Sentence examples for pushing significant from inspiring English sources

With Congress in Democratic hands and his political capital all but spent by the Iraq war, Mr. Bush has scant hope of pushing significant domestic legislation through Congress.

It was as governor of New York that Roosevelt realized, she writes, that "only by 'appealing directly to the people,' by 'going over the heads' of party leaders, did he have any chance of pushing significant reform through the legislature," and that the press was an invaluable tool in this process.

Disregarding these advances, both the House and the Senate are pushing significant cuts to the 2012 Obama request for global health funding.

It also pushes significant events through the daily outrage cycle very quickly.

But the coalition government, pulled by conflicting interests and lacking clear leadership, has not pushed significant new reforms to liberalise the economy.

Meanwhile, new research from an independent thinktank, the Social Market Foundation, to be published this week, warns that universal credit will push significant numbers of households into debt and suggests that instead of boosting individuals' financial resilience, it will worsen their financial circumstances.

Experts say the key is whether the government that emerges from the December elections can push significant reforms through the regional parliaments in Serbia and Montenegro and whether the governments can hold together through the pain of reforms.

The pattern is slightly blurred in the cod species because, being adaptable and successful fish, Murray cod push significant distances into upland habitats, while the now endangered trout cod stray (or did stray, before their decline) well down the upland/lowland transition zone, which can be extensive in Murray-Darling rivers.

The hockey team's owner, Charles Wang, has for several years been pushing for significant upgrades to the 40-year-old Coliseum or for a new building when the Islanders' lease expires, in 2015.

Rangers' board has been asked to call an extraordinary meeting with the aim of pushing through significant change.

The apparent improvement in the MPSR after this is artifactual because the mainlobe dominates the FOV pushing the significant sidelobes outside the FOV.