Sentence examples for a downward push from inspiring English sources

Thus, a downward push on the crosspiece imparted a rotation to the spindle.

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Agencies have created a downward push on the quality of work available, making it very difficult to accept the terms and conditions offered.

Grumpy shareholders are also exerting a downward push on pay as banks are forced to concentrate on profit rather than revenue.Senior executives at most leading investment banks will agree privately that in the boom years they had their eyes mainly on revenue targets rather than profits or returns on equity.

A transfer of "substantial funds" from Iceland to the UK would have been a significant downward push on the value of the króna, even before the effects of any speculation.

Their short sales may not be placed in the same bear-raid manner — they may be trying to hedge other positions, for example — but the downward push on a stock is the same.

"We are now about two months after Sept. 11," Mr. Gordon said, "and I do not think that we would be talking so soon about dating the start of a recession if it had not been for the extra downward push to the economy from Sept. 11".

I stood on the sand in my wet suit while Nas described a four-step process to get up on the board: toe tips point downward, push up with the hands, thrust the buttocks into the air, and then swing the feet into position.

A flywheel on the spindle kept the motion going, so that the cords rewound in reverse to raise the crosspiece as the drill slowed, and the next downward push brought the spindle into rotation in the opposite direction.

Although such movers can effect motions in the contrary direction to the motion at the head of the causal chain (levers are operated by the downward push of something heavy at the other end), the crucial consideration for Aristotle in this case is that the original, initiating cause of the causal chain should effect the motion according to its nature.

"It's just another downward push for clean energy share prices in the short term".