Sentence examples for figures pushing from inspiring English sources

Commodity prices fell back on demand concerns after the US consumer figures, pushing mining groups lower.

Those worries intensified Thursday when the European statistics agency raised its estimate for Greece's debt above the government's most recent figures, pushing the yield on Greek bonds to nearly 9 percent.

After new retail space was included, total food and drink sales crept back into the black for the first time since September, according to the figures, pushing total sales up 1%.

The fighter-bomber pilots — Vietnamese trained in France or the United States, and Americans from an air-commando squadron at Bien Hoa Air Base, just north of the capital — could easily see the sampans and the bunches of tiny figures pushing in a frenzy through the reeds.

In the main gallery a section of the floor has been replaced by sheets of clear glass under which stand thousands of tiny plastic figures pushing upward against the surface, as if both supporting it and trying to prevent it from crushing them.

This year through June 5, coal output in Colorado rose more than in any other major coal-producing state, up 16percentt from the same period in 2003, according to federal energy figures, pushing Colorado from the eighth-largest producing state to the sixth.

The Office for National Statistics said the March figures pushed sales over the year into a decline of 0.5%.

Yiadom-Boakye's figures push themselves into the imagination, as literary characters do.

The new figures pushed up consumption growth for 2002 and 2003, and raised it last year to 3.7% from 3.3%.

The figures pushed New York up into second place for tourist destinations in the United States, bested only by Orlando, Fla., home of Disney World.

The positive earnings figures pushed median gross annual income for full-time employees to £27,600, an increase of 1.6% on the previous year.