push back

How To Use push back In A Sentence

• The magic word Literacy campaigns push back the boundaries of ignorance and give people more chance of controlling their own destiny.
• Mankind is constantly striving to expand his horizons, to push back the boundaries of the unknown, and to challenge himself further and further.
• We are the ones who are muddling through and getting crapped on by the media all the time and harped to raise our kids right and blamed if they don't turn out to be perfect little citizens, so yes, a little push back on our behalf is welcome. The Bad Mother Manifesto | Her Bad Mother
• This provides straight running as driving forces tend to push back the rear spindles.
• Consequently, they have been enabled to push back against their growing irrelevance, increasing their role in global finance.
• Those who had been unheard for some time might want to try to push back their popularity using this.
• NASA is only delaying their launches so they can push back the "decommission" deadline of the shuttle till after the elections in 2012. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
• Suddenly, when he started to push back asylum-seekers like a sea captain repelling boarders, the polls began to turn.
• The firm wanted to push back the deadline but was refused.
• The scientists' work will push back the frontiers of physics.