There has been a push for schools to offer more healthful snacks and lunch choices and fewer sugary drinks.

VOA: special.2010.03.17

In recent years there has been a strong push for local and state governments to ban public smoking.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

This week, President Obama continued to push for health reform as debate over his plan intensified.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

It seemed he was not going to push for reforms after all.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

Secretary Clinton said the United States and South Africa will work more closely to push for reforms in Zimbabwe.

VOA: standard.2009.08.16

Clinton said U.S.officials will begin meeting directly with Burma's military leaders to push for democracy because sanctions alone had not worked.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

Smoking a cigarette outside Science Po's library one evening, said she backed the government's push for other grandes ecoles to open up.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

He said Mexico should push for labor reforms and better education to give its youth viable, legal alternatives to the drug trade.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

U.S.lawmakers are expected to push for new tests and new regulations after holding a series of hearings last week on auto safety.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

He said Russia will none-the-less continue to push for domestic energy efficiency and cuts in carbon emissions.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

An aide to President Abbas accused the Obama administration of backtracking on its earlier promises to push for a freeze on settlement construction.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

After that in cooperation with the U.N.Secretary General, the regional players should have to push for a real inclusive democratic transition in Burma."

VOA: standard.2009.05.31

(SAYING) Mely says that while the push for immigration reform is difficult, it should not be impossible.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

While French Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo called the U.S.stance extremely encouraging, other European politicians have called on Washington to push for deeper emissions cuts.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

He says the journalists' association will continue to push for repeal of the law.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

Sports programs and movie channels are expected to drive the push for 3D television.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

Health-care reform has been President Barack Obama's top domestic priority, and the president is making an energetic final push for support, including a recent visit to Ohio.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

President Obama has said he would be willing to speak with Cuba's leaders, but would maintain the embargo as leverage to push for democratic change and an improvement in human rights.

VOA: standard.2009.04.07

Polls show public support for Mr.Obama's push for health-care reform has weakened in recent weeks, and the constant drumbeat of criticism at the town hall meetings has fed the perception that the political momentum for reform has slowed.

VOA: standard.2009.08.12

At the spring meetings, many development activists will push for the IMF and World Bank to issue funds to poor countries as grants rather than loans, which they say could lead to a second debt crisis in Africa.

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

"And we are going to win in November and President Obama will be a one-term president!" After more than a year of debate, the president is equally determined to make one last push for health care, including a recent stop in Ohio.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

The president has used appearances in St.Louis,and earlier this week in Philadelphia, to appeal for public support in advance of a hoped for vote in the House of Representatives, a crucial step in the final stage of his push for a health care bill.

VOA: standard.2010.03.10

Officials here are not volunteering any ringing endorsements of the way President Karzai is handling his job, but they are rejecting the notion that the United States and European allies will push for creation of a new executive post in the Afghan government - a prime minister or a similar mandate - to dilute Mr.Karzai's powers.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

Push hard and fast. Aim for a rate of about one hundred compressions each minute.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

Runners push the bobsleigh for a distance of about fifty meters.

VOA: special.2010.02.10