Sentence examples for besides pressing from inspiring English sources

Besides pressing for lawsuits, activists are pushing for federal legislation requiring insurers to cover eating disorders and other mental illnesses.

Besides pressing for, and occasionally winning, better assignments and quicker promotions for black officers, it also has served in tense moments as a bridge between the community and the police, and spoken out against the latter.

Besides pressing for more funds for the World Bank, the poorer countries are also pressing to have an even bigger say in the bank's running than the G20 has proposed.As noted by the IMF's managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the world has changed greatly since the equivalent meetings a year ago which came soon after the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

Besides pressing a key every 20 s, there was no extra distraction to the end user.

Besides pressing representatives to pass the act, the average citizen can at the very least heed the panel's warning and follow the recommendations to take action on their own -- filter water, eat organic, read labels.

Besides pressing epidemiologic questions, the elucidation of the tissue and cell tropism of the virus, as well as its sensitivity to retroviral restriction factors is of fundamental importance.

He and Robert Lewandowski discuss this at halftime, since the Pole has heard the same talk, but they shrug it off since Dortmund is still up on aggregate, 4-3, and besides, Madrid will have to start pressing soon and they'll get one on the counter and that will be that.

He has published four novels besides "True Grit" (all five have recently been reissued in paperback by the Overlook Press), and for years those in the sect have been pressing them on new readers like Masons teaching the secret handshake.

No, that would have been far too humane – and besides, there was another group of players whose case for the honours was just as pressing.

It was pressing... and pressing.

Mr. Remini kept pressing.