Sentence examples for slightly pushed from inspiring English sources

One policeman "slightly" pushed an employee with the butt of a rifle, to encourage him to get out of his chair faster, according to two employees who were present.

Those concerns were reflected by executives at the companies themselves, who released statements on Tuesday warning about the adverse effects of overregulation, and by shareholders, who slightly pushed down the price of both companies' stocks.

Late in the same quarter, Moss made another unbelievable catch as he slightly pushed off cornerback Phillippi Sparks, grabbed a 36-yard pass and stayed in bounds by his tippy-toes for the score.

The strength of the recovery in recent months has increased pressure on the Bank's rates pledge, although America's ongoing partial government shutdown and its decision to delay QE tapering has slightly pushed back the market's expectation for the first UK rate hike.

It's probably a really sound business reason, slightly pushed along faster than it should have been due to sour business dealings between the two companies.

Thus, the overall structural change of protein is minimal except that a flexible α-helical turn around TCL is slightly pushed away due to the presence of the bulky valine group.

Bond prices rose slightly, pushing their yields slightly lower.

You can verify that these are fungus gnats by slightly pushing a potato half, cut side down, into the soil.

The value of 10-year bunds has dropped slightly, pushing up yields on the securities by 0.087 percentage points to 1.26%.

This involves slightly pushing the string (or strings) up or down, and is signified on the notation by an arrow curving upwards towards a symbol.

Amid reports Friday that the European Central Bank was again buying Portuguese and Irish bonds, the price of Portugal's 10-year bonds rebounded slightly, pushing yields down nine-hundredths of a percentage point, to 6.69 percent.