Sentence examples for pressing for years from inspiring English sources
Republicans are lining up behind an amendment that would effectively create a national conceal-carry law, a goal that gun groups have been pressing for years.
But the tourism ministry has been pressing for years to rehabilitate golf to lure rich foreigners and give them a reason to stay and spend.
American and European labor unions have been pressing for years to communicate more directly with China's state-run union monopoly and the country's Communist Party leaders.
Industry executives have been pressing for years to get relief from environmental laws -- most notably the Clean Air Act and land use restrictions.
The Medicines Company has been pressing for years for a legislative solution, spending more than $17 million since 2005 on prominent lobbyists, including former House majority leaders Richard Gephardt, a Democrat, and Dick Armey, a Republican.
Investors in the News Corporation have been pressing for years for the company to arrange a clear succession plan for Mr. Murdoch, who is 80 years old, and speculation about his future is rife now that the company has suffered a significant blow to its reputation.
The strong showing of the French neo-fascist, Jean-Marie Le Pen, in the first round of France's presidential election seemed a new endorsement of the racism and xenophobia that the 73-year-old has been pressing for 30 years.
Mukerji, the Indian ambassador to the UN, said his country had been pressing for several years for agreement on a document that will be the basis of negotiations.
Some environmental groups have been pressing for several years to curtail salmon aquaculture in Maine, saying that fish or diseases escaping from pens at the floating fish farms could threaten native stocks.
At least one Republican senator has been pressing for four years for passage of a bill that would require emergency rooms to provide the pills to rape victims, but it has never been voted out of the Health Committee, in part because Catholic hospitals have fiercely opposed it.
Business has been pressing for change for years.
