Sentence examples for pushed us up from inspiring English sources

They pushed us up the stairs, and one of the girls fell".

"They've pushed us up against the wall, and they will benefit as a result of it," she said.

"The Turks gave them [the Muslims] all the best land, pushed us up onto higher ground," he said.

So the case pushes us up against an impossible question.

It is a tiny milestone: today's result might just push us up to 38th place in the international women in parliament ranking.

"You push us up against a wall, we'll push back," said the Rev. William E. Flippin Sr .of Greater Piney Grove Baptist Church in Atlanta.

The thermals push us up, then — as if pulling the table cloth away — the updrafts vanish and we nosedive a little.

Remembering that as with Abe Lincoln in 1860, Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 and John Kennedy in 1960, the spiritual surge that won this election is an inner liberating force pushing us up the arc of human evolution, however bumpy the ride.

If I didn't know better, the rain forest monkeys and birds were pushing us up.

They constantly push us up against friction – not friction that simply frustrates us, but friction that leads to ever-higher levels of talent.

"We [need to] bring the same level of commitment, follow the game plan and bring that one or two percent that are going to get us goals, helps us turn that into points and push us up this table.