Sentence examples for leadership push from inspiring English sources

In his speech from the Oval Office on Tuesday evening, the president made a tepid down payment on that leadership push, by speaking in generalities about the need for the United States to switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

At the time, the Air Force had prepared itself for racial integration and its leadership pushed hard to make it work.

With the economy surging, it is high time that the political leadership pushes critical reforms in these areas.

Eventually, Mrs. Thatcher's relentless negativism on the European Union and her bullying style of leadership pushed her own party to drive her from office in 1990.

"None of us conservatives are very happy with the leadership pushing this through," said Representative Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican who worked to build opposition to the proposal.

Bahrain's leadership pushed to host the GCC plus 2 because it believes this forum represents the best hope for accomplishing that objective.

But the Chinese leadership pushed back on Friday on the framing of the main issue of the agreement: how to get off fossil fuels.

The new leadership pushed through a reform program designed to attract young voters: it reduced the voting age to 18, legalized abortion within certain limits, and instituted measures to protect the environment.

On the one side is the Democratic leadership, pushing its view that oil companies must be pressed to explore their current holdings and that the nation should pursue more alternative energy sources without opening areas now off limits to drilling.

The House Republican leadership pushed through the vote in the face of solid opposition by a traditional Republican constituency, the nation's retailers, from mighty Wal-Mart to local federations of mom-and-pop stores.

Last month, the antitax Republicans in the House leadership pushed for a vote to extend the moratorium for five years, to 2006, even though the current moratorium had 18 months left and even though hearings on the extension were not scheduled until a week after the vote.