Example sentences of "to push through the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Jenkins was critical of the way the college governors had tried to push through the change without consulting under-graduates . |
| 2 | He needed a minister with the strength of character , reforming zeal and awareness of technological opportunities to push through the changes in Defence policy that he had in mind to help in the consolidation of his political power . |
| 3 | Labour claims the council is trying to push through the changes quickly to limit negotiations on the principles . |
| 4 | If he does not become Chancellor , he will remain in the news anyway as he attempts to push through the Government 's toughest privatisation yet , British Rail . |
| 5 | This is not so much dangerous ( as it is in a white water kayak ) but , exaggerated as it is by the length of the sea kayak , just plain horrible to push through the water . |
| 6 | The Government has already appointed a legal team in an effort to push through the building proposals . |
| 7 | Most of these rules had to be adopted by the Council on the basis of unanimity and it became difficult , and in many cases impossible , to push through the amount and degree of legislation necessary to achieve the single market . |
| 8 | I have often thought that I should like to push through the House a simple single-clause Bill which would reduce death and injury at a stroke : it would be to insist that road traffic operated with signals in the same way as trains . |
| 9 | But one of the Government 's first moves will be to push through the Health of the Nation White Paper , which William Waldegrave , the then Health Secretary , was forced to shelve before the election . |
| 10 | One magistrate asserted that weak complainants sometimes had their cases dismissed because they were unable to push through the crowd which blocked the doorway into the court . |
| 11 | NORTHALLERTON : Consultants may be employed to push through the town 's urgently needed bypass after campaigners voiced disappointment that the scheme was not included in county council spending estimates for at least six years . |
| 12 | NORTHALLERTON : Consultants may be employed to push through the town 's urgently needed bypass after campaigners voiced disappointment that the scheme was not included in county council spending estimates for at least six years . |
| 13 | It was held that the defendant who had sought to push through the police cordon was committing the offence of obstructing a constable in so doing . |
| 14 | When they declined to do as requested and sought to push through the police cordon , the appellants were arrested , and later convicted of obstructing the police in the execution of their duty . |