Sentence examples for pushed in the direction from inspiring English sources

He believed that he had been "pushed" in the direction of writing because he had never encountered a rejection slip.

He staggered across the cement track and was pushed in the direction he was required to go.

Drives pushed in the direction of Stillwater Cove will ride the left-to-right slope of the fairway and plummet to the rocky beach below.

Like Bruno Bauer, he considered Hegel an irresolute republican, whose political thought had to be pushed in the direction of popular sovereignty.

Using familiar tactics of repression, manipulation, infiltration, division, vilification, and finally co-option, the Solidarity movement and other sources of opposition were shaped and pushed in the direction of a path compatible with the interests of the communist elite who perceived that their ship was sinking.

In fully mature works like those from the "Rose Briar" series, based on the saga of Sleeping Beauty, the reclining figures are surrounded by coil upon coil of thorny, flowery briar, and nature is frequently pushed in the direction of pure pattern.

Real life was pushing in the direction of progressive solutions.

Sometimes it takes real commitment, as Obama said, to push in the direction of justice.

In his classic 1971 article, Trivers, the biologist, showed how natural selection could push in the direction of true selflessness.

Although deliberate segregation is no longer an issue, demographic trends and white flight to rich suburbs keep pushing in the direction of a de facto segregation of schools.

There is a sense in which networked technologies and financial markets are pushing in the direction of a Trumpian world of the Deal.