States like New York and Massachusetts are weighing comparable legislation — sometimes also known as low-profit limited liability or benefit corporations — and efforts are afoot to get federal legislation passed that would lower hurdles to the creation of such companies, including a quiet push to get preferential tax treatment for them.
It grew through the quiet push given it by the platforms on which I wrote.
Always ride a quiet, push button horse/pony when doing your first canter, preferably a comfy one too.
So I keep quiet, pushing my peas around until the impulse subsides.
Angela Merkel, the easterner who is chairwoman of the Christian Democrats, fares badly against Mr. Schröder in polls, but she is resisting Mr. Stoiber's not-so-quiet push to lead the Christian parties into the elections.
At 3 p.m. on Fridays, the streets emptied of traffic, commercial districts cleared out, and quiet contemplation pushed aside the tensions of this hectic, largely working-class city -- tensions aggravated at the time by the al-Aqsa intifada.
After a while, when everything was quiet, she pushed back the sheets and knelt on the bed in her nightdress, looking out the window at the orange sodium lights and a flare of fire somewhere, perhaps from a factory chimney.
The president of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, chosen by the 14-nation bloc as mediator in the Zimbabwean crisis, has maintained a strategy of quiet diplomacy, pushing for negotiations between Zimbabwe's opposition and ruling parties, without criticizing Mr. Mugabe publicly.
Ever since the peace talks between Israel and the PA began and gained speed, Hamas has been quieted down, pushed away from the table, and therefore pushed aside from our minds.
Most of the major improvements in fan technology — oscillating, adjustable heads, three speed settings, and overlapping, propeller-shaped blades, which were much quieter and pushed a greater volume of air — had been introduced by 1930.
Just find a quiet aisle and push off.
