(1) Should we care if the high street goes to hell in a handcart?
(2) That they see Britain as the place to do so says something heartening, when the popular narrative – jointly constructed by our media and our politics – says we are a declining nation going to hell in a handcart.
(3) George Osborne wants to be the chancellor who cut away the deficit so he can become prime minister, and the rest of the country can go to hell in a handcart.
(4) 11.26am GMT Yesterday, energy secretary Ed Davey was pushing the renewables handcart, using Russia and the Crimea as added justification for the growth of offshore wind farms, my colleague Terry Macalister reported.
(5) "While I sweep up the wrappers I watch the other rituals of the morning: Mr Halpert unlocking the laundry's handcart from its mooring to a cellar door, Joe Cornacchia's son-in-law stacking out the empty crates from the delicatessen, the barber bringing out his sidewalk folding chair ... Mr Lofaro, the short, thick-bodied, white-aproned fruit man who stands outside his doorway up the street, his arms folded, his feet planted, looking solid as earth itself."
(6) He pointed out that Love Productions – in which Sky bought a 70% stake last year – also made the controversial documentary Benefits Street , about communities subsisting on welfare: for him, the shows are flipsides of the same Daily Mail-ish coin: “The poor are going to hell in a handcart, but all is well in the village-hall vision of England.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Richard McKerrow, the co-founder of Love Productions.
(7) But that would mean linking arms with the side of the media that insists Britain has gone to hell in a handcart.
(8) All these freedoms were won in the face of ferocious opposition from the same hell-in-a-handcart brigade.
(9) The middle-aged folk of today might be an especially unhappy cohort, either because of their particular relationship to the economic cycle, or because they’re living through an era when everything actually is going to hell in a handcart.
(10) In Glasgow , we had lots of murders of young people, and we thought: 'we are going to hell in a handcart'.
(11) Yet there are Labour voices who believe our credibility depends on hitching ourselves to the coalition's handcart.
(12) THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS.” “THIS IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THIS COUNTRY GOING TO HELL IN A HANDCART.” The last of those points is an example of how well Breitbart knows its audience.
Push
Definition:
(n.) A pustule; a pimple.
(v. t.) To press against with force; to drive or impel by pressure; to endeavor to drive by steady pressure, without striking; -- opposed to draw.
(v. t.) To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.
(v. t.) To press or urge forward; to drive; to push an objection too far.
(v. t.) To bear hard upon; to perplex; to embarrass.
(v. t.) To importune; to press with solicitation; to tease.
(v. i.) To make a thrust; to shove; as, to push with the horns or with a sword.
(v. i.) To make an advance, attack, or effort; to be energetic; as, a man must push in order to succeed.
(v. i.) To burst pot, as a bud or shoot.
(n.) A thrust with a pointed instrument, or with the end of a thing.
(n.) Any thrust. pressure, impulse, or force, or force applied; a shove; as, to give the ball the first push.
(n.) An assault or attack; an effort; an attempt; hence, the time or occasion for action.
(n.) The faculty of overcoming obstacles; aggressive energy; as, he has push, or he has no push.
Example Sentences:
(1) The former Stoke City manager Pulis had reportedly been left frustrated by the club failing to push through deals for various players he targeted to strengthen the Palace squad.
(2) "It seems that this is just a few experts who are pushing it through parliament … without anyone thinking through the likely consequences for our country," said Duke Tagoe of the Food Sovereignty campaign group.
(3) John Large, a leading nuclear consultant, said: "The HSE as an independent agency will come under tremendous pressure to push through these designs.
(4) One might expect that a similar news spike and rebounding of support for stricter gun control can happen, given President Obama's new push.
(5) Activists in the country are pushing to get their voices heard ahead of Sunday's race.
(6) But late last month, Amisom pushed them out of Afgoye, a strategic stronghold 30km from Mogadishu, where Amisom officials say the militants used to manufacture explosives used in attacks on the capital.
(7) Gerhard Schröder , Merkel’s immediate predecessor, had pushed through parliament a radical reform agenda to get the country’s spluttering economy back on track.
(8) The view that testes found lateral to the external ring and which could be pushed some way into the scrotum were merely retractile was questioned.
(9) There’s a fine line between pushing them to their limits and avoiding injury, and Alberto is a master at it.
(10) The BBA statistics director, David Dooks, said: "It was no surprise to see the January mortgage figures falling back from December, when transactions were being pushed through to beat the end of stamp duty relief.
(11) Markets reacted calmly on Friday to the downgrade by Moody's of 16 European and US banks, with share prices steady after the reduction in credit ratings, which can push up the cost of borrowing for banks which they could pass on to customers.
(12) They also had speakers, long before boomboxes and mobile phones pushed sounds out in public.
(13) The minister for health, Mamy Lalatiana Andriamanarivo, says he is determined to push ahead with ambitious plans for universal free healthcare.
(14) The effect of 5 beta- and 5 alpha-reduced progestins on luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LH-RH) release was examined using either an in vitro superfusion or an in vivo push-pull perfusion (PPP) technique.
(15) That may well be the case, but it is extremely unlikely that Britain would be able to choose the terms of its future cooperation with the EU and not face push-back from member states.
(16) He can appoint Garland to the supreme court, and even push through the other 58 federal judicial nominees that are pending.
(17) The environment secretary, Liz Truss , has stripped farmers of subsidies for solar farms, saying they are a “blight” that was pushing food production overseas.
(18) Threadneedle Street has shaved 0.75 points off borrowing costs in but has not moved since April and with rising energy bills likely to push inflation close to 5% in the coming months is thought more likely to raise bank rate than cut it when the Bank meets this week.
(19) On physical examination the patients complained of pain on both passive flexion and internal rotation of the hip, and when the thigh was pushed backwards at 90 degrees of flexion.
(20) The ACT’s opposition leader, Jeremy Hanson, said during Tuesday’s debate that the uncertainty surrounding the new same-sex marriage regime created significant problems for couples, and he suggested the territory could be liable to compensation if it pushed ahead of the tolerance of the commonwealth, rather than waiting for the legalities to be settled.