Sentence examples similar to push through approval from inspiring English sources

Two weeks ago, Democrats pushed through approval of nearly $9 billion in financing for a high-speed rail project from Los Angeles to San Francisco that polls suggest has grown increasingly unpopular since it was approved by voters in 2008.

Not long after, the government pushed through approval of the Bezeq-Yes merger on an accelerated timeline and over the objections of officials who questioned both the rush and the lack of consideration for the interests of consumers, according to an account in Haaretz.

Towards this end he was instrumental in pushing through approval of the Line Item Veto Act of 1996, which gave the president the power to veto individual expenditures.

He voted against public review of hard rock mining on public lands and for legislation pushing through approval of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.

"This is one of the most important recommendations we have," General Chiarelli said, though he added that "this will be a real tough one" to push through to approval.

Investors will be reluctant to commit themselves without a big shift in public opinion or pledges from governments to push through planning approval or defray the cost of any delays.

He replaced Conservative Stephen Harper, who had hectored the White House for years in a failed bid to push through U.S. approval for the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

and pushed through fierce resistance.

A "strategic entities foreign-investment law" was pushed through, tightening approval procedures.

Now, the forces appear poised for a showdown: earth-moving equipment is already at work on the site of a planned 51-acre megamall that its opponents feel was improperly pushed through the approval process last November.

The Republican platform committee pushed through the approval of a draft celebrating President Bush's record and agenda yesterday, but the process left both liberals and conservatives in the party grumbling over novel tactics like limiting access to the text and the names of the roughly 110 committee members.