Workers have been placing long lengths of containment booms around the oil as winds and waves push it toward shore.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

She worked with Martin Luther King Junior in the push for civil rights for blacks in the nineteen fifties and sixties.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

It was June sixth,nineteen forty-four, the start of the Allied invasion of Europe, the final push to defeat Nazi Germany.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

Historians say the yellow press was so powerful it helped push the United States into war with Spain in eighteen ninety-eight.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

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

VOA: special.2010.03.17

Some experts think the president could be making his last major push to get a health care bill through Congress.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

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

VOA: special.2009.05.27

Yet she had to push to make herself heard as a woman among mostly male civil rights leaders.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

As we reported in our last program, slavery supporters failed to push through Congress a bill to make Kansas a slave state.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

Early reviews suggest the new CD will push the punk rock trio right back to the top.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

Then a long wooden stick is used to slowly push a heavy cover down on the bags.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

The Sri Lankan army has been leading what it called a "final push" against Tamil Tiger rebels.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

But others note that Jupiter's powerful gravitational field can just as easily send an object into Earth's path as push it deeper into space.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

She was trying to gather strength and courage to push through a mass of busy shoppers.

VOA: special.2009.09.05