Sentence examples for attempts to push them from inspiring English sources

They try to protect themselves from others' attempts to push them away.

Rebel leaders, however, had resisted earlier attempts to push them back, declaring that they wanted a guarantee of amnesty.

Democratic votes will be needed in the Senate, but Democrats have not committed to supporting her priorities, nor have House Republicans, many of whom oppose the health bills and Collins's attempts to push them into law over their objections.

Americans are strongly opposed to a preventive war against Iran, and are likely to resent a brazen attempt to push them into fighting one at Israel's behest.

Backers of former president Mohamed Nasheed's Maldivian Democratic party blocked roads leading to parliament and clashed with police, who attempted to push them aside with their shields.

School officials said they believed the zoning board's actions were little more than an attempt to push them out of the area.

Betsy Dillner, director of campaign group Generation Rent, says: "Because of the housing shortage, landlords are already charging the highest rents they can get away with, so the market won't bear any attempt to push them up any further".

Another option for Telefónica could be to bid for TIM Brasil, a mobile firm owned by Telecom Italia, and add it to Vivo.However bitterly the Portuguese resent the attempt to push them out of Brazil, resolving ownership of Vivo is just one episode in a far more important battle that between Telefónica and América Móvil right across Latin America.

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi is also due to hold talks with the warring parties, in an attempt to push them to agree to a cessation of hostilities.

And outrage is precisely what we ought to feel at this cruel attempt to push them back into want's dark shadow.

There, it separated from its sister companies and was attached to the US 3rd Infantry Division near the Imjin River, where the division was engaged in an intense battle with Chinese forces, attempting to push them further north.