People can also cause a blockage when they try to clean out their ears, but only push the wax deeper inside.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

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

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

VOA: special.2009.09.29

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

VOA: special.2009.09.05

But retiring Senator George Voinovich of Ohio tells the Washington Post that he plans to help push a bill through the Senate next week.

VOA: special.2010.09.10

"Rather than try to bring a lot of infrastructure to them and expect them to learn how to use the Internet, the idea was to make a technology that even Grandma could use, figuring that Grandma could probably walk up to a box and push a button."

VOA: special.2009.10.12

People use a metal call box with a push-to-talk button to connect to a live operator, as Rose Shuman explains: "You just push a button, a big green button, and that will connect you directly to our operators who are sitting in front of computers, and speak your language.

VOA: special.2009.10.12

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