Sentence examples for program pushing from inspiring English sources

He was alarmed specifically about using more than half of the $4 billion negotiated for improving aging VA infrastructure for funding the Choice program, pushing more veterans into the private system.

LATER, over lunch in the cafeteria downstairs, the Sisters of St. Francis discussed the delicate dance they face in their shareholder advocacy program — pushing corporations to change their actions, while not needling them so much on sensitive issues like executive pay that bigwigs like Mr. Blankfein, at Goldman Sachs, are not willing to meet with them.

IBM stopped their remote-working program, pushing thousands of employees from core groups that support their brands back to the office.

Likewise, 2016 saw Chicago's Divvy program pushing further into the suburbs with an $800,000 expansion.

His parents run the local funeral parlor and his uncle, the crematorium, whose furnace "had been used during the Great Leap Forward" (ironically, the Great Leap Forward was another program pushing rapid growth, begun by Chairman Mao in 1958, that oppressed the rural Chinese and brought about the starvation of approximately 40 million people during the Great Chinese Famine).

The one-year program pushes you a little more than a two-year program," he said.

Sixty billion euros under an existing lending program pushes the total to near $1 trillion.

Nowhere is it more apparent than Medicare, the sturdy social insurance program pushed through Congress by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Moreover, says Aurélie Mathieu, a co-designer of the Brick vase, the program "pushes you to be professional and really efficient.

The proposal comes after Finance Minister Paul Martin, a Liberal, announced a tax plan, partly in response to a program pushed by the opposition Canadian Alliance.

One midlevel Microsoft employee said that a broker at Salomon Smith Barney, the firm hired by Microsoft to administer its option program, pushed him to take such risks.