Sentence examples for be pushed before from inspiring English sources

They are all studies in how far the envelope can be pushed before the envelope tears.

I don't remember anyone's ever trying to see how far he could be pushed before he would retaliate.

But calibrating exactly how much Russia can be pushed before it seeks to form such a block is going to be tricky.

While it appears unlikely he will leave (or be pushed) before his contract expires at the end of 2014, new names crop up every day as his replacement.

But they find that often people are pushed before they are properly well.

Then she heard Trayvon being pushed before she lost the phone connection.

"We've maybe pushed it a bit further than the idea has been pushed before.

They were intellectual radicals, willing to push the idea of religious tolerance further than it had ever been pushed before.

It's likely that Mr McCain will experience some blowback if and when a comprehensive immigration-reform proposal is pushed before 2010.

They call it a resignation, but it looks to me as if Cardinal Keith O'Brien was pushed before he could even think of jumping.

"Our goal was to produce a set of action-oriented policy statements that would push some buttons that haven't been pushed before.