Sentence examples for pushing for legislative from inspiring English sources

Rita Swan, the co-founder of Children's Healthcare is a Legal Duty, has been involved since the late 1990s in pushing for legislative change in Oregon.

Politico reported on Thursday that companies like Facebook and are now "holding fire" on the hill when it comes to pushing for legislative reform.

Judges have since also blocked his revamp of teacher tenure rules and a change of the state retirement system (the administration has appealed the rulings and is pushing for legislative action should they stand).

Lobbyists and economists in Washington assume that he will raise the issue in his State of the Union address in January, then spend a year or two promoting the principle without backing a specific proposal or pushing for legislative action.

To afford the AFA credit which it probably doesn't deserve, we could perhaps root the boycott in discomfort with a global conglomerate, the representatives of which nobody has elected, openly pushing for legislative and social change.

It marked the 45th shooting on a school campus this year, according to Everytown for Gun Safety, a group pushing for legislative reforms to reduce gun violence.

Instead of rival corporations, he envisions a business world in which companies band together to push for legislative changes and to raise standards -- for workers, for the environment.

A new assembly would push for legislative powers and might call for Kosovo's independence, or start drafting a constitution -- a symbolic but potentially embarrassing gesture.

Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the Senate's No. 2 Democrat, who leads the committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, also said he would hold hearings and push for legislative action.

Mr. Abe has pushed for legislative changes that would give the government greater control over the central bank, including the power to fire the bank's governor if it does not bend to the government's will.

Other lawmakers have announced that they intend to push for legislative solutions to the problems in the mutual fund industry, but some commission officials say those efforts could lose steam if the agency takes vigorous action first.