Sentence examples for mean to push from inspiring English sources

Or did Russia mean to push the envelope with its principal geopolitical rival?

If we do mean to push London eastwards, should we not say so now, and plan infrastructure accordingly?

But the thieves and lowlifes that populate "Brat" (Brother) — an adaptation of the opera by Cantieri Teatrali Koreja from Lecce, Apulia, and Centar Za Kulturu from Smederevo, Serbia — mean to push audience reactions a little further.

The first trial depends on using a rotatable blade in the bottom of the bowl as a mechanical mean to push solid or semisolid materials from the bowl but, real testing of one design revealed poor performance.

Even if you didn't break any rules, it's still a good idea to let a person know that you didn't mean to push their buttons.

"Those purchases were meant to push real rates down and inflation expectations up," he said.

"And that it was meant to push Putin in some direction or another".

Scot Marciel, the American ambassador to Indonesia, said the center "was not necessarily meant to push a particular message".

We'd meant to push the girls toward their limits but not to scare them all that much.

Shtup means to push or to press, but it has also become a way to say fornicate.

"These operations were strategic initiatives of Popcru, meant to push the department in a particular strategic direction," the report says.