1 Slow sales have pushed down orders.

2 The parents are complaining that some unpopular subjects are being pushed down the students' throats.

3 The grass had been pushed down in places where people had been lying.

4 He pushed down some one with blond hair.

5 She pushed down the quilt and knelt on the bed.

6 The driver pushes down on the brakes and initially nothing happens.

7 The air in the room, which had higher pressure,[] pushed down on the water in the glass.

8 So, with this result, I decided to try the opposite by pushing down on the boom through the turn.

9 Thinking his number was up(), Peter pushed down hard and went underneath the glider.

10 She pushes down her dress but is not at all embarrassed.

11 He's a floating penguin that literally toots with joy when he is pushed down under the water.

12 The rafts and the wharves were lined with standing bodies, and people were pushing down through the woods on either side.

13 When genuine feelings are denied and pushed down, depression may follow.

14 The crash also pushed down the output-capital ratio, by an average of one tenth, as excess capacity mounted.

15 Not waiting for the completion of this effort, a strong Union army had pushed down through western Tennessee.

16 She was just pushing down the lid and trying to close the catches with fumbling fingers when the door swung open.

17 Pushing down the high price of food during a famine is desirable.

18 However, if you train your diaphragm to push down.

19 Then you push down the clutch pedal.

20 You should push down gently to give a slight counter - resistance.

21 The falls will either push down steel prices or widen steelmakers'profit margins.

22 Over time, that could push down prices for often costly biotech drugs.

23 Open the back cover and push down the release pin on the back cover to remove.

24 While treading water, one does not push down on the water.

25 When miners sell forward their production, they help push down prices.

26 But it can't push down on the water because the water is inside the glass.

27 Meanwhile, I had to go up into the roof and push down the ballcock when things went wrong.

28 The domestic authorities can simply allow internal inflation to push down the rate of exchange.

29 The excess supply of money in the domestic money market will push down the rate of interest.

30 To tighten the belt, pull its free end while you push down on the child restraint.

31 Next, the rewrite phase will push down the join through the UNION operation, and eliminate the useless joins.

32 "You push down on the wheel to gain air speed, perhaps they (pilots) were getting information that the air speed was too high," said Miles O'Brien, a pilot and aviation analyst.

33 Place your hand on the protruding piece of the board and slowly push down.

34 Tighter policy may push down long - term interest rates,[] boosting some asset markets further.

35 Have them push down into the eyes, which then would either narrow the eyes into angry slits, or give the eyes the "flat-top" wide-eyed look of a guy about to rip your arms off.

36 An attempt to push down the price of a security, usually by short selling.

37 More competition could push down prices and attract first - time buyers.

38 To elevate the chair, you just push down, like this.

39 Push down the dollar price rising to become the main force.

40 This would push down profits and could lower the companies'interest in investing in lifting output.

41 The government had done everything it could to push down inflation.