When push comes to shove, operators will pay hyperbolic prices to keep a reactor humming.
When push comes to shove, a clear majority of teachers still support their unions.
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But when push comes to shove, beleaguered Israelis often sink their differences and stand together.
When push comes to shove in tense and uncertain times, gold rises to the top.
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When push comes to shove, it has at times been ready to get a move on.
Most believe that when push comes to shove, America's thirst for oil will exceed its democratic principles.
But Paddy Ashdown is disposed, when push comes to shove, to back Labour.
Structural reforms have lagged behind, but when push comes to shove, they have kept a handle on the public finances.
Grandees on both sides still insist that when push comes to shove, everyone will stop posturing and do their duty.
When push comes to shove, are you willing to fight as hard for working families as you are for the wealthiest Americans?
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When push comes to shove, the brothers do the right thing in a climax so stock you could use it to make gravy.
But he draws strength from every insult: Patrick's tougher than he looks, and when push comes to shove he's ready to prove it.
Just as she has tried to be more easygoing, but when push comes to shove, as it always will, she is not easygoing.
Russia's western neighbours hope that, when push comes to shove, Mr Putin's craving for respectability will prevent him from doing anything too unpleasant.
When push comes to shove, the average Hollywood studio is still less interested in downsizing than in finding ever more ingenious ways of creating a big hit.
And what many of the Tea Party candidates have found is that when push comes to shove, their backers want to protect their entitlements as much as the next guy.
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Thus, the market appears to be assuming that when push comes to shove, the money will be provided to Greece before mid-July and we will worry about the next problem later.
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But when push comes to shove, they are likely to be set aside and the firm will revert to the dominant paradigm of management: managers controlling individuals within a framework of hierarchical bureaucracy.
And, if expedience has us cozying up to a petty dictator who puts his interests before those of his country, what makes us think that -- when push comes to shove -- he won't put his interests before ours?
However, not unlike so many who want to hold onto their employment, what people would like to do often gives way to a very different course of action when push comes to shove and one is suddenly looking unemployment squarely in the eye.
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And even though the restaurant business is relatively paltry relative to the size of the debt, and relatively risky, the fact that it also owns this giant oil field means when push comes to shove it can pay off the debt by turning on the oil spigot.
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The new time-limit rule, and the possible exemptions at JFK, will create many difficult air traffic decisions when "push comes to shove" about who gets priority, he said.
But he changes the skyline of a city, and his inner core is as tough as tungsten when continuous push comes to ultimate shove.
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