Sentence examples for rather pushed from inspiring English sources

This conflict, the so-called Pig War, did not crush Serbia but rather pushed it into the Russian camp.

That year, organisers rather pushed their luck by leading an elephant across the river below Blackfrairs Bridge.

Lyndon Terracini sings the flashbacks for Rosa, who is rather pushed into a corner by these vocally well-endowed and self-confident women.

And since, in the contemporary world, we have to place in "liberal studies" not only a handful of canonical philosophers but also two thousand years of culture — plus a bunch of new forms not dreamed of in Seneca's philosophy (Polish cinema, hip-hop, conceptual art) — you can understand why many people feel rather pushed for time.

In order to be permissible, there would need to be a content filter before surfacing images since users are not querying a specific type of image and are rather pushed to them.

Then she coached us or, rather, pushed us if we were particularly hard-headed.

If it is affordable, I'd rather push the envelope".

(Public employees' unions apparently would rather push the governor to the wall than agree to furloughs).

(That is probably because such workers would rather push their employers for more hours than for higher pay).

She is someone who rather pushes the boundaries in her acting in order to inhabit the characters she plays.

Boston fans never truly expected their teams to win; we would rather push the idea of success away before we got hurt.