Sentence examples for been allowed to push from inspiring English sources

The Islamists, he felt, had been allowed to push the limits of electioneering: while N.G.O.s had been accused of reliance on foreign funding, no official mention had been made of the money coming from abroad to the Islamists.

She was one of a clutch of non-executive directors ousted from BT by Sir Christopher Bland, when he became chairman in early 2002, to placate investors who were angry that the company's executives had been allowed to push it to the brink of collapse.

Consider that when Hardwicke, who made back more than 10 times her production budget on "Twilight," asked for more time to work on the sequel, she was replaced, while the maker of another wildly profitable fantasy film, "Avatar's" James Cameron, has been allowed to push back the timeline for his sequels repeatedly.

"If they come near our shores, they're allowed to push them out.

Today's interesting question is how far John Manzoni, Whitehall's chief executive, will be allowed to push departments.

It seems unlikely that utilities would be allowed to push up bills rapidly once the price freeze came to an end.

One unpopular idea would be the introduction of uncontested scrums, in which neither side is allowed to push against the other.

Other attractions include a flight simulator, video games and a 5,000-pound 5,000-poundl that floats on water that children are allowed to push around.

When rats are allowed to push a lever in exchange for a mild current that produces a "high" in the "pleasure centers," they will press the lever up to 7,000 times per hour.

But the Fed at the time controlled long-term rates as well as short-term ones, and there was a lot of fear about what would happen if markets were allowed to push long-term rates higher.

Pauley argued that al-Qaida's "bold jujitsu" strategy to marry seventh century ideology with 21st century technology made it imperative that government authorities be allowed to push privacy boundaries.