Sentence examples for general pressing from inspiring English sources

Still, the Justice Department and state attorneys general pressing the case insist that they will not settle for mild sanctions.

Bush White House officials moved swiftly today to save the nomination of Theodore B. Olson to be solicitor general, pressing Republicans in the Senate to offer concessions to the Democrats.

In general, pressing harder does not remove more bacteria.

Some analysts in Myanmar say Mr. Thein Sein has been unable or unwilling to control the generals pressing the war.

As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan dragged on, General McCaffrey increasingly gave public expression to the private frustrations of generals pressing their civilian bosses for more troops, weapons and reconstruction money.

Harris continued interrogating the deputy attorney general, again pressing him to give a "yes or no" answer.

Mr. Karzai has strengthened the government's anticorruption commission, and his attorney general is pressing forward on some cases involving former government figures.

The clandestine French Resistance in Paris rose against the Germans on August 19; and a French division under General Jacques Leclerc, pressing forward from Normandy, received the surrender of the German forces there and liberated the city on August 25.

Since WorldCom filed for bankruptcy protection in July 2002, however, a number of pension-fund officials have taken a page from the playbook of the New York State attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, pressing corporations on a variety of fronts.

Few would disagree that the 19th-century ballerina Marie Taglioni "fused the elegance and refinement of a lost aristocratic past with a new and airy spirituality", but to say that her dancing "seemed to echo a more general and pressing desire for reconciliation" in the wake of the Bourbon restoration is probably stretching a point.

During the hearing, Issa questioned Attorney General Eric Holder, pressing him to fire people involved with the operation.