Sentence examples for pushing upon from inspiring English sources

"One of the things that's important is when you think about what goes into their daily existence, the bad guys that are pushing upon them, saying you will never belong, if you want to be Muslim this is how you can do it.

"As the publishing industry takes fewer risks, originality is visibly dwindling, while major franchises and celebrity biographies are relentlessly pushed upon us," says Ms Sneddon.

It was pushed upon us mainly by people who do not want to support public education, as one can tell from their other public statements.

"I think with feminist thought being pushed upon girls from a young age, that some people put a premium on girls' dominating different areas of life," she said.

By spreading the risks among all doctors, rather than punishing those who are the risk takers, the risk takers would not feel as pushed upon as they do.

As the publishing industry takes less risks, originality is visibly dwindling, while major franchises and celebrity biographies are relentlessly pushed upon us," said Sneddon.

Worse than that, institutions such as the US Congress will, on principle, simply never ratify an agreement that they perceive as having been pushed upon them by other countries.

There is no seeking of a personal privilege in this matter.JAVED JABBARIslamabadSIR The statement that herd privatisation was pushed upon the Mongolians in 1990 by a slew of international aid organisations gets the facts completely backwards ("The nomads' despair", April 29th).

Objects and clothes glow in the sort of neon-bright hues that fashion editors keep vainly trying to push upon their readers but which have a very serious reason to be in this production.

The roots of that discrimination are nourished by a society that considers gender matters an essential detail to be filed, stamped, indexed, and generally pushed upon every individual without exception.

Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader who abandoned his nuclear ambitions to gain favor with the West, was left without a nuclear card to play when regime change was pushed upon him.