The French and Germans should press ahead with deeper integration, for example in defence.

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He has also declared darkly that Russia will press ahead with modernising its nuclear arsenal.

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This is to do nothing more than press ahead faster with the treatment programme.

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MPs over her plan to press ahead with the Conservative cuts in lone-parent benefit.

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Can South Africa afford not to press ahead with such deals, whatever their faults?

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But the chief justice was equally right to press ahead with corruption charges against Mr Sharif.

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The government is determined to press ahead with the ban for the new school year in September.

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Given this record the home secretary, Jack Straw, might have been expected to press ahead with privatisation.

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The commission will now feel encouraged to press ahead with a new version of its takeover directive.

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McDonald's was allowed to press ahead with opening restaurants whilst it prepared its case for the Appeal Court.

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If they continue to press ahead with reforms and write-offs, they are indeed in a fight they can win.

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Moreover, his appeal to ordinary voters has allowed Mr Estrada to press ahead with measures that his predecessor neglected.

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