"push" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This attitude pushed Congress last fall into overhauling the nation's immigration laws.
- His action pushed Congress the next year to permit combinations of insurance, commercial banking and investment banking that the financial services industry had long sought.
- So there are strong lobbying pressures that are pushing Congress in the direction away from what most people feel is healthy patent legislation.
- Mrs. Johnson had one major cause during the Johnson presidency, highway beautification, and her husband pushed Congress into passing legislation to further the program.
- Mr. Fox has said he will push Congress in the coming year to open up the electricity and natural-gas markets.
- The war could conceivably push Congress into demanding more from the Administration.
- The Amish have upset opponents of child labor by pushing Congress for an exemption based largely on religious grounds.
- Early October, Congress members, such as John Adams, and colonial governments pushed Congress in creating a navy, however small.
- The Bush administration pushed Congress today for a broad vote to authorize the president to use force against Iraq.
- Why isn't he using that same power to push Congress into backing the foreign-aid promises he's been making to help the desperately poor?
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