Sentence examples for pressing state from inspiring English sources

They are pressing state and federal lawmakers to make it easier for people to shoot other people.

The environmental group Riverkeeper has meanwhile joined forces with Ulster County, pressing state officials to declare the Lower Esopus an "impaired" waterway eligible for protection.

Executives at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana are pressing state legislators to raise the cigarette tax to subsidize basic coverage.

He also is pressing state legislators to renew the 2002 law that gave him control over the city schools; the law expires on June 30.

Mr. Paterson, meanwhile, may now be able to cast his exit from the race — to focus on the budget, debt and other pressing state issues — as "a considerably more noble decision than a merely expedient decision," Mr. Birdsell said.

It is pressing state and local police to join in an ill-conceived program called Secure Communities, which sends arrested people's fingerprints through federal immigration databases, turning all local officers and jails into arms of the Department of Homeland Security.

Aware of the risks, Chinese regulators are pressing state-run banks to raise billions of dollars in capital to cushion any downturn — a task that could be complicated by any perceptions among private investors that the banks are exposed to a lot of risky debt.

But the Obama administration is pressing states to adopt them too fast, he said.

Now the Obama administration is pressing states to get public school and higher education authorities working together.

While Mr. Bush and his war council were pressing states to change their ways, the crisis forced members of the president's own national security team to change theirs, too.

Dr. Novello's tough stance comes as President Clinton is pressing states to adopt strict regulations for reporting medical errors, after a recent report that found that medical errors kill hundreds of thousands of people each year.