Sentence examples for pushed into a position from inspiring English sources

"We will not be pushed into a position because there is a crisis," she said.

Cockell said, "We are being pushed into a position where either things will fail or the system has to change … we can't cope unless someone takes that big step … to change the way we operate".

But South Africa's president will not be pushed into a position he opposes, especially not by westerners, the media, the UN or activists.Ultimately, then, the most effective pressure will come from within his own party.

We hear the play again and again over the PA; new things strike us, we wonder if Shakespeare understood how it feels to be pushed into a position that seems peripheral.

"It's very frustrating that we've been pushed into a position where we've got an engine which is quite a long way behind, with all sorts of failings, and with no obvious light at the end of the tunnel," he says.

To allow itself to be pushed into a position where it can be represented as in some way a successor to the savage dictatorships of the past was a serious miscalculation.

At one stage, he told the jury, he was pushed into a praying position and asked "where is your God now... pray to him".

Notwithstanding Ken Bates' tinpot posturing - "If we do not go about our normal business the terrorists will have won"... "I will be leading from the front"... "If I had to choose between the Israelis and Tony Blair to protect me, Israel wins every time" - Chelsea are being pushed into a ridiculous position by Uefa's stubborness.

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The Local Government Association said its members "have been pushed into an impossible position by the government's cut in funding for council tax support.

So given the backlash against "Merkozy," as the combination of Ms. Merkel and Mr. Sarkozy is called, Ms. Merkel may even be helped by being "pushed" into a more accommodating position.