Sentence examples for failed to push for from inspiring English sources

It's really the whole political class that has failed to push for transitional justice.

His critics complained that he failed to push for solutions to old problems.

When Mr Blair failed to push for PR, Mr Ashdown's dream of a grand coalition between the two centre-left parties collapsed.

The dental profession has resisted efforts to allow midlevel providers to deliver this kind of care, and the government has so far failed to push for the change.

Nevertheless, Keene says that all of these gains are fragile, because President Obama — who in his first term has not only failed to push for gun control but has signed legislation extending gun rights — has been hiding his true convictions.

"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.

The summit will be only a partial success, however, if Bush fails to push for greater democracy.

Despite the scale of the SNP's victory, the party has still failed to push support for independence above 30%.

Mr. Reilly said the White House had left Ms. Jackson out on a limb when it failed to push hard for the cap-and-trade climate change bill that passed the House in 2009 but stalled in the Senate last year.

He conceded, however, that the Global Network Initiative would be meaningless if companies cited their participation in the framework but failed to push actively for a more open Internet while expanding operations in countries like China.

In June 1997, environmental groups voiced anger because, in their view, Vice President Gore had failed to push hard enough for tougher air pollution standards and for negotiating deep cuts in worldwide emissions of greenhouse gases.