Sentence examples for could be pushed around from inspiring English sources

Why did it seem so clear that he could be pushed around?

The team that once could be pushed around by anyone bullied an overmatched opponent, burying Norfolk State, 59-0, afterecord-breakingking second quarter.

And she did not get into adult entertainment, she said, so she could be pushed around by a man like Weinstein "who has never been a sex worker" and doesn't respect the choices she and her fellow performers make.

The gallery also decided that a rope which users were meant to swing from could be retained as a "sculptural element" but not used and that a ball beneath it could be pushed around by visitors but had to be retained within a sandbag perimeter.

They thought Usl could be pushed around.

But in other corners, it created the impression that the new president could be pushed around.

Bulking up would mean the firm could not be pushed around by the big supermarket chains when bargaining over prices, it was thought.

The Pakistanis often seemed to retaliate for losses they had suffered in an accidental attack by United States forces with a deliberate assault on American troops, most probably to maintain morale among their own troops or to make a point to the Americans that they could not be pushed around, said a former American military officer who served in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Still, Fred Hu, a co-director of China's National Center for Economic Research and an economist with close ties to China's leaders, said that the American actions had forced Chinese officials to show their own people that they could not be pushed around easily.

Could the United States be pushed around and compelled to leave, even by a "non-country" like Libya?

"She wasn't very concerned about social justice, but if someone tried to step on her toes, watch out," Mr. Fuller said, recalling a protest his mother organized against putting an airport near his hometown of Chatham, N.J. "She could not stand to be pushed around by those in authority or bullies".