Sentence examples for pushed matters from inspiring English sources

Anurag Singh (89) and Chris Read (49) pushed matters along as Notts made it with room to spare.

If the ministry pushed matters to an extremity, he wrote, "more blood will be spilled on this occasion than ever before in American history".

Then they pushed matters too far and let the economy go to hell.

But he would be unwise to push matters that far.

When Kennan was operating in the realm of philosophy, he tended to push matters to passionate and abstract conclusions.

There have been times lately when it has struct us that he may be pushing matters a bit too far.

He just feels, he says, there is no sign that humans are pushing matters beyond the natural variability that already exists -- and already must be adapted to.

To push matters along, Antoine exchanges his tiny apartment for a tiny hotel room across the street from the apartment where she lives with her family.

The plan drew a quick and angry response from Damascus, where the official Syrian Arab News Agency quoted a government spokesman as saying the move would "block the way to any inclination or initiative to push matters in the direction of achieving a just and comprehensive peace in the region".

The sit-down of Euro Zone finance ministers had initially bolstered optimism after they pledged to bolster emergency funding capabilities for cash-strapped member states, but a lack of urgency on the part of Germany – the key contributor to any bailout effort – seems to suggest that nothing concrete is to be done until the markets push matters to the brink again.

However, pushing matters deeper, in an argument reinvented by innumerable critics of liberalism, Marx argues that not only is political emancipation insufficient to bring about human emancipation, it is in some sense also a barrier.