Sentence examples for being pressed to join from inspiring English sources

Already they found themselves being pressed to join a Democratic push to fix the problems, not gut the law.

Teenagers recount being raped, having their rooms set on fire, being pressed to join gangs and routinely having their few nice possessions stolen.

Designers, especially those at Detroit-based companies, are being pressed to join the global community and move away from creating cars tailored to a domestic market whose roads, distances and fuel prices kept engines and cars large.

For their part, more moderate Sunni leaders say they are caught in a nearly impossible position: while they are being pressed to join in the democratic process, they risk losing credibility -- even their lives.

While the Slovenes have said no to the Americans, probably forfeiting $4m in US aid, Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia are now being pressed to join the 39 other countries worldwide with which Washington has sealed bilateral pacts granting Americans immunity from war crimes.

Furthermore, every country that can afford to help pay for such a defense system should be pressed to join the project.

Among other risks, adolescence is the point at which boys are most often pressed to join gangs – or recruited to become involved with armed groups in conflict situations.

In future the signatories and dozens of others that will be pressed into joining later will automatically exchange information once a year.

The Palestinian Authority is planning general elections in January of 2010, and Hamas will be hard pressed to resist joining a political process with agenda to provide goods and services to the Palestinian people.

Even his supporters, though, indicated that Mr. Allawi had to be pressed by his own alliance to join Mr. Maliki's government.

Walk the streets of modern Berlin today, and you'd be hard pressed to spot the join between the old West and East Germany.