6 sentences with “pushing”

However, following the success of Piedmont-Sardinia in pushing Austria back in the north, Garibaldi returned.

Throughout the century, Britain had great success in pushing France aside as a rival in regions as varied as North America and India.

Back in Italy, the Huns, under the leadership of the legendary warlord Attila, arrived in the late 440s, pushing to the gates of Rome in 451.

By 400 BCE, groups of Celts began to make further inroads into "civilised" lands, sacking Rome itself in 387 BCE and pushing into the Hellenistic lands of Macedonia, Greece and Anatolia.

Part of this phenomenon was the baby boom. Although not as extreme in Europe as in the US, the generation of children born in the first ten years after World War II was very large, pushing Europe's population from 264 million in 1940 to 320 million in the early 1970s.

The Reichstag building was set on fire by an unknown arsonist in February, and Hitler blamed the Communists, pushing through an emergency measure (the "Reichstag Fire Decree") that suspended civil rights. This allowed the state to destroy the German Communist Party, imprisoning 20,000 of its members in the newly built concentration camps.