U.S. business groups have also been pushing energetically for talks to begin, arguing that the economic impact could be substantial because the overall volume of trade is so large.
LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday defended his handling of a contentious and ultimately doomed $12 billion bid by the media conglomerate owned by Rupert Murdoch to take control of Britain's most powerful and lucrative pay-television network, and offered new backing to an embattled cabinet minister who had pushed energetically for the bid's approval.
The first law officer of the land was at the University of Notre Dame to lend his weight to an argument being pushed energetically by the conservative thinktanks of the nation: that the churches are owed a great debt for the liberty of the modern world.
"Endangered Species" by Carl van Ruin (a k a Alvin Curran), a slight essay in rising arpeggios patiently played by Milana Strezeva, was followed by John Root pushing energetically through Ralph Shapey's "Sonata Profondo," an exuberant mix of Webern, ragtime and the composer's own bravado, though surely with the wrong title for music so lean and light-textured.
With all the troubling implications, why did Mr. Woon and other Hong Kong officials push so energetically for the House to pass the bill?
Gov. Martin O'Malley, a Democrat, proposed the bill and has pushed it energetically, in the fashion of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York.
A colossal version of the ball appears in a video, filmed by Mr. Téllez in a Venezuelan hospital, in which patients energetically push it from one ward to another and finally over the walls of the institution.
As this human tragedy was unfolding, western politicians and bankers harried Russia's leaders to push ahead more energetically with the "reform" and privatisation treatment producing it: a transition in many areas to a premodern age.
In Mr. Lott's "call to action" in what he called "a great and worthy struggle," he said his party must energetically push its agenda and protect Mr. Bush's priorities, not let the Democrats amass too much power in the reorganization of the Senate or regain the majority in 2002.
One of the people pushing them most energetically is Michael Chertoff, the former Secretary of Homeland Security.
