He and Independent Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman had worked hard to push a global climate crisis-premised 2010 carbon cap-and-trade bill, only to see its prospects for passage swept away in a Republican House cleaning.
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He was presented with a hard choice, return home or push for the summit.
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Obviously, if you push a facility too hard you also increase the risk of an accident.
It was disappointing for Durham with all the rain over the first two days but for us to be able to push hard enough to get a result was a fantastic effort and proves we are playing some excellent cricket.
He has become a hawk on offshore oil drilling and would push hard for the building of new nuclear power plants.
President Obama appears unlikely to push the Justice Department to take a hard line against state-sanctioned dispensaries, but a Republican successor could easily view things differently.
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One familiar explanation is that young women push hard at first to forge a career, but then bump up against a glass ceiling kept in place by a combination of antique male attitudes and the complication of organising child care.
Ireland's failing government adds to the doubt, because it could find it hard to push through an austerity budget before a new election (see article).
If the authorities push reform hard, much good can come in a critical step to truly reviving our credit markets.
Either way, it will be hard for a party that is chafing at the spending limits to push, credibly, for a big tax cut.
You have to try and push for sponsorship, but it's a bit hard for the British lads because it isn't that big of a sport over here.
You can push them as hard as you want, outside of a World Cup gs race.
The states could push for expanded investigative powers, but they would likely face a hard slog in court.
The economy has been a major push factor for residents in the Frost Belt, particularly those in hard-hit areas like Michigan.
No-one should be surprised to hear the abolition of ID cards is also seen as a notable success, albeit one the Lib Dems did not have to push too hard to get on the statute book as their Conservative partners were equally committed to getting rid of them.
This will push Mr Sarkozy into hard talk on immigration, and keep open the possibility of a first-round shock.
Why not push digital music and video stored on a PC or set-top box with a hard drive to any TV or stereo system in the house?
The cry was answered partly by a new breed of mouse made specifically for navigating virtual worlds. 3D Connexion's SpaceNavigator, for instance, features a knob you can push in any direction to fly around, with your speed depending on how hard you push.
They knew enough to understand how hard they could push without breaking things (the rate of return they demanded would soon ossify into a ritualized expectation of stable growth rates, a big enabler of the rise of a middle class that could basically withdraw from the risk frontier).
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