Sentence examples for push to shape from inspiring English sources

The new push to shape up China's banks and financial institutions is in part a response to World Trade Organization rules requiring China to open its banking and insurance markets to foreign investors by 2007.

The Obama administration is facing a liberal revolt in the Senate over two high-priority judicial nominations, potentially jeopardizing its push to shape the federal judiciary in advance of the midterm congressional election.

Coal-using utilities were among the most generous donors to Republicans and Democrats in the last election, and they have pushed hard to shape elements of the Bush administration's approach to energy and the environment.

Mr. McConnell's optimism could not disguise the fact that time was steadily slipping away, and testy leaders of the two parties were pushing hard to shape public perceptions of who was responsible for an impasse that threatened to have serious political repercussions -- and to presage even more consequential fiscal showdowns in the months ahead.

In her new collection of essays, she uses stronger language: feminism has been "abducted" by commercial forces that drain meaning from intimate life, and push both sexes to shape themselves in accordance with the imperatives of male-dominant capitalism.

It was not just people like Mr Romney who were pushing American companies to shape up.

Another well-known crusader for shareholder value, Ralph Whitworth of San Diego-based Relational Investors, has been pushing Sovereign Bancorp to shape up its board governance since last May.

Mr. Oren's role is to shape and push Mr. Netanyahu's point of view in Washington.

This was art trying, in ways not so different from Occupy Wall Street, to come to resistant grips with the ethically embattled world around it and, by doing so, to shape history and push it in new directions.

Nearly from the beginning of the Syrian uprising, Turkey has sought to shape its outcome by pushing Mr. Assad to liberalize the political process.

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