What's the difference between pushing and stampede?

Pushing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Push
  • (a.) Pressing forward in business; enterprising; driving; energetic; also, forward; officious, intrusive.

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.

Stampede


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A wild, headlong scamper, or running away, of a number of animals; usually caused by fright; hence, any sudden flight or dispersion, as of a crowd or an army in consequence of a panic.
  • (v. i.) To run away in a panic; -- said droves of cattle, horses, etc., also of armies.
  • (v. t.) To disperse by causing sudden fright, as a herd or drove of animals.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Resentment towards the political elite, the widening gap between the immensely rich and the poor, the deteriorating social security system, the collapse in oil prices and what Forbes has called "a stampede" of investors out of Russia – an outflow of $42bn in the first four months of 2012 – means the economy is flagging.
  • (2) They have taken a series of safety measures over the past decade aimed at preventing crowd crushes after tragedies such as the stampede in 2006, which resulted in 350 deaths, a building collapse in the same year which killed 76 and a stampede that killed more than 200 people in 2004.
  • (3) Titanic's trailer is two minutes 37 seconds of lifeboat-related stampeding intercut with women swishing about in big hats doing seasick Dowager Countess expressions.
  • (4) Risks include terrorist bombings, riots and stampedes in the tunnels and pedestrian walkways leading to the Jamarat stoning pillars (representing Satan) – as well as the routine hazards of heat and disease.
  • (5) On day one, we were almost stampeded by elephants, and I had to suffocate a goat and then drink its blood directly from the jugular.
  • (6) Mr Olie said three people had been killed in a stampede at a store opening in Saudi Arabia last year, but that nothing like this had happened in Britain.
  • (7) This behaviour has led to stampedes that have killed calves and hampered walruses’ ability to find food.
  • (8) At the al-Moaysem medical centre, Egyptian Osama el-Gindy said he was looking for a relative who was a few metres ahead of him when the stampede began.
  • (9) A stampede in 1990 killed 1,426 people and another in February 2004 that killed 244.
  • (10) The real threat to the Labour party is that we will be stampeded into moving right on race, immigration and welfare in response to the alleged Ukip threat.
  • (11) In recent years, as media coverage of the event has grown and scenes of rioting and stampedes have become more common, Black Friday has drawn its share of criticism.
  • (12) Travelling from the Calgary rodeo and stampede in Canada, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will begin their trip to southern California with an exclusive party at the house of Britain's consul general, Dame Barbara Hay.
  • (13) It wasn't so much the scrambling panic at Westminster, the stampede of cabinet ministers and MPs for seats on the next train north out of Euston.
  • (14) 1998 9 April: More than 118 people are killed and 180 injured in a stampede at Mina.
  • (15) In 1990, more than 1,400 died in a stampede inside a tunnel.
  • (16) White House spokesman Jay Carney made it clear on Tuesday that Obama would not be stampeded into approving the project.
  • (17) The surges that accompany half-time in major football matches as the nation stampedes to put its kettle on, for example, are the stuff of legend.
  • (18) The race begins when the NEC opens nominations: as candidates need signatures from 35 MPs they will stampede to collect the most – and MPs will hasten to pledge allegiance to a likely winner.
  • (19) But when it comes to the stadiums … having reduced our expectations and our needs, we'll have what is necessary," he cheered over the din of the stampede heading towards the canteen.
  • (20) They ventriloquise the fear of millions into a scream of fire in the crowded theatre of modernity where all the doors are locked, and then they watch the stampede.