They continued to press for political rights, however, and operated a variety of newspapers which governors considered troublesome and demagogic.

In this, he has the firm backing of the country's most powerful business executives, many of them men who have pressed hard for black political rights.

Social workers with Bachelor of Arts degrees are pressing for similar rights.

She pressed for equal rights for women in the British Home Guard.

The vote, which was seen as a rebuke to the Bush administration's foreign policy, left astonished American officials vowing to press for human rights from the sidelines.

A movement growing in political importance is pressing for equal rights for a minority.

He gave speeches addressed to the "Working Classes and no other", urging them to press for full equal rights.

The Indians were pressing for similar political rights to those of the white settlers.

A combination of radical students demanding rapid change and workers pressing for economic rights could be explosive.

We must press for rights to be recognised at home as well as abroad.