But when John F. Harris reported in The Washington Post that Madeleine K. Albright, then the ambassador to the United Nations, was considered a "second tier" candidate for secretary of state, women's groups erupted with anger and pushed strenuously for her to be appointed as the first woman to hold the post.
has been pushing strenuously for a robust public option, arguing that tying it to Medicare rates gives it the best chance of competing against private insurers.
When complex, potentially dangerous financial instruments called derivatives came into vogue, unsung heroes, like government official Brooksley Born, pushed strenuously for their regulation, but the powers that be were so opposed that in 2000 Congress passed a bill specifically prohibiting that from happening.
In the end, would Berger suggest marketers actually attempt to push less strenuously to gain popularity for a product?
Elected officials from South Dakota and elsewhere have pushed back strenuously at the idea of sending their water downstream.
Slow down, it's not worth pushing yourself strenuously when it's hot outside; things that require a lot of physical effort can be done early in the morning or later in the day.
Defense attorneys have strenuously pushed back, saying that most people who joined protests that day were demonstrating legally and that only a small group peeled off to vandalize.
The violin part, played here by Michael Tree, consistently lies in the instrument's higher registers, where it is strenuously pushed and stretched.
Tony Blair, desperate to restore his multilateral bona fides with his own citizens and with the leaders of other European nations, has lobbied for the largest possible U.N. role; Secretary Powell has also been pushing, though less strenuously.
Inés Salazar, a Venezuelan soprano, was an exceedingly lovely Tosca, though some rough patches and faulty pitch suggested that she was pushing her bright voice too strenuously.
So strenuously has the governor pushed the measure, and so closely has he become linked to it, that a defeat would most likely curb his influence, and might even invite a primary challenge from a younger generation of Democrats.
