Example sentences of "to press for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bishops might seize the opportunity to urge support for peace councils , abbots to press for protection , lay lords to obtain charters while plentiful clerical help was available to draw them up and suitably important men present to act as witnesses . |
| 2 | The long period of Conservative government from 1951–64 made it easier for Labour MPs , released from electoral inhibitions , to press for abolition . |
| 3 | Employees require information to determine whether , in the first place , to work for a public sector agency and subsequently to determine when to press for salary increases or an enhancement of conditions of employment . |
| 4 | No political movement has emerged in Britain to press for rundown of the mental hospitals . |
| 5 | While it is important to press for legislation , we should also urge the Government to implement the recommendations of the all-party Commons Employment Committee . |
| 6 | Laczko and Phillipson do not suggest following the course taken by the United States and introducing an Age Discrimination in Employment Act , but they are convinced that it is important to press for legislation as well as seeking to improve the attitudes of employers . |
| 7 | Few , certainly , espoused revolutionary ideas in 1931 ; the party 's immediate task , it was generally agreed , was to press for legislation aimed at assisting the working class and , in particular , the impoverished landless labourers of the south . |
| 8 | It aims to promote community broadcasting and to press for legislation . |
| 9 | Having burned their fingers two years ago , senior Ford executives will continue to press for change , but preferably not at the expense of another strike . |
| 10 | For several reasons , it might also have been expected , and will be seen later to have been the case , that some of the younger teachers in the higher status selective schools might become allies of those in the universities beginning to press for change . |
| 11 | While the Act reiterates a commitment to parental involvement ( Sandow , Stafford and Stafford 1987 ) nevertheless many parents have felt excluded from decision-making processes and have formed alliances to challenge local authorities and to press for change . |
| 12 | Liberal democratic institutions , it is argued , have been grafted onto a society which places a high value on social consensus , but there are opportunities for groups to press for change . |
| 13 | Before women could form into groups to press for change they too had to challenge ruling ideas — ideas which suggested that their proper place was at home with the family . |
| 14 | But as you know the Save The Children is just one development organisation and with limited resources , so a major part of our task is to use our influence and authority to press for change on a wider scale by keeping the issues of poverty and inequality and of children firmly on the international agenda . |
| 15 | The latest draft of the European Commission 's plan for telecommunications seeks deregulation of cross-border services within the Community from January 1996 and of all services , domestic and international , by the start of 1998 , Reuter reports from Brussels , and phone companies expect it to press for deregulation of phone service despite the industry 's reservations — ‘ It 's far too ambitious — we 're not opposed to deregulation but this is too fast , ’ Charlotte Pins , a director of corporate communications at Belgium 's Belgacom said ; France Telecom said it backed ‘ setting sights on 1998 or 2000 ’ as a deadline for freeing the phone service , but Community-wide rules on access to national networks , costs , tariffs and public service duties would have to be agreed shortly . |
| 16 | We should learn to pay ourselves wage rises lower than inflation when necessary , and not to press for devaluation within the EMS . |
| 17 | Britain to press for bird import ban |
| 18 | Conservative candidate Michael Bates is to press for Cattesty Beach at Skinningrove to be designated a bathing beach . |
| 19 | It hopes the findings of the survey will provide ammunition to press for government funding as well as policy changes to encourage housing associations or similar schemes to help local people . |
| 20 | You might also like to urge your MPs to press for reinstatement of the WAC so that it can complete this important study . |
| 21 | Leicester East MP , Keith Vaz , who has led the campaign for compensation for victims of the BCCI collapse , said he would seek an early meeting with the Chancellor to press for compensation . |
| 22 | An appeal to the Privy Council in 1623 prompted their recommendation that his creditors forebear , for one year , later extended , to press for payment . |
| 23 | The Labour spokesman , John McFall , the MP for Dumbarton , claimed that the increases in cost of legal aid represented an artificial blip because the recession was forcing lawyers ' offices to press for payment on accounts . |
| 24 | Will he continue to press for diversity in education through grant-maintained schools , through city technology colleges and through local management of schools responsive to parents ' wishes ? |
| 25 | The work was not complete by that time , and although time for delivery is usually a condition , the defendant did not cancel the contract as he was entitled to do , but continued to press for delivery , thereby waiving his right to cancel . |
| 26 | After the plaintiffs had failed to complete the work by that date , the defendant continued to press for delivery but , on 29 June , gave notice that , if the work was not completed within a further four weeks , he would cancel the order . |
| 27 | There were , however , divisions within the Labour movement between those prepared to press for unemployment benefits and public works and those who argued that these were mere palliatives , and that shorter hours , higher pay and ultimately social ownership of industry should be the fundamental aims . |
| 28 | The Left in the party at large , anxious about the failure of the party in Parliament to press for socialism when in government , have been concerned to change the relationship between the parliamentary party and the party outside Parliament through the implementation of three changes in the party constitution . |
| 29 | We therefore urge our friends to press for inquiry commissions to investigate the terrible conditions of all Israeli jails . |
| 30 | Main was not the only excise officer resident in Inverkeithing , and the Cunningham party , while continuing to press for Main 's reinstatement , did not neglect the remainder of the excise establishment . |