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Example sentences for: pushing

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Annan is pushing merit-based promotion and management training, ancient ideas that are new to the United Nations.
I got a strange sort of corroboration from my good friend Rosy McHargue, who is now pushing eighty-seven years and has spent most of his life playing clarinet and sax with some of the best jazzbands—Benny Goodman, Red Nichols, Ted Weems, and a slew of others.
The Legal Services Corp., which is now the program's major funding source, began pushing in 1995 for smaller programs to merge.
Long before Al Gore, Glenn was pushing to cut waste and rationalize government procurement.
I'd still like an explanation: Why are Frommer's New York titles multiplying, when the Web should be pushing them into extinction?