Sentence examples for failed push from inspiring English sources

He largely abandoned his diplomatic efforts after a failed push last year to persuade Israel to freeze the construction of settlements in territories claimed by the Palestinians.

The Obama White House underestimated the depth of the recession, it overreached politically on the health care bill and the failed push for cap and trade and it reaped a backlash at the polls in 2010.

4.41pm BST Along with the Democrat's usual "Bush was good on AIDS funding, we guess" pity-compliment of choice, Clinton goes out of his way to praise Bush's (failed) push for a comprehensive immigration bill.

Mr. Schwarzenegger does not rule out an Obama administration post, and urges the president to press ahead with a health care overhaul that tracks his own failed push on the issue in California.

Leading Senate Democrats, including Robert Menendez (Democrat, New Jersey), the Senate's lone Latino, had opposed trying to pass Dream as an amendment, arguing that it would hold up passage of the defence bill, and that a failed push would only make it harder to get Dream passed later.

Daschle supported President Bill Clinton's failed push for universal health care in 1993, and he recently wrote a book proposing an expansion of health coverage largely through private insurers.

For those times when you encounter particular individuals who, without fail, "push your buttons," no matter how hard you try to remain centered, remember that when you start getting all worked up, those people are your "Peace Teachers".

If all else fails, push your way through or go with the crowd.

Knight Vinke has called for a shake-up of the board in the event the deal fails, pushing to make it "more independent and robust".

"Unfortunately, the international community, which had pushed for openness, failed to push for regulation of the financial sector, and the governments were too inexperienced to appreciate the dangers of an unregulated financial market," Gilpin concludes.

First, the president failed to push through Congress a comprehensive climate and clean energy bill as he promised he would.