Sentence examples for less pushing from inspiring English sources

That makes holding a job a higher priority than holding the line on pay and benefits, much less pushing for improvements, Mr. Masik said.

But, where Orton's humor had been dedicated to kicking down the walls of sexual discrimination, McNally's pre-AIDS romp, eight years later, was more or less pushing at an open door.

ASCENDING to Brazil's high court, much less pushing the institution to assert its independence, long seemed out of reach for Mr. Barbosa, the eldest of eight children raised in Paracatu, an impoverished city in Minas Gerais State, where his father worked as a bricklayer.

In his book, Driving Ambition, Andrew Strauss wrote that the biggest mistake Moores made was failing to realise that "international cricket differs from county cricket in the sense that the players need far less pushing and prodding … Every time they go out there to play, they are playing for their careers.

Households work and save less pushing up the interest rate, which depresses the private capital level and leads to a temporary recession.

There's less pushing and shoving than on public transport in orderly Geneva... Everyone eats meat on skewers.

This doesn't mean that Greece should be pushed around, still less pushed out of the eurozone.

By the late 1980s many American social scientists had concluded that few welfare-to-work programmes did much good and the ones that did more or less pushed benefit recipients into the job market.

More modern style lamps or lamps from different countries will often be easier to switch because they require less force (pushing instead of turning).

Indeed, there is less push than a decade ago.

Finally accepting that Soult would not arrive, Ney could not hope to hold his position, much less push the Austrians back.