Sentence examples for pressing to increase from inspiring English sources

The panel's Democrats, backed by organized labor, are pressing to increase proposed amounts.

And the Prosperous Justice Party, despite its minor gain of less than one percentage point, is pressing to increase the number of ministers it has in the coalition government to four from three.

Whether partial lignin extraction and hemicellulose removal during pretreatment of wheat straw during hydrothermal pretreatment [ 39, 41, 45] followed by pressing to increase dry matter (DM) content [ 49] has a negative effect on enzymatic digestibility [ 50- 52] could be speculated but are not quantified in this study.

Pressing to increase its influence would not necessarily help Hezbollah now because it would play into Sunni fears and bring protesters into the street, said Elias Muhanna, a professor at Brown University who analyzes Lebanese politics on his blog, Qifa Nabki.

Consequently, industry officials are pressing to substantially increase annual funding, closer to the $420 million a year that rival New York provides.

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In fact, George W. Bush's call for pressing OPEC to increase production may be the best strategy.

MPs have begun lobbying the Department for Work and Pensions, pressing it to increase the amount it makes available to families unable to pay for funeral costs.

There was universal acceptance at the last housing committee meeting of a pressing need to increase the supply of housing for older people.

As the sovereign debt crisis drags on, regulators are pressing banks to increase their capital cushion, part of a broader effort to restore faith in the financial markets.

Administrators at Warwick confirmed they were pressing BP to increase access to the archive which is believed to contain decades of valuable knowledge and insight into "green" power technologies.