Sentence examples for managed to push back from inspiring English sources

They continue pushing but we have managed to push back, so it's suggested books, not requirements.

A combined force of government troops and hastily recruited militiamen has managed to push back the insurgents to Gor Tepa, some 12 miles from Kunduz city, and liberated occupied villages and hamlets including Talawka and Dam Shakh.

Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu was hailed in the West because he managed to push back the Soviets, but he built such a brutal cult of personality and such a foreign debt that he ended up the only leader to be executed.

Thanks to a cadre of local activists, the town has managed to push back against the mega-developers and sustain something that feels, smells and tastes like the real Mexico.

In western Slavonia, the HV managed to push back the JNA at several points, and secure Papuk Mountain in early December in Operation Otkos 10.

Saleh said there were currently major concerns in the opposition about the battle for control of the central city of Homs, but he claimed rebel fighters were still managing to push back Assad's forces in the city.

It's not often that a put-upon porcine protagonist finds a pretty new pal and manages to push back against the perils of pollution.

Unreasonably macho soldiers engaging in battle after horrific battle to fight off the alien invasion and somehow managing to push back the untold horrors of other worlds.

I've managed to push it back and retain my place by just accepting that I'm a photographer".

After the police had stomped another 20 yards up the road, a raging column of protesters managed to push them back by throwing sticks and stones at them.

On 20 22 September, the VRS 5th Kozara and 6th Sanska brigades managed to push OG Centre back approximately 6 km, while parts of OG North had to withdraw from some areas they had captured.