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A small man pushed his way to the front of the line, only to be pushed back, amid loud and colorful curse.

Just a few more minutes of giggling and splashing in the bathtub. So what if bedtime got pushed back a little?

Arnold ate a few more forkfuls of his breakfast, put his hands on the edge of the table and pushed back his chair.

The front part is then pushed back and the top is all over the place.

The study shows the wind might have pushed back both waterways. That could have made a pathway on the sea floor for Moses' people to cross.

I was ready to get up and go when the man suddenly pushed back his chair, stood up and hurried out of the buffet.

The company's recent PlayBook tablet has been a disappointment, and several product introductions this year have been pushed back.

Indeed, much of what might be seen as traditional history is pushed back to the fourth and final part of the book.

But she says the equipment is often pushed back in a corner somewhere -- unused and forgotten.

She pushed back the curtain of brown hair from her eyes.

Developers with even a bit of decency have pushed back or even left projects over this sort of behavior.

You can take it further because you're already pushed back to the point of being somebody that you recognize.

He took off the boy's cap and pushed back his thick flaxen curls .

If the earth ever looked too young for certain evolutionary developments to have occurred, the age was pushed back in the textbooks.

Queues would then be very short, because once a customer was pushed back a couple of places he or she would give up and go home.

They pushed back at Professor Yang's allegations, stating the students had not actually used the term "counter-revolutionary. "

The U. S. Treasury Department dutifully pushed back against the suggestion that the dollar should lose its preeminence.

The White House pushed back against suggestions it could be leaking classified information for political purposes.

Backwater Water held or pushed back by or as if by a dam or current.

Lester, his thick hair pushed back from his vigorous face, leaned back moodily on his pillow.

We pushed back on the undue influence of special interests. We didn't give in to mistrust or to cynicism or to fear.

And she is still toying with the idea of having a large section of her gums cut out so that her mouth can be pushed back into her face.

Then he pushed back his chair and began to take off his shoes.

Thus when the Sun is overhead in the Pacific or India or Europe, the magnetic N Pole is pushed back over the horizon.

This ticket is still awaiting a technician's reply. If you reply to this ticket now, the ticket will be pushed back to the end . . .

By May 25, the British army was pushed back and driven off the continent at Dunkirk .

Embarrassed myself, I quickly pushed back up my glasses. I must have looked like a lewd uncle peeping at a beautiful girl.

De Beers has pushed back its results to February 20, to be announced alongside those of its parent, Anglo American.

The issue may be pushed back to a G20 summit in Seoul in November, Mukherjee told AFP in an interview.

Shuttle and station crew members are busy preparing for the mission's next spacewalk, pushed back for a second time to Saturday.

Proposals by the European Commission, the EU's executive arm, to tackle the issue have been pushed back to the autumn.

Most of the time these stories get pushed back in Upcoming Stories within few minutes.

At one end of it, where an arm-chair stood pushed back, were spread the remains of the Badger's plain but ample supper.

They did not shoot me; they pushed back their chairs and left.

Romania's president also suggested its 2015 target date could be pushed back by "one or two years. "

As the expected ship date continues to get pushed back, these prices are going to get much more ugly.

I was not weary any more, pushed back my bike and waited silently just like a pool of peached water in the autumn.

Election officials here are cautioning that previously announced dates to post official returns in mid-September may be pushed back.

In a prime-time address to the nation, Bush pushed back against the Democrats' calls to end the unpopular war.

Speaking at a fundraiser in Virginia, McCain pushed back, saying tax increases on anyone would worsen the already struggling economy.

The US Federal Reserve yesterday pushed back against congressional moves to strip it of its oversight over small banks.

Rail links were fitfully restored as the German army was pushed back.

Magnus's army was gradually pushed back into a defensive circle.

Excite was so annoyed that it pushed back with a page on how to count URLs, as you can see archived here.

At that moment, I felt my heart , my character, and my whole body was being pushed back and forth over a cheese-grater.

If you let the bill-paying get pushed back, it becomes a dreaded thing, and your bills start to become overdue, and then it's much worse.

The bookshelves are pushed back into the outer wall of each floor offering a nice open design.

But the CIA pushed back, arguing that it would expose sources and methods and disrupt an important source of intelligence.

The Taliban have been pushed back from Kandahar, but they are not close to being defeated.

According to the BBC, the rebel militia in Misrata has pushed back government forces a few kilometers in several directions.

Even as floods were draining into the Gulf of Thailand on Bangkok's southern shores, high tides pushed back, amplifying the floods.

Liberals pushed back in the 19th century but Otto von Bismarck's alliance with conservative parties after 1878 meant a return to meddling.

Bereft of leverage, it can be pushed back to its bottom line by a clever opponent.

With more than ' 100, 000 still needed, the deadline for payment to the Hutchinson Cancer Research Center had to be pushed back to June 11.

The business lobby pushed back, and Canada-China relations were chilled.

Don't put it off until the end of the day, when it will get pushed back until tomorrow.

And the medical guys, the medical bureaucracy, pushed back on me and said: 'No, no, it really doesn't matter.

Mr. Obama has pushed back his timetable for Congressional action, saying he expects to get the necessary legislation in September.

The round-bosomed maid came in, drew the curtains, pushed back a log, and said consolingly: "Verra--vera. "

Yet it is also true that Google pushed back against the government as much as any other American company.

With this high degree of specialization, the frontiers of knowledge are steadily being pushed back more rapidly than ever before.

And in Hongshan District, a newly built residential building was actually pushed back 10 meters to make way for an ancient pine.

They made some advances, but have been pushed back by Libyan army counterattacks.

With this high degree of specialization, the frontier of knowledge are steadily being pushed back more rapidly than ever before.

The oil industry, meanwhile, pushed back with a study this week claiming the pipeline would create 20, 000 new construction jobs.

Congress, the courts and a new president eventually pushed back, but not all the way.

Even China has not pushed back against the US presence in the Pacific.

Evidence for the existence of Earth's magnetic field has been pushed back about 250 million years, new research suggests.

"Let's go! " the activists shouted, as police, numbering several hundred, pushed back with shields.

But he is 'continually pushed back into nothingness like a drowning man whose head is pushed under the water'.

Round two. In July 2010, the United States and much of Southeast Asia pushed back.

Meanwhile its US rival Boeing has pushed back delivery of its first 787 Dreamliner by several weeks.

Advertisers and television networks have pushed back even against this puny threat.

Venus is currently being pushed back and forth, within the eddy flow cup in front of Planet X.

At the very least, any talk of raising rates has been pushed back for the foreseeable future.

He stood up and pushed back his chair and stepped over to Alex.

The wheel of history cannot be pushed back.

But Premier Wen Jiabao and other government officials have pushed back against outside pressure on the currency.

Bankers say those negotiations are part of the reason the government has pushed back its announcement of the results.

Hey, hey. . . -Look at the dude right here in them tight old slacks, oh, look at the hairline, man; it's way pushed back.

It was also pushed back because the judge fell and broke bones and needed to recuperate.

In April, Bulgaria's center-right government pushed back a plan to join in 2013, citing the need for more preparation.

It has already been pushed back six times since civil war split the country in half in 2002.

In the besieged coastal city of Misrata, they have steadily pushed back Col. Gadhafi's fighters.

The flight has been pushed back by about an hour but please keep checking the board just in case.

Although pushed back by the Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali, they recovered part their first empire between 1821 and f 1833.

The invaders were pushed back beyond their own country eventually.

In January 2010, the clock's minute hand was pushed back one minute from five to six minutes before midnight.

A little after 6 p. m. , the passengers filed onto the plane, the cabin door closed and Flight 447 pushed back from the gate.

Dispersed The 1996 student protesters were pushed back with water cannons.

Dispersed The 1996 student protesters were pushed back with water cannons.

He laid downthe orange and pushed back his chair, and she took her little warm hand out ofher muff and gave it to him.

He pushed back his chair so hard that it fell over .

The Capital City of Lordaeron goes under seige by Doomhammer. The orcs are pushed back.

At the same time, they also pushed back the expected date of a Federal Reserve rate increase because of the turmoil in markets.

AMANPOUR: And you yourself, though, you've had this blog. Have the Chinese pushed back? I understand they shut it down.

Over many years , erosion has pushed back the coastline .

Since reunification in 1990, Germany has pushed back.

Do the benefits you pushed back then still work with what people seek for solutions now?

When push came to shove, Ben Ali pushed back -- hard.

Your hair looks sexy pushed back.

Construction began in 2007, but the opening date was again pushed back until 2011.

The opening date was pushed back to Oct. 1, 2009, the 60th anniversary of Communist rule.

Shocked, several executives pushed back from the table. Two left the room.

But the Nubians were pushed back all the way to Memphis.

The second season of Sherlock has been pushed back to 2012.

The researchers evaluated 201 Rhode Island high school students whose school pushed back its start time from 8 to 8: 30.

Chile was leading their tie 2-0 after the match was pushed back a day because of the earthquake.

Why do you wear your hair like that? Your hair looks so sexy pushed back.

Those students' school pushed back its start time from 8 to 8: 30.

He took off the boy's cap and pushed back his thick flaxen curls, felt his slender arms and his small fingers;

he pushed back his hat in an odd comic way

Oxygen's origin on Earth pushed back millions of years