Sentence examples for pushing for improvements from inspiring English sources

The plan is also likely to find favor with the Regents, who have been pushing for improvements in New York City's worst schools.

The Greenwich police chief, Peter Robbins, has asked Gov. John G. Rowland to get involved in pushing for improvements to the Merritt Parkway.

"We will be much better off pushing for improvements at the state level than surrendering to the chemical industry's preferences here and now".

That makes holding a job a higher priority than holding the line on pay and benefits, much less pushing for improvements, Mr. Masik said.

A menu of deficit-reduction options has been put on the table by San Francisco Planning & Urban Research (SPUR), a group that has been at the forefront of pushing for improvements to the city's transit system.

Yet human rights activists, intellectuals and released prisoners like Mr. Mourad say they distrust America deeply, seeing it working more for its own larger strategic interests than pushing for improvements in civil rights for ordinary Syrians.

As for the tasks at hand – two South American opponents as preparation for Mexico – Klinsmann is pushing for improvement in both performance and mentality.

Sitting in her office in the school's well-kept 100-year-old building – complete with its old girls' and boys' entrances – Smith says she doesn't attribute the school's transformation to a set of specific measures but to a general change in culture that involved pushing for improvement at every turn.

And then he started pushing for improvement.

Then he started pushing for improvement.

In that role, he pushed for improvements in education.