Sentence examples for cases pressed from inspiring English sources

Mr. Berlusconi, a defendant in multiple court cases, pressed to weaken the powers of judges and prosecutors.

Shareholders have successfully and properly brought pressure to bear on underperforming companies, pushed out entrenched directors and, in some cases, pressed for operational changes to address health and the environment.

Indeed, much of the story borrows from depositions taken in cases pressed by former associates — Mr. Saverin, Divya Narendra and Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss — over the founding and subsequent ownership and control of Facebook.

Mr. Espinosa says he is a victim of politics, which in one sense may be true: his is likely to be the first of many corruption cases pressed by the new government of President Vicente Fox against the members of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which ran Mexico for seven decades until this month.

"Whilst the first cases pressed by Sinn Féin concerned those who lived and had family in the north of Ireland, the scheme extended to applicants in the Republic of Ireland who had no such relationships and to persons whose extradition had been actively sought from within other jurisdictions.

These cases press home the need for abortion opponents and supporters alike to oppose these bans and secure society's commitment to the fundamental principle: That a woman is a person with civil and human rights throughout her pregnancy.

Police manipulation is a theme that gets explored from different angles in later episodes, where cops on other cases press on grieving family until they offer something even a suggestion that they blacked out and don't remember a killing.

Likewise, to slow down (or squeal your tires in many cases), press the down arrow.

Perry A. Carbone, one of the assistant United States attorneys prosecuting the case, pressed for the full 24 months.

But this thoughtful detective is constantly being pulled off the case, pressed into strenuous action by an overwrought thriller subplot.

Hina Shamsi, my colleague who argued the case, pressed the court to consider the implications of closing the courthouse door.