Sentence examples for failed to push through from inspiring English sources

On the international stage, Mr. Chirac failed to push through ambitious language in the Constitution of the European Union that would have given its 25 members more joint power.

The cap-and-trade bill he failed to push through during his first term is a notable failure. .

And it has failed to push through any major tax reforms.

Nick Clegg must rue the day he failed to push through House of Lords reform.

The administration and its allies in Congress failed to push through big tax cuts for corporations.

The continent's leaders have largely failed to push through the structural reforms that could make their economies more competitive.

But he fails to push through the Dream Act, allowing illegal immigrants to stay if they arrived in America as children and graduated from high school.

But if Mr. Papandreou fails to push through the new austerity measures that Parliament is expected to begin debating next week — with a confidence vote scheduled for Tuesday following a cabinet reshuffle last week — it could jeopardize the second rescue package that Greece needs in order to carry it through next year.

In the present climate of near-recession, sticking to its balanced-budget target for 2015 is foolish.Germans often respond by invoking worries about "moral hazard": the fear that, if they were to relax their fiscal stance, countries like France and Italy would fail to push through much-needed but politically challenging structural reforms.

The Solidarity-led coalition government has worked well, but a bit too cosily: Poland now lacks a proper opposition, the clear-out of the communist nomenklatura has been slow and, after starting bravely with its Big Bang in January, the government has failed to push privatisation through fast enough.

He has tried before — and failed — to push immigration changes through Congress, where political divisions on the issue run much deeper than party lines.