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

VOA: special.2009.05.27

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

Thousands of red-clad demonstrators converged on Bangkok for what is expected to be a final push to force new elections.

VOA: standard.2009.04.13

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

Republican lawmakers say Democrats are trying to push through a bill without enough time for proper Congressional scrutiny.

VOA: standard.2009.07.29

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

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

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

It was a swift and angry reaction from Israel when the Palestinians said this week they would push unilaterally for the U.N.Security Council to endorse an independent state for them.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

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

"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

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