Sentence examples for push to erect from inspiring English sources

The Queens historian Vincent Seyfried said that despite this push to erect apartments, some Brooklyn backhouses still survive; landlords simply moved front houses to the back of the lot when they built a tenement facing the street.

At a push, the government could try to erect a few obstacles in a hurry, as it did when Pfizer bid for AstraZeneca in 2014, and hope the bidder goes away.

The activists pushed the state of Georgia to erect an official roadside sign to mark the site of the killings, which was put up in 1999.

One is Ken Oringer, the chef at Clio and other restaurants in Boston, who has pushed for, and just received, permission to erect a bronze statue of Child in the city.

Corless and other Tuam activists have organised a committee to erect a monument to the dead and push for a state-funded investigation and excavation of the site.

While this move appears to be commercial reasons, it might be fit well with a long-term plan to erect a paywall around the whole Murdoch empire, which would push charging for content to a whole new level.

"If the Democrats do succeed in pushing through national health insurance, they really should set aside a little extra money to erect a statue to Pat Toomey," the Republican commentator David Frum observed.

Essentially, Musk wants to erect a really long pneumatic tube of the kind that used to shoot mail around office buildings, and then deploy air to float the freight instead of pushing it.

The founders plan, eventually, to erect 1,000.

Similar worries prompted the government to erect the encircling fence.

It's not that they're trying to erect roadblocks.