Sentence examples for pushed the mark from inspiring English sources

Between them they pushed the mark by 2,727m in a fascinating contest of style and attitude.

But the Hour moved inexorably onwards, and upwards, to the thin air of Mexico City's Olympic velodrome, where, two days before the 1968 Games opened, Denmark's Ole Ritter pushed the mark towards the 49km barrier that Merckx would smash through four years later.

On Tennessee's third drive of the game, Clausen broke Peyton Manning's school record of 132 passes without an interception and pushed the mark to 143 before Bill Alford picked off a pass in the second quarter.

In becoming the first to officially push the mark past 400 miles an hour, he dethroned a decades-long dynasty of capable British teams.

Jeff Henderson of the US pushed the gold mark up to 8.38m, a distance Rutherford, fourth now, had barely jumped in his career.

He has befriended members of a loose fraternity of shooting gurus and record holders like Gary Boren, the shooting coach for the Dallas Mavericks; Dr. Tom Amberry, who, at age 71 in 1993, made 2,750 consecutive free throws; Ted St. Martin, who pushed the consecutive mark to 5,221 in 1996; and Fred Newman, who once made 20,371 free throws in 24 hours, and 88 in a row blindfolded.

Colbourne was racing the clock rather than the Chinese in the latter stages and, driven on by a raucous crowd, he duly pushed the world mark of 3 53.970 that he had set in qualifying even lower.

Road Runner convertibles with the Hemi or 440 engine in mint condition pushed the $100K mark ten years ago, but the muscle-car market has gone through some wild price fluctuations since.

With Adrian Gonzalez driving in five runs, Greinke was good enough to pitch the Dodgers to a 7-4 victoverover the Mets before a Dodger Stadium crowd of 51,215 that pushed the season attendance mark over the three-million mark.

THE price tags of trophy condominiums around the south end of Central Park have been pushing the $100 million mark lately.

None the less, the sudden emergence of the Floridian means Idowu will have two 21-year-olds pushing the 18m mark to contend with in London next year, presuming the Frenchman Teddy Tamgho recovers from his broken ankle.