Sentence examples for ministers pushing for from inspiring English sources

Hard-line ­Brexiteers and those ministers pushing for a softer Brexit are both threatening to resign if they do not get their way.

The home secretary, who has been widely assumed to harbour leadership ambitions, was reported to be one of the ministers pushing for serious consideration of a no-deal exit.

This second take includes expenditure data and suggests the biggest boost in Q2 came from net trade - that will be music to the ears of ministers pushing for a rebalancing of the economy away from Britain's long-standing dependence on consumer demand.

Senior cabinet ministers pushing for a softer Brexit – including the chancellor, Philip Hammond, and the home secretary, Amber Rudd – also expressed their satisfaction that a deal had been done, which should allow the UK and EU to move on to trade talks.

Several ministers pushed for further military action, and one warned of punishment for the vigilantes.

Rather than demanding a halt to American action against Afghanistan, as many of their people might have wished, the ministers pushed for assurances that the American-led campaign against terrorism would not spill over to other Muslim countries.

However, the speech will raise the prospect of a review of the UK's carbon targets that would see Osborne and other influential Conservative ministers push for a watering down of the previously agreed carbon budgets.

However, the CBI, which has long been a supporter of the government's austerity drive and promises to cut the deficit, warned that ministers' push for rebalancing was taking longer than expected.

It was all very reminiscent of Labour's years, when these ministers pushed for more and more oppressive legislation to control and monitor the average citizen, on the grounds that massive surveillance and coercion were the only answers to Islamist terror.

Singham previously worked at Legatum, where he was said to have helped Boris Johnson and Michael Gove draft a letter to the prime minister pushing for a hard Brexit.

"Here is a prime minister pushing for measures he knows and says aren't going to work — not only not going to work but [are] bad for the economy," said Vicky Pryce, a British economist who was born and raised in Greece.