Don't forget: half-open doors respond to a vigorous push.
Mr. Sarkozy's efforts increased the pressure from a vigorous push by President Obama to get China and Russia to support a new round of sanctions.
After he arrived in 1672, Louis de Buade, comte de Palluau et de Frontenac, the governor of New France, made a vigorous push into the continental interior.
In 2005 it launched "ecomagination", a vigorous push to invest in green technology and expand sales of products and services with measurably better environmental performance.
When the Wildsights guide caught up to us, she cheerfully extricated us by letting more air out of our tires and giving us a vigorous push.
The most difficult portion of the hike comes early, with a vigorous push up sandstone walls to the Calico Loop saddle.
An old-school Southern populist, Mr. Dawson blames moderation for the party's setbacks and recommends a vigorous push against illegal immigration.
For its part, Bloomingdale's is giving scarves a vigorous push through Get Scarfed, an ad and social media campaign with the store's offerings, giving pointers on how to wear them.
At the height of the gift-giving season, their aggregate taste for diamond-drop earrings, sequin slippers, dome-shape rings, and gold-plated cameras, has given a vigorous push to luxury sales on the Internet.
The heavy oak doors are still knobless and still open with a vigorous push; the hallway walls are still dark red, as are the thickly carpeted stairs, which still guarantee a suitably hushed, reverential ascent.
MEXICO CITY — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the United States by an American contractor serving a 15-year sentence in Cuba for distributing communications equipment there under a State Department program, ending an effort to press the Obama administration into a financial payout and a more vigorous push for his release.
