Sentence examples for Press it upon from inspiring English sources

If you literally press it upon me that the impossible has indeed happened, do I not recoil?

To press it upon the Eastern patriarchs was to prepare the way for separation; to insist upon it in times of irritation was to cause a schism.

The alarm is to be attached to the key chain of a potential victim, who can press it upon sensing a criminal nearby.

I love Let the Right One In, I do, but there's child abuse, a horrific battering to death, throat cuttings, murder by cats – it's way more gruesome and disturbing than either film version, and now I've got to go out and press it upon random passers-by.

I have pressed it upon my nearest with ferocious enthusiasm.

Second, I pressed it upon my book club, and was worried they wouldn't like it either.

Gone, for instance, is an urn filled with ashes that archivists returned to the donor who pressed it upon the library.

To be fair to Mr Hilton, he could hardly be blamed for embracing a dazzling career in EU punditry when the BBC pressed it upon him, nor was his inexplicable prominence the most bizarre or regrettable aspect of the coverage which, according to polling by the Electoral Reform Society, played the biggest part in the referendum in keeping the British public informed.

To this point his main argument has always, in all stages of the litigation been addressed, and he has pressed it upon the consideration of the Courts, with the utmost pertinacity.

Unfortunately, as so often happens when someone pushes the right button, they are merely called upon to press it again.

His face could register only gross sensations by then — say, a thumb pressed upon it — but, he said, "It is an amazing experience to be able to just feel a kiss again after two and a half years of having no feeling whatsoever".