Mr. Dumitrescu pressed, successfully, for far wider access.
After years of repression, regions pressed successfully for as much freedom as possible.
President Obama strongly supports an extension, but Republicans have typically balked, and have pressed successfully for less generous benefits.
Mr. Leonhardt said that he doubted he could have pressed successfully for an interview with a national security focus.
Nor, they say, has it been recognized that he has pressed successfully for diplomacy in dealing with the nuclear threats posed by Iran and North Korea.
It ended only when federal prosecutors charged some Daley aides, including Robert A. Sorich, his former patronage chief, with corrupting the hiring process in one of many honest-services cases that federal prosecutors here have pressed successfully.
Mr. Cameron pressed successfully for Friday's statement to include a veiled threat that European Union aid might be a stake if Egypt fails to observe minimum standards on human rights.
At the E.U. summit meeting last week, for example, the Spanish prime minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, pressed, successfully, to be one of those giving the final news conference, even though it was Herman Van Rompuy, the new full-time president of the European Council, who led the meeting.
Then the CIA and Clinton pressed successfully for Plan B: to overthrow Assad.
A day earlier in Singapore, Abe pressed successfully for the U.S. to reaffirm it would come to Japan's defense if China threatened the contested Senkaku/Daiyu islands in the East China Sea, even though the United States recognizes neither Japanese nor Chinese sovereignty over the islands and seeks a peaceful resolution of the dispute.
