Sentence examples for if we pressed from inspiring English sources

If we pressed our defense attorney (or brought in a philosopher to help him out), we might get the following reply: Making our actions (and thereby our selves) in the way that we make dinners, gardens, boats, and books is not good enough because we are talking about moral responsibility.

"If we press the regime strongly," he said, "there could be an implosion.

If we press these issues now, then that is setting us up for failure.

The likelihood is that if we press for gas with CCS, we'll get gas without CCS.

You can picture President Gingrich on his first day in the Oval Office, emanating an impish doomsday aura of "Let's see what happens if we press this button!" In his own feverish, gee-whiz imagination, Newt is both the arsonist and the fireman.

The coaches at the front of the plane acted as if we were pressed for time and driving to the second game of our back-to-back Ivy League weekend.

The more we thought we learned, the less we understood and the quicker we were to make choices based on an ever-shortening time frame and an ever-widening expectation that the rate of wealth creation could be accelerated if we just pressed hard enough on the gas pedal.

We could have made it as far as the Jumbotron near 4th Street if we had pressed on, but as it turned out the area between 6th and 7th Streets was the prime location for the long wait ahead.

"If it's too open, we press 'em back down," explains Williams.

Wouldn't it be nice, if we could press a button to slow down reality and watch how things really move?

Michael and I went for a swim, then relaxed on the open-air deck of the restaurant and played endless hands of gin, wondering if we should press on down the road to the Bubbly Pool, a small cove that froths into champagne when the waves of the Atlantic hit the calm Caribbean.