Sentence examples for pushed for approving from inspiring English sources

FDA managers pushed for approving the devices anyway, allegedly "ordering, coercing, and intimidating FDA physicians and scientists to recommend approval, and then retaliating when the physicians and scientists refused to go along".

In this case, the medical profession pushed for an approved version to be marketed, rationalizing that if a seizure occurred in the context of a patient taking an FDA-approved alternative, "at least you know it wasn't because of a local compounding pharmacy error".[ 29] Another significant example has been the rapid growth of the so-called 'bioidentical postmenopausal hormone therapy' market.

Western lawmakers who have pushed for years to approve lands projects important to their regions seized on the opportunity to include them in the package.

CIBC and TD Bank both have large energy portfolios and have pushed for the U.S. government to approve final construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would link the Canadian oil sands in Alberta through the middle of the United States to Texas and the Gulf of Mexico.

Last December, they pushed for a new election method that was approved, along narrow racial lines, in a citywide referendum.

He has pushed for hate crime legislation, and a bill, approved in the House on Thursday, now appears headed for passage.

Democrats and some Republicans from the New York region have been pushing for Congress to approve as much federal aid as possible before it adjourns for the year, partly because they fear there will be less urgency to act as the months go by.

Then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau had wisely considered pushing for Canadians to approve the constitution in a referendum but in an act of statesmanship to salvage the deal he ultimately relented to provincial opposition against it.

And he pushed for allowing the Iraqis on the council to designate ministers and be given the power to approve the national budget.

In 1974, voters approved a controversial referendum allowing for an increased occupational tax to fund mass transit, which was pushed for by then-mayor Harvey Sloane.

Johnson pushed for Medicare.