Sentence examples for programmes push from inspiring English sources

Such programmes push down bond yields and encourage investors to buy risky assets.

Other programmes push offenders to engage with their victims and try to make restitution: such "restorative justice" may reduce recidivism by as much as 14 points.

Unemployment and early-retirement programmes pushed up these contributions, and the cost of labour with them.

According to one calculation, the unfunded future cost of these programmes pushes up public debt from 65% of GDP in 2007 to an implicit 250% of GDP.

The story led the main evening news programmes, pushing down the order developments in Ukraine, the Maria Miller controversy and the Oscar Pistorius trial.

But it was refreshing to have one professor on the programme pushing us constantly to "take action, experiment, and iterate".

There are small schemes, such as £2m spent on 18 schools in Sandwell, with an Aces (Academic coaches ensuring success) programme pushing up numbers getting qualifications at 16.

The Chicago School's catastrophic programme pushed almost half the population below the poverty line and left Chile with one of the world's highest rates of inequality.

Exploration write-offs, weaker refining margins and the impact of a huge divestment programme pushed those results – on an underlying cost basis – down to $2.8bn, compared with $3.9bn for the same period in 2012.

When I came back to England, I heard Derek and thought, 'That's for me.' The programme pushes ideas about the place of food in society, and it helps shape the world we live in.

Scientists and environmentalists agree, though, that the effects of floods are made worse by deforestation, building on flood plains and population growth in cities. Africa's famine is made worse by poor land-use policies in some countries, and by, for example, the land confiscation programme pushed through by President Mugabe in Zimbabwe.