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"That upset a lot of people," she said, "and there was a big push for a moratorium on teardowns there".

One American official said there was a "big push" to move the talks process forward during the current winter lull in fighting.

"No one in France can say how many blacks live in this country," Louis-Georges Tin, one of the founders of CRAN, the Conseil Représentatif des Associations Noires, or the Representative Council of Black Associations, wrote in 2008, when there was a big push to collect racial statistics.

He added: "Under the last Labour government there was a big push to bring people into the senior levels of government, from in particular the private sector … At the same time, over quite a number of years, salaries have been held down.

In painting, there was a big push towards realism.

Franklin: There was a big push a few years ago to legalize the growing of hemp.

"There's a big push right now for the wholesomeness of how small towns operate.

There's a big push from Boxing Day - that's the emotional bit.

Waste vehicles are powered by LNG gas and there is a big push to make council cars more efficient.

And there is a big push for better data retrieval, as travel managers are under pressure to justify every expense.

And in Colorado there's a big push to build a highway and expand business and residential development on contaminated land.