Sentence examples for push to ban from inspiring English sources

Environmental groups have seized on the spill to continue their push to ban offshore drilling.

Asked whether it was reasonable to compare his push to ban most late-term abortions to the movement to abolish slavery, Franks replied: "There's never a perfect comparison.

Council leaders have been irritated, for example, by Mr. Bloomberg's recent comments assuming support for his push to ban smoking in restaurants and bars.

Ukip will push to ban the burqa and sharia courts, Paul Nuttall has said, although he denied the Eurosceptic party was reinventing itself as an anti-Islam party.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital civil rights organization, argued that the tech companies' push to ban white supremacists set a dangerous precedent for free speech online.

In 2005, Mr. Bloomberg managed to sway many Democrats who were impressed by his post-9/11 leadership in rebuilding New York, his against-the-grain push to ban smoking from restaurants and his insistence on raising property taxes and even income taxes on the wealthy.

The SEC sued him last week, accusing him of misleading investors and pushing to ban him from running any public company.

In recent years, Jeff Blackburn, chief counsel at the Innocence Project of Texas, has pushed to ban evidence that does not conform to national scientific standards.

She said that she worried that smoking opponents and the Bloomberg administration, which pushed to ban smoking in restaurants and bars, would make homegrown tobacco their next target.

Maryland anti-immigration groups like Save Our State have also pushed to ban state funding for day labour hiring sites frequented by illegal aliens.

Mr. Moss, an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War, pushed to ban cigarette advertising on radio and television and was an initial sponsor of the Medicaid program.