A rise in short-term rates would give a small upward push to the yields on 10-year notes.

The buyback programs provided an upward push in the market, analysts said, but the impact on any given stock could not be determined.

American investment houses also started buying the dollar when it fell, helping with the upward push.

That would give prices an additional upward push.

That "upward" push of the air being displaced causes the falling drop to have a rather flattened bottom.

And the building's muscular upward push is part of the message Moss wants to share.

Oil prices had been dismissed for months as a serious drag on economic growth or an upward push on inflation.

But thus far that grassroots approach has not resulted in a large upward push into defensive and offensive coordinator positions.

In response to that upward push of rents, office furniture is moving up, too.

This is because the pressure to cut prices and the upward push on wages leave no other avenue for improving earnings.