Sentence examples for push for agreement from inspiring English sources

House and Senate negotiators held a four-hour meeting on Tuesday in what they described as a final push for agreement on the drug bill, which would authorize the biggest expansion of Medicare in its 38-year history.

While the Gulf states were expected to push for agreements that would bind the United States to come to their defence in the event of attack – similar to commitments between Nato members – the White House has made clear such a step would face resistance on Capitol Hill.

History suggests that the United States cannot afford to be too meddlesome, as President Clinton proved to be when he called the Camp David summit and pushed for agreement on the most sensitive issues on a short timetable.

In fact, they were doing more than that as a key sub-segment of leaders were actually negotiating with other leaders, arm twisting, and pushing for agreement. .

Democrats continued to push for an agreement that would let them share the presidency of the Senate.

Conservatives The Tories claim to have led the greenest government ever and promise to push for global agreement on tackling climate change.

The move comes ahead of next month's G8 summit in Northern Ireland, where Cameron will push for an agreement aimed at clamping down on tax evasion and avoidance.

He put off planned public plenary sessions, which risk being volatile, and gave the floor over to closed meetings in a last push for an agreement.

He said the Conservatives had staged a back-stage "push" for an agreement that would bring Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP leader, into the high-profile TV debates, making her "the only Scottish representative on our screens".

London Mayor Boris Johnson has lent his backing for a push for international agreement on the need for a kill switch.

"[The EU] will push for an agreement on a transition to market prices, negotiated as a discount to European prices," Neff told Forbes.com.