Sentence examples for was pushed first from inspiring English sources

The expansion of federal surveillance power was pushed first by President George W. Bush and embraced by President Obama, meaning that this debate, at least so far, has lacked the clear and polarizing partisan intensity that has marked most battles in Washington these days.

The ball boy should have let it go but he was pushed first and then he kicks him.

A button on the key fob starts the car from as far away as 200 feet, but only after the lock button has been pushed first and the start button held down for a full second and a half.

Those rents are pushing first-time buyers to the market, as are historically low mortgage rates.

The original purchase deadline date to be covered for January 1 , 2014was December 15 , 2013 but the deadline was pushed back, first to December 23 , 2013and later to December 24 , 2013

During the second half-hour it was pushed into third place after the Thursday Night Movie began on CBS.

She was on her way to collecting her second gold after posting a world record time of 41.252sec but was pushed into fifth place.

Labour's Imran Hussein was pushed into second place with 25% of the vote, and the Conservatives' Jackie Whiteley was third with 8.4%.

Her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) was pushed into third place behind the Social Democrats and the Greens in Bremen in May for the first time at state level.

Instead, he was pushed into third place, as were other UDF lone-rangers.

In both cases, the party in power was pushed into third place.