Sentence examples for been pressing for less from inspiring English sources

Moscow wants a formal treaty, while the Bush administration has been pressing for less formal limits.

President François Hollande's Socialists and their allies won an absolute majority in runoff parliamentary elections on Sunday, strengthening the hand of Mr. Hollande both at home and in Europe, where he is pressing for less austerity and more growth in the face of a deepening recession.

PARIS — President François Hollande's Socialists and their allies won an absolute majority in runoff parliamentary elections on Sunday, strengthening the hand of Mr. Hollande both at home and in Europe, where he is pressing for less austerity and more growth in the face of a deepening recession.

As Mr Umbdenstock notes, it was less painful than the $225 billion or more in cuts that Barack Obama had been pressing for earlier in the year.

Business has been pressing for change for years.

The prime minister, Antonis Samaras, has been pressing for those cuts.

He had been pressing for such steps.

Meanwhile, Britain's security and intelligence agencies are pressing for more, not less, cooperation with their EU partners.

The Republicans are pressing for more cuts and less revenue, although, in the talks before Christmas, Boehner did reportedly agree to a figure of a trillion dollars in new revenues.

The Senate will soon take up a budget plan similar to the one passed by the House, though it has been bottled up for the past week in the Senate Budget Committee by conservatives who are pressing for bigger tax cuts and less spending.

The move to personalise the row over the health and social care bill comes as it emerged on Wednesday that ministers are pressing for the bill to become law in less than three weeks time, on 20 March.