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The warden pounced after firemen pushed the car to the side of a busy dual carriageway to allow traffic to flow freely.
She pushed up her sleeve to reveal a bandage on her arm where the first spearhead grazed her skin.
He pushed three greasy, black-nailed fingers up the sleeve of his overall and indifferently scratched his arm.
He dug his hands deeper into his pockets and pushed his house keys into his palm between the thumb and his finger.
When he teased me, but in a way that didn't deserve a truly biting retort, I pushed his chest lightly, or dug a finger into his waist.
I dug my heels in, leaned forward, and shoved off with my legs at the same time I pushed out hard with my arms.
He pushed my foot hard, and I screamed, digging my fingernails into his arm.
Ryan pushed his hands deeper into his pocket, digging his nails in his palms to assure himself he was awake.
I narrowed my eyes and pushed the trolley past her, making sure to elbow her as I went past.
The second his back was on me, I elbowed him hard and pushed him towards the other guy, who had slowly stood up.
Fox nodded his way and Travis pushed the button that sent electric shocks through Brandon's body.
I pushed the drapes aside as I stepped back into the dim room and stood for a second, blinking.
I pushed the throttle forward simultaneously releasing the groaning brakes.
The boy looks over the valley, across the playing field where he and his brother pushed each other on the rusted, groaning merry go round.
She pushed past him into the elevator, and pressed the button for level twelve.
The hook is pushed into the groundbait leaving the hookbait of two mini-boilies standing proud.
Laval was a tough negotiator and manipulator, an activist in diplomacy in which he pushed at the frontiers of constraint.
He practically growled it and the next thing I knew I was pushed up against the wall and he kissed me.
In direct contrast, feminist accounts have pushed Shajara into the limelight at the cost of the events themselves.
The inference that his disapproving father pushed him away from home is clear.
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He pushed her chair in and kissed the top of her tangled and disarrayed hair.
With Phil Berry, our mountaineering guide, I pushed up to the top of the pass by noon.
She gently pushed his hand down on the knife, guiding it through the motions.
Big box stores, online discounters and catalog specialists have pushed out nearly all of the stand-alone hi-fi shops.
It also conjures up memories of the gunboat diplomacy that first pushed the United States onto the world stage a century ago.
Before you can even begin to get your bearings, you are pulled from the car and pushed down an alleyway at gunpoint.
He pushed the pram straight, his little baby boy inside, gurgling at the world.
The men released the wheels on the gurney and pushed me up a ramp and into the ambulance.
After disengaging the designated drives, Kelsey gently pushed the power connectors back in.
He has trouble disengaging from blockers and sometimes gets pushed off the line of scrimmage.
But the repudiation of a dollar devaluation policy was subsequently pushed to an opposite extreme, thereby fostering a new set of disequilibria.
War also clearly disrupted and dislocated international economic relations and pushed national economies away from specialization.
At the end of the hallway I was pushed through a large metal door engraved with pictures.
Jamie disregarded Dougal with a shrug and pushed on the golden rod to the door.
Using the keyboard on his lap, he typed a few lines and pushed the enter key.
Reports in the Hong Kong business press say many enterprises are being pushed to the wall.
He was in dungarees and loafers and wore a gray sweatshirt with the sleeves pushed up that had NAVY emblazoned across the front.
Thrust hoes or scuffle hoes or Dutch hoes, to be pushed instead of being pulled, have not been so popular.
The world's only two-legged equestrian statue has been pushed and pulled almost off its plinth.
I pushed myself up and dodged a sudden flurry to my right, just in time to avoid someone else's arms.
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Having been pushed so far back as to be deprived of his place in the company's executive suite, he vowed to return to his entrepreneurial roots.
A few women have pushed their way into the boardrooms and executive suites of big companies.
She pushed a button, and a large flight of stairs descended from the ship to the ground.
So in the last seven years, doomsday has been pushed back at least 13 years.
She didn't even turn her head as the doorknob turned and the door was pushed open.
She pushed him toward the front door, but he clutched at the doorsill and dug in his heels, determined to have the last word.
I took this person's behavior and pushed it to the furthest extreme I could.
Externally, we are being pushed by those who believe in hegemony, bias, and double standards.
This, in turn, has pushed CAD both upstream and downstream in the production process.
This left publicans to take the heat after the brewers pushed up the price of draught beer.
During the six days that followed, these American climbers would be pushed to limits they never dreamed possible.
The indiscriminate use of the pond water by residents in the area has pushed it to the verge of dryness.
He pushed off from the ground and let the water pull him back towards dry land.
One of the skinnier guys pushed him right over with a hit to his stomach, and immediately joined his buddies in beating Dmitri to a pulp.
Now you need to keep the liquid under pressure so that liquid pushed the metal against the punch.
Today they pushed through the special-interest bankruptcy bill, punishing the very poorest members of society.
The Americans pushed for peace, and Garang fell to the task with purposive will.
The boy who had pushed Jaime earlier was now walking with Gwion, gesturing wildly as his voice rose to new heights.
Lora, who was well under four feet tall, easily pushed the larger boy away and slipped into the room without a sound.
He felt sunshine on his face, but it was quickly torn away from him as a sack was ruthlessly shoved onto his head and he was pushed away.
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The winds pressed against my back and forced me upright, pushed me toward the side yard, then into the front.
Ryo stood to walk out of the house, but Kunshi moved toward him and pushed him back into a seat.
In one case the workers were pushed away by federal and military police squads.
With his leg Marcus pushed one of the boys off of him and then he took his arm and hit the other boy.
She drew close to him and pushed herself against his body, wrapping her arms around him.
I pushed his nearly limp body up to a sitting position and got up from the couch.
She pushed herself against his body, against his chest where there was no heartbeat.
After a moment or two to focus his effort, he pushed himself away from the wall.
James grinned and pushed himself from his position with the muscles in his back.
So he pushed himself in an effort to get better every day, so he could start and be prepared for that first game.
How is hands slowly would grip my hips as we pushed our ever decaying bodies closer to each other as the night died young.
Ally took the keys and pushed the unlock button on the keyless entry remote.
Her male colleague approached and took hold of the defendant's arm but was hit in the arm and the other officer was pushed away, she said.
Mark jumped aside as Grace pushed past him and made a watch out kind of whistle.
Forward ranks pushed back, darting past the elite guards at their backs as they fled for their own lines.
She waited for her receipt and then I wished her a good day as she pushed her cart toward the exit.
He motioned for me to stay, then walked forward, pushed past his father and stepped into the study.
With more and more force, he pushed aside anyone that stood in his way, with his hands and soon with his blade.
As the Union army pushed into the South, a young soldier from the south, but committed to the Union cause, was assigned guard duty.
In 1941 Germany pushed deep into Soviet territory, when the Soviet air-force hit back.
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With the enemy reception proving nothing like they had anticipated, troops pushed inland.
In the late autumn of 1950, UN forces pushed forward up the peninsula towards the Chinese border.
It was now October 1917 and the Allied advance pushed towards a feature known as Broodseinde Ridge.
Gaede's Army Detachment pushed forward into the French lines near Obersept on the 13th of February.
As the Elf army pushed forward, a sea of blood, bodies and gore was left behind.
Significantly, she left her job as a schools coach amid allegations that she pushed the kids too hard.
Although she didn't do anything sporty, she always wants to do her job well and she pushed us quite hard to get the potential out of us.
Michael's father was a military man with a strong sense of order, and he pushed his sons hard in athletics.
On the subject of fitness, Black rejected Dawson's claims that Henry had pushed the players too hard.
Do you think the government is trying to push voters even harder than it's pushed them already?
He thinks Sindi pushed Stuart into accepting and that he only said yes because he doesn't really trust her.
Global sales have pushed Hyundai to seventh place, ahead of both Honda and Nissan.
Public sympathy pushed the Sorbonne to promote her to her dead husband's professorship.
The Allied forces co-ordinated a major push from the spring and, in April, the British pushed forward in the battle of Arras.
Those girls pushed their luck though when they suggested we might feel more comfortable someplace quieter.
Nobody is pushing us around or has ever pushed us around on West Indian wickets.
All those years he made fun of me, bullied me, pushed me around, I think that it was his cry for help.
I myself hate getting on the train and always stand at the back as I watch people get pushed in front of and people darting in-between people.
She then pushed in front of me in the queue, demanded a discount and got it.
The woman pushed in front of her daughter until she was face to face with Isabelle.
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Two gunmen were arrested and, as heavy fire could still be heard ahead, Major Hollister pushed on with just two of his men.
The pair pushed on first to Lion-sur-Mer, then Hermanville-sur-Mer, before they set up their station in Caen.
Surely a chicane system should be considered before the proposed measures are pushed through.
Indeed, these laws have been pushed through as silently and quickly as possible precisely so as to avoid such a discussion.
Those pushpins have to be pushed from one side of the receiver out the other.
He pushed the envelope of possibility with his art, but pushes the boundaries of acceptable conduct as well.
In our case, people were pushed into economy class and executive class was totally empty.
The fight featured almost as much wrestling as boxing as the two men grappled and pushed, especially in the first few rounds.
The basket strainer should be packed with plumber's putty and pushed firmly down into place.
Carly pushed past nervous guests and equally edgy guards then stopped and stared.
Alberto often pushed a shopping cart through his barrio, collecting cans for spare cash to support himself and his mayate.
Logan pushed his way through the crowd, elbowing people left and right.
Immediately she was pushed away and the ground would have cushion her fall except that would have hurt, but she was cushion by a warm body instead.
They pushed their way past the barricade and found Zimmerman, who appeared by that point to have shed his aggression.
He dug his hands into his pockets, pushed himself off the wall.
This distinction should not simply be pushed aside without an attempt to diagnose and exorcize some of the lingering cultural stereotypes within it.
As their music spoke of futurism and electronics, their tinny little keyboards were being pushed to the limits of technology and cracking under the strain.
I pushed the handle down and gave a gentle push upon the door.
This great healing event for veterans has been pushed aside by a few ATV advocates insistent on illegally riding their silly toys.
Low interest rates and expansionary policies seem to have pushed the US economy forward and we are seeing very strong figures being reported there.
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Rira managed to get in front of me and pushed the girl out of the way.
The tradition ended abruptly when he pushed his luck too far and alienated the avowedly nationalist group by telling them that they must support the principles of unionism.
Magnus pushed himself to his feet, grimacing as he put a hand to his head.
Embarassedly Kris pushed the older boy away, and tried to hide his blush.
Guy Molinari, a former Staten Island borough president, pushed back against that view.
His opponents are up against the bizarre logic that pushed the crack-smoking Toronto mayor to ascend and survive.
Through the Civil War, Sumner and Wilson strongly supported the military, and pushed President Abraham Lincoln to emancipate and enfranchise the slaves.
His brown eyes lingered on her body, as she pushed herself against him.
Secondly, U.S. Secretary of State Kerry has recently pushed the Arab League towards flexing its intransigent position on borders.
Before antibiotics, most newborn eyes were treated with an antiseptic, and Barnes pushed Argyrol as the cure of choice.
Maura pushed her around, Dinah had pushed her around, Chase pushed her around, everyone pushed her around, but Piper was going to stand up her decision this time.
The door creaked and groaned in protest as she slowly pushed it open.
For a large fee, you could be pushed down the boardwalk on a rolling wicker chair by a black worker.
The interview has already been pushed back several times as the Canadian punkers scramble to finish soundcheck at the Troubadour club in L.A. before that night's gig.
They pushed off the shore, rowing through the ice of the wide Delaware.
The baby was naturally attracted to the bowlful of gold and jewels, but an angel intervened and pushed his hand to the other bowl.
She pushed a small blue button on the side of the device, and it lit up.
When everything was frozen in place again, he pushed the Unpause button.
Campbell, along with three other congressmen, pushed the legislation as a mutually beneficial measure for pet owners and Amtrak.
He helped me into the boat, then pushed off and jumped in himself.
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They walked silently to the elevator and Bridget pushed the down button.
He pushed through the double doors at the end of the hall, descended the stairs, and wandered almost blindly through the lobby and out into the street.
Purposefully, I squared my shoulders and pushed myself off the couch.
Trekking at altitude is no easy feat, and each woman pushed herself harder than she thought possible.
The equipment is pushed to the limits of its hydraulic pistons and pumps as it moves heavy materials out of trenches into dump beds or across grades.
Meanwhile, thousands of refugees were pushed into Kisangani by the advancing rebels.
By 1914 Wiltshire's canals had dried up and for many years they became dumping grounds for rubbish as the war pushed any development plans into the background.
She was a blushing bride of seventeen, a sad and stoic wife, a loving mother, an embittered chaperone, and a daughter pushed away.
One of the local punkers pushed passed him and he could breath again.
Tiburce always believed in me, and always pushed me to work hard.
In January 1945 Montgomery's forces pushed forward to the Rhine.
Thereafter, Twenty-first Army Group pushed steadily towards the Rhine.
He quickly pushed the guilt aside and frowned disapprovingly.
As the pipe is pushed along the floor the objects turn over and move together and apart, while the metal bar and aluminum objects punctuate the movement with a rich sound.
A surge in the number of foreign guests staying in Japanese hotels has pushed up occupancy rates at leading hotels and bolstered their bottom lines.
The state of public education, as well as race and class relations in the United States, have pushed many families into the sprawling suburbs and edge cities of North America.
All thoughts of being quiet and timid were erased as I spotted the crimson stains on the pot of the plant where someone had obviously pushed it down the stairs.
The gradualism of government reorganization frustrated expectations and more radical political and social models pushed the Italian states to the crisis of war and revolution.
Ayutthaya pushed into Khmer territory and sacked the capital of Angkor.
The cost of currency exchange has also pushed prices higher.
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Years of tests have pushed him hard physically and mentally.
He dug his feet in to gain his balance and pushed his rear-end up first.
Getting a brand that was erstwhile pushed by James Bond himself?
That, of course, was exactly my plan, and I pushed past him, dribbling the ball down the field before scoring after many failed attempts at stealing the ball on his part.
That requirement is part of a new law pushed by Cheye Calvo, the mayor of the small town of Berwyn Heights.
In 1648, Cromwell pushed on until mainland Cornwall was in the hands of the Parliamentarians.
The quality of cut can be inferior if the grass is pushed away from the blade by the cushion of air.
The place was really no more than a cottage, wattle-daubed walls and a thatched roof with an ale bush pushed under the eaves.
Alderman Richard Mell then pushed through antipeddling ordinances in the 33rd and 47th wards.
Holmes pushed open the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord.
Only the hum of the miserable creatures stirred the heavy murk that beaded our foreheads with sweat as we pushed our way through it.
Ouch, Abernathy thought, SET, targets, white papers, articulate, strategies, deployed. Bizbabble. No soul. He pushed himself to act interested.
Di wanted to weep because Miss G had never even touched her boosies. Then Fiamma pushed Miss G away from her, roughly.
The lieutenant tried the handle again, but still his efforts were quite bootless. He pushed and kicked, but the door was a strong one.
But he is not one of those lawyers who bow and scrape before wealthy clients. He will not be pushed around.
Next came the narrow silk straps of her bustier. She pushed the satin fabric down, toward her waist, exposing her breasts.
Still feeling the buzz from the coffee, he pushed through the last of the homework.
He pushed open the door, and a hideous cheesy smell of sour beer hit him in the face.
The water pushed large blocks of tepid air about around his chair, giving the faint illusion of freshness and coolth.
But I had been pushed across the boundary by I didn't know what hands, whether streaked or cradlesome or hooflike, and I could not turn around.
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Actually, with a better centre back who won't be pushed around by Drogba's douchebaggery in the box, Bayern would have a better chance.
Then he reached down and picked up the metal shelving from the thing and pushed it forward so it fell down on its other side with a loud crash.
All but the footgoers pushed on to the Hermitage, where Sam dismounted to stand beside Jackson as the great man spoke his praises.
She pushed her fingers under the cream lace, into the ginger harl of spun glass.
Flat shoes. As she pushed off her left heel and pressed the sole of her foot to the cold floor she looked forward to them.
After wintering, in 1644 Poyarkov pushed down the Zeya and became the first Russian to reach the Amur River.
Cutler pushed forward the two necessary white chips. No one's hand was high, and Loomis made a slight winning.
The Hikkams pushed a table over by the booth where the Lochwoods and Meekums were sitting, exchanged his and sat down.
By prohibiting the Marklo councils, Charlemagne pushed the frilingi and lazzi out of political power.
During the period immediately after the death of Tiberius' son, Drusus, Claudius was pushed by some quarters as a potential heir.
It has been suggested that the Senate may have pushed for the marriage, to end the feud between the Julian and Claudian branches.
He established a second bishopric at Winchester, while the one at Dorchester was soon abandoned as Mercian power pushed southwards.
Fourteen incy-wincy pearl buttons that needed to be pushed through a presumably corresponding number of loops. By him.
The justiciars pushed him and his forces back to the castles of Tickhill and Windsor, which were besieged.
Cromwell continued to gain the king's favour when he designed and pushed through the Laws in Wales Acts, uniting England and Wales.
She pushed the barriers of tradition by never marrying nor giving into womanly duties.
After this passage, the Pelican was pushed south and discovered an island which Drake called Elizabeth Island.
He pushed through the Black Acts to assert royal authority over the Kirk, and denounced the writings of his former tutor Buchanan.
Jink it he did. Norton pushed the aircraft left just as he was at the bottom of his loop.
Von Hiller's 16th Brigade also pushed forward with six battalions against Plancenoit.
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In under a month, Commonwealth forces were pushed back into Egypt with the exception of the besieged port of Tobruk.
After that, the Western Allies slowly pushed into Germany, but failed to cross the Ruhr river in a large offensive.
British, American, and Chinese forces defeated the Japanese in northern Burma in March, and the British pushed on to reach Rangoon by 3 May.
By continuing to ignore these warnings, social care remains in crisis and councils and the NHS continue to be pushed to the financial brink.
He pushed through knots of whalemen grouped with their families and friends, and surrounded by piles of luggage.
As American settlers pushed west, they found that the Appalachian Mountains provided a barrier to shipping goods eastward.
I gave myself a mental shakedown, tried to suppress my ladyboner and pushed past him.
Progressively, the channel was pushed south to form the St Albans depression by the repeated advances of the ice sheet.
Gradually the English were pushed back and ground down by the Scots' schiltrons.
These increasing tensions led to a mutual scramble for ordnance and pushed the colonies toward open war.
Pleistocene climate was marked by repeated glacial cycles in which continental glaciers pushed to the 40th parallel in some places.
At the 2016 Scottish Parliament elections, the party again had 5 MSPs elected but was pushed into 5th place by the Scottish Greens.
The cue holds on to the handle of the stone and is then pushed along by the curler.
Vlad fiercely resisted Ottoman rule, having both repelled the Ottomans and been pushed back several times.
Australia's equivalent to the rabbit, the bilby, was quickly pushed out by the rabbits.
Secure in his now truncated realm, Dafydd now appears to have pushed ambition to one side and resolved to enjoy the quiet life.
The 21st Division pushed into the German lines and flanked Fricourt to the north.
Half of the 13th and 14th Welsh, along with the 15th RWF, then pushed towards Iron Cross Ridge.
Despite many losses, they pushed forward and were able to secure their portion of Iron Cross Ridge.
With Iron Cross Ridge in British hands, the 11th SWB and 17th RWF pushed forward for the Steenbeck.
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In the 38th Division sector, the Fourth Army pushed the Germans back from their gains and onto the eastern bank of the Ancre.
By the end of the day, in heavy fighting, the division had seized the ridge, pushed the Germans back around Ovillers and taken 634 prisoners.
The 35th Division reached the fringe of Houthulst Forest but was outflanked and pushed back in places.
Where livestock are used as a source of power, they may be pushed beyond their limits to the point of exhaustion.
Rising food prices, in turn, pushed an additional six percent of the country into poverty in 2008 alone.
Afterward, Evans consistently pushed their demo tapes to every Beatle until he gained approval from all four to sign the group.
Bobby was ready to rock and roll with a full tilt bluff. He pushed three hundred thousand in chips into the pot.
This water is pushed downward and spreads along the bottom in both the seaward and landward direction.
Mostly they caught fluke, which would then be sold from barrows pushed around the housing estates.
In upwind designs, turbine blades must be made stiff to prevent the blades from being pushed into the tower by high winds.
Afonso Henriques and his successors, aided by military monastic orders, pushed southward to drive out the Moors.
Though outarmed, Maccabee's forces pushed the enemy soldiers out of Jerusalem, and retook the sacred temple.
Seemann developed a different scenario, in which Plateosaurus herds congregated on large water holes, and some herd members got pushed in.
The oil crisis pushed West European car buyers away from larger, less economical cars.
Strongly pushed by Dutch Revolt leader William the Silent, the Dutch Republic became known for its relative religious tolerance.
He was pushed back and then had to deal with the Flemish invasion of Artois.
In response to this the government had pushed through a Militia Act which created a large militia to defend Britain.
To remedy this, additional stuffing is pushed up under the overstuffing so as to crowd it out and fill up all hollows.
The French 42nd Division at Nieuport was sent as reinforcements on 23 October, when the Belgians were pushed back between Dixmude and Nieuport.
Surviving Soviet units were pushed hundreds kilometres to the east and the Wehrmacht advance went almost uncontested.
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Weygand was unmoved, only giving permission for the division to retreat over the Seine if it was pushed back from the Andelle.
For three hours the Composite Regiment resisted German attacks and was then pushed back.
The Third Army quickly pushed south and then east, meeting very little German resistance.
Originally, the parliament was to be formed before the president was elected, but interim president Adly Mansour pushed the date.
Under normal conditions the displaced earth is pushed to the surface, resulting in the characteristic molehills.
When water reaches the basin it is pushed by strong winds into a large circular current called the Beaufort Gyre.
During the summer, this area of high pressure is pushed out closer to its Siberian and Canadian sides.
The limited actions taken by the Western powers pushed Mussolini's Italy towards alliance with Hitler's Germany anyway.
Pennsylvania's border was thus unclear and the colony pushed for a border far south of the 40th parallel.
Because water just offshore of Antarctica is being pushed away and into Antarctica, it leads to the Antarctic Divergence region.
As the Atlantic Ocean widened, North America and South America were pushed westward, separated for a time by oceanic crust.
Some authors have pushed back the appearance of fully modern behavior to around 80,000 years ago in order to incorporate the South African data.
On April 8 they encountered a current so strong that it pushed them backwards and forced them to seek anchorage.
Henry was pushed onto the defensive as French, Flemish and Angevin forces began to pillage the Normandy countryside.
Sea level rise may also contribute to accretion, as material is pushed up with rising sea levels.
The Germans were surprised, and were pushed back by the French and British armies.
During this time FitzOsbern and his followers pushed on westwards into Wales, thus beginning the Norman conquest of the Welsh Kingdom of Gwent.
Relaxing the diaphragm has the opposite effect, decreasing the volume of the lung cavity, causing air to be pushed out of the lungs.
They expanded eventually into Roman areas such as Switzerland, Austria, and Bavaria, possibly pushed by groups arriving from the east.
But the outcome of Rome's disastrous campaigns into Dacia in AD 86 and AD 88 pushed Domitian to settle the situation through diplomacy.
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The loose monetary policies of the early 1990s pushed inflation to hyperinflationary levels.
Turning his attention from Ireland, the following year Agricola raised a fleet and pushed beyond the Forth into Caledonia.
I pushed my cropped hair up and away from the back of my neck where it was pinchy and itching.
During the final century of Merovingian rule, the kings were increasingly pushed into a ceremonial role.
Numerous groups of Slavs and Bulgars, pushed by the Khazars, settled in the Italian peninsula between the 7th and the 8th centuries.
Sami activists have pushed for nationwide application of these basic rights.
The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, pushed for socialist revolution in the Soviets and on the streets.
He believed that good would triumph in the Parliament, and pushed for human rights legislation just as he wished for a unified Germany.
I pushed the plug back into the electrical socket and the lamp began to glow again.
Portugal pushed back, seeking another papal pronouncement that limited the line of demarcation to the Atlantic.
In the initial decades, the return fleet usually set out from Cochin in December, although that was eventually pushed forward to January.
By 602, a series of successful Byzantine campaigns had pushed the Avars and Slavs back across the Danube.
In the 670s, the Bulgars were pushed south of the Danube by the arrival of the Khazars.
Kublai's seizure of power in 1260 pushed the Mongol Empire into a new direction.
The Anatolians managed to breach this section of walls and entered the city but were just as quickly pushed back by the defenders.
Dias pushed up the coast, unexpectedly going past Cape Guardafui into the Gulf of Aden, waters as yet unsailed by Portuguese ships.
This legislation has pushed spring break visitation to various parts of Mexico, with Acapulco as one of the top destinations.
Renamed the Vanua'aku Pati in 1974, the party pushed for independence, which was gained amidst the brief Coconut War.
Despite occasional successes, Ivan's army was pushed back, and the nation failed to secure a coveted position on the Baltic Sea.
From around 1150 it pushed south to the upper Sukhona and used this route to trade with the Bulgars and also for some raiding.
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Joined now by the overwintering party, they pushed down the Zeya to the Amur.
Pynson was a more accomplished stylist than Caxton and consequently pushed the English language further toward standardisation.
Far from precipitating that event therefore he pushed it off until the very last moment, when, in fact, there was no alternative left him.
Both Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Vice President Johnson had pushed for the introduction of the civil rights legislation.
As we pushed among the reeds in the swamp, the grebes could be heard quonking in the buckbrush or beyond it.
Verrazzano's stay was interrupted by a storm which pushed him north towards Martha's Vineyard.
Asquith hoped to act as a mediator between members of his cabinet as they pushed Liberal legislation through Parliament.
The pump pushed, rather than pulled the column of water upward, hence it could lift water any distance.
The friction at the interface between the material and the rolls causes the material to be pushed through.
He established himself in Kabul and then pushed steadily southward into India from Afghanistan through the Khyber Pass.
Scottish writer Muriel Spark pushed the boundaries of realism in her novels.
She also pushed for licensed prostitution and laws that addressed the customers rather than the women.
Unfortunately, this act pushed the Netherlands away from Denmark and into the arms of Sweden.
This marked the Monk's Path but was constantly being pushed over by cattle.
He pushed across the counter a roneoed form with his particulars entered in a sloping hand.
The less I ate, the harder I pushed myself, academically and physically.
The sokoban problem encodes a small instance of a well known computer game, where a single stone must be pushed to its goal position.
Part of the tinnie could be seen pushed up against the bank but otherwise it had all sunk.
She pushed her glasses back up to the bridge of her nose and leaned back on her twiglet arms.
Street people, day-trippers, and tourists pushed the paper's circulation to 117,000, the largest any community undergrounder would reach.

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