"… met with [US monsignor] Fr Michael Osborn of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, offering a chance to push the Vatican on biotech issues, and an opportunity for post to analyse the current state of play on biotech in the Vatican generally," says one cable in 2008.
Hearthstone, Blizzard's digital collectable card game, is offering players the chance to push their luck with the launch of the third set of cards for the game, based on Warcraft's Goblin and Gnome races.
But did he perhaps instead take Newton's mathematical methods as offering the demonstrations needed to push natural philosophy into the domain of demonstrative knowledge and hence scientia?
Some may be uncomfortable with broadcasters offering to use soap power to push the government's agenda – and I'm not sure I'd be as relaxed if soaps started pushing the benefits of Trident – though I would love to see Corrie's Mary Taylor astride a missile in the style of Cher in the If I Could Turn Back Time video.
In recent times, CDNs have started to push into offering Web Application Firewalls (WAF) and bot mitigation.
Hopefully one of the big four goes all out and throws in unlimited data to push their offering over the edge.
But with smartphone roadmaps generally structured around yearly refresh cycles there's a (shrinking) window of opportunity for smaller players to push in offering auxiliary sensing hardware — before our pocket computers get there en masse.
The ambiguity serves the shadow elite well, offering various power brokers ways to push agendas, perhaps anonymously, that are not readily apparent to the public.
Now, with banks proving willing to lend and investors comfortable with riskier bond and loan offerings, such firms are expected to push for bigger deals again, though not as large as the immense leveraged buyouts of three years ago.
