Sentence examples for readiness to push from inspiring English sources

Andrea Moriah, Jerusalem James Carroll ("A shared Jerusalem," Views, July 28) writes that "President Obama has replaced the Bush policy of hands-off with a gloves-off readiness to push all parties hard".

The revival has come just in time, with golf's next generation of stars, the Rory McIlroys and Anthony Kims of this world, announcing their readiness to push the old guard aside.

Instead, he said the Indo-Asian economies displayed a "readiness to push it further, expand its possibilities, that stood in sharp contrast with what we see in parts of Europe".

The height of the drama isn't in Picard's relative and incremental well-being, it's in the resurgent and conscious presence of the past — which includes the painful history of Picard's people, the acknowledgment of slights and resentments, and the readiness to push back (at least verbally) against unrepresentative and unfair authority.

When President George W. Bush came to office, Abdullah again showed his readiness to push against his U.S. allies.

They are a question, too, of a regime's readiness and ability to push back, to meet opponents with resistance, maneuver and firepower.

More fundamental is the possibility that direct persuasion, whatever the degree of readiness to change, pushes the patient into a defensive position.

Martelly's administration uses the slogan "Ayiti pare pou biznis" (Haiti ready for business) to push Haiti's readiness to trade but activists deride it as a race to the bottom.

His readiness will be tested Thursday against the Texas Rangers, who beat Pettitte, 4-2, to push the Yankees into a tie for first place with Boston in the American League East.

Republicans aren't willing to invest the money necessary and are wary of early childhood education, and Democrats are reluctant to push teacher unions harder to achieve more rigorous evaluation and greater readiness to remove weak teachers.

Diplomats from all sides have voiced readiness to stay in Lausanne through the Persian New Year holiday, Nowruz, which begins next weekend, but western negotiators are reluctant to push the first deadline beyond the end of the month.