Sentence examples for push the pendulum from inspiring English sources

We've swung towards mass production, but we can push the pendulum back.

It is high time to push the pendulum back a little.

And the recent announcement by Clear Channel Communications, about to go private in an $18.7 billion buyout by Thomas H. Lee Partners and Bain Capital Partners, which will look to sell off 448 of Clear Channel's 1,150 stations, could push the pendulum back again, to a time when DJs exuded a local flavor and educated their audience on the artists whose tunes they played.

And while it might give us a sense of empowerment to step outside of our own skin for a moment, when you push the pendulum too far, empowerment becomes bullying.

But Super Bowl game food may push the pendulum of hysterical, "You will die an early death if you eat that!" back to a more common-sense approach to our food intake.

This means we have a chance to push the pendulum back from viewing public education's main purpose as one of competition among individuals, toward the purpose of readying all our K-12 students for success in post-secondary education so our communities prosper economically, civically and socially.

Then Spielberg pushed the pendulum again.

Fiction pushed the pendulum the other way.

Then Tony Blair - in one of the exhibitions of single-minded determination for which history will remember him - pushed the pendulum as far as it would go in the other direction.

There appears to be a culture amongst the swimmers that seems to have completely pushed the pendulum the other way.

She worries that the excitement about the genetic basis for illness has pushed the pendulum so far away from the crucial environmental factors.