Sentence examples for pressing for concessions from inspiring English sources

Aid agencies are pressing for concessions.

The airline has been pressing for concessions from the pilots, the only major unionized segment of its work force, so that it can avoid a bankruptcy filing.

The Democrats have been pressing for concessions from the Republicans on two health care fronts: a bill to expand patients' rights in dealing with insurers and legislation to add payments for prescription drugs to the Medicare program for the elderly.

Apple has held a series of meetings with government representatives at both state and national level and is understood to be pressing for concessions before going ahead with such a move.

Those pressing for teachers' concessions insist the changes will improve schools.

Under the Taliban, Ms. Zeithi was exquisitely attuned to her context, pressing for small concessions for women, but never pushing so hard that the Taliban prohibited her from working.

In addition to pressing for union concessions, US Airways has been slashing fares from a number of cities, and is dismantling its hub in Pittsburgh to concentrate on more direct flights from Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Washington.

By some accounts, Sheinberg has been far more bellicose than Wasserman in pressing for economic concessions from the Hollywood unions.

Early this week, top U.S. negotiator Todd Stern was pressing for more substantive concessions from the two emerging superpowers.

But some European countries, led by Germany, have been reluctant to risk worsening ties with Iran, particularly at a time when European diplomats have been pressing it for concessions over its nuclear program.

The crisis eased after the conservative government of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, which has been pressing for a broad reform of public service pensions, made minor concessions this week, hoping to put an end to strikes by hospital, university and transit workers, among others, that have disrupted France since Tuesday.