Sentence examples for push to portray from inspiring English sources

"There's a push to portray this as domestic terrorism.

2 01 p.m. | Updated President Obama has begun a major advertising push to portray Mitt Romney, his presumptive Republican rival in November, as an uncaring corporate titan who is concerned more with profits than with workers, reviving attacks on Mr. Romney's career at Bain Capital that began in earnest during the Republican primary.

Pyongyang's rhetorical outbursts against massive US and South Korean war drills and UN sanctions over the North's February nuclear test were seen, in part, as a push to portray Kim at home as a respected military commander on the world stage.

He insisted Miller meet Roy Brewer, Hollywood's most powerful union leader, who pushed him to portray union corruption as couched in communism.

I strongly believe that senior military and intelligence officials who pushed analysts to portray the Islamic State as "weaker than the analysts believe it actually is" and to "paint an overly rosy picture about how well the U.S.-led military efforts to defeat the group are going" are obviously motivated by reasons other than honorably serving our country.

But the two bits of news taken together could suggest a different story, one in which HTC isn't seeing the upside of devoting too many resources to Microsoft's mobile platform, despite a big push by Redmond to portray HTC as a flagship smartphone partner pretty much on par with Nokia, with whom MS has a very cosy relationship.

Mrs. Clinton landed some surgical strikes, but aides pointed to a couple of moments, in particular, that they hope to push through Election Day to portray Mr. Trump as a cold businessman who has fleeced average Americans.

With less than a minute remaining in the first half, Simspon tried to portray a slight push by Browns tight end Evan Moore as if he were hit by an 18-wheel truck.

For their part, Republicans pushed back on efforts by Democrats to portray them friends of Wall Street and business as a whole, intent on blocking tighter regulation.

Even the police force, much despised by Mr. Mubarak's opponents for trying to quash the protests that pushed him from power, has sought to portray itself as standing with the people in the new era.

She says "Spencer holds a unique space in British Modernism, as an artist who pushed and tested figurative painting using different styles to portray various subject matters.