the weekend on Meet the Press and CNN's Late Edition making veiled and not-so-veiled threats to dredge up Paula Jones' sexual history (threats from which he backed off later in the week), was pushing a counterproductive tactic even further.