Sentence examples for strike pushed from inspiring English sources

The strike pushed Tesco to move some delivery work to a private-sector operator.

The baseball strike pushed me away from baseball; the Yankees have pulled me back".

Back then, Scargill was the wife of a man who would soon be among the two or three most famous people in the country, but what she did during the strike pushed her conclusively out of his shadow.

Jim O'Brien's first-half strike pushed Tony Mowbray's side three points and five places above the bottom four.

The midfielder came close again early in the second half, his low strike pushed round the post by Langfield.

Brian Graham almost fired the hosts ahead inside the first minute but saw his strike pushed round the post by Scott Fox.

Kurdish peshmerga forces backed by US-led air strikes pushed Islamic State militants out of a large area around Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq, according to Kurdish officials.

According to Army Staff Lieutenant General Sabah al-Fatlawi, quoted by Agence France-Presse, "elite forces" backed by air strikes pushed back a "fierce attack by Isis fighters who then bypassed the city heading towards Baghdad".

Fulham's best chance fell to Rodallega, who shook a post with a spectacular shot, while Seko Fofana and Moussa Dembele both had strikes pushed away by Vito Mannone.

Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr said: "US air strikes pushed Islamic State fighters back, but this is not going to be an easy fight.

As the trip winds to its conclusion, a thunderbolt of political and personal import strikes, pushing the movie to a dramatic crisis.