"Even today, Google has shown a willingness to push the line when it comes to privacy," Mr. Smith said at one point.
"The former Northern Ireland boss has shown a willingness to push home-grown youngsters into first-team action, a policy that looks like continuing, and has added eight new signings of his own.
Rather than take the easy route by cranking out Iron Man sequels at as rapid-fire a clip as possible, the Marvel slate for the past few years has shown a remarkable willingness to push the brand into new areas, both in terms of characters and content.
Mr Renzi has shown a ruthless streak in pushing aside his party colleague, Enrico Letta, who was picked to serve as prime minister after an inconclusive election less than a year ago.
It also, they say, puts Mr. Bloomberg into a highly contradictory position: he campaigned on the importance of mass transit, has so far honored his pledge to take mass transit to work every day (usually the jampacked Lexington Avenue line) and has shown a willingness to try to push drivers out of their cars and into subways and buses.
As a dominant figure, he has made himself vulnerable to be pushed and has shown a willingness that our issues are worth addressing.
The less you control it, the less dangerous and less mysterious it becomes, and the less people are obsessing it into something darker than it needs to be.' Like LaBute, director Michael Cristofer has shown an unfashionable willingness to push the limits of sex on screen.
"We're already working with a lot of the Jersey States bodies and Jersey Tourism have shown a great willingness to help us push this to a broader audience, in the islands where the athletes are competing from but also to the UK.
Research that has shown that pushing organic foods and raising fear about pesticides causes people in low-income families to eat less fruits and vegetables.
History, says Sophie Grig, "has shown that pushing tribal people into the mainstream robs them of their self-sufficiency and pride and leaves them struggling at the edges of society".
