Sentence examples for first pushed from inspiring English sources
This frontier, mythic or otherwise, first pushed to the west, of course.
They first pushed my daughter off the bus, then me," the girl's mother was quoted as saying.
The Iranians first pushed the Iraqis back across Iran's Kārūn River and then recaptured Khorramshahr in 1982.
I was highly skeptical of the argument that currency crises could arise out of sheer self-fulfilling prophecy — an argument first pushed forcefully by Maury Obstfeld at Berkeley.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the city schools chancellor, Joel I. Klein, first pushed to move more disabled students into mainstream classes in 2003.
But when Mr. Reagan and his supply-side advisers first pushed through a range of tax cuts, they applied their logic to the broad mass of taxpaying workers.
He spoke fervently for perestroika under the first, pushed democratic reform under the second, and has become a voice for traditionalist and anti-Western sentiment under the third.
In the years since Mr. Knapp first pushed for the project, local environmentalists have become far better organized in their opposition.
That idea was first pushed in 2012 and provoked a mass protest by schoolchildren that in many ways was the forerunner of last year's pro-democracy movement.
And a seta will stick to a surface most firmly if it is first pushed into the surface and then pulled along it by a few millionths of a metre.
But they might first push some countries off the ledge.
