Unfortunately it turns out that there's no comprehensive social science research on whether pushing regimes to democratize or respect human rights actually works.
He reveled in the role of attack dog, whether pushing hard to the left on health care, or denouncing military aid to Saudi Arabia.
Indeed, when most deans step down from their jobs — whether pushed, bribed, exhausted or fired outright — they never make news beyond the local campus paper.
Whether pushed by educators or legislators, the efforts are motivated by a sense that higher education has been gliding too much on reputation.
So the question is whether pushing a white man off the bridge to save 100 people of African descent or pushing a black man off the bridge to save 100 people of European descent should produce different responses.
Washington has spent millions of your tax dollars so this agency can study things like whether pushing on someone's head can cause them to lose weight, or whether magnets are effective at relieving pain.
But the question facing German officials today is whether pushing those ideas underground makes them more radical in the short term, and maybe even more attractive in the long run, precisely because they are forbidden.
Researchers have also raised concerns about whether pushing the drugs on patients raises the possibility that they will stop and start therapy, helping the virus become resistant to medication.
Whether pushing the camera close to the drag artists or zooming in from afar to survey them intimately, Simon captures the lavish life of theatrical imagination that inspires them and makes gender itself seem like an aspect of urgent performance.
He is ruthlessly single-minded about getting what he wants, musically speaking, whether pushing his Mariinsky Theatre forces to the limits of their stamina with their concert and touring schedule, or producing incendiary performances with the London Symphony Orchestra.
