Sentence examples for pushed high from inspiring English sources

Villa's other three midfielders then went narrow, which meant they now sometimes outnumbered United and they pushed high up the field on the ball-side.

Guardiola wanted as many men in the midfield as possible; a midfield that would be pushed high, seeking where possible to asphyxiate their opponents.

I think we all thought that sport would really get pushed high on the agenda by local authorities and schools, and we've had three or four years of massive world recession and everything else.

"I used to be challenged for what I wear," said Athari, a 19-year-old student wearing heavy makeup and a bright orange headscarf pushed high back on her head in the liberal fashion disapproved of by Islamic radicals.

Brent crude - pushed high recently by supply concerns given events in Libya and the Middle East - has fallen more than 4% on the concerns about a global slowdown, so BP is 17.45p lower at 441.85p.

It was hugely enjoyable one; a fascinating, frantic game in which even the goalkeepers played football and pushed high, attackers as well as defenders, and one that ended with Manuel Neuer beaten three times.

That is the sort of slump that pushed high-street video-rental outfits into oblivion.

It turned out that Fleet had pushed high-risk and costly mortgages in the South.

Falling bond prices pushed high-yield funds to double-digit yields, which might look tempting to some investors now.

But that was about the time broadband began to go mainstream, as the cable companies pushed high-speed service, with the Bell companies soon to follow with D.S.L.

Banks declined to offer small, simple lines of credit to poor and blue-collar customers, leaving them to payday lenders, while they pushed high-limit, high-interest credit cards on everyone and acquired hundreds of billions in subprime debt.