When the Esplanade staged Stan Lai's "Total Women" in 2005 as part of its annual Huayi festival, which celebrates Chinese arts, it was hard-pressed to fill its 2,000-seat 2,000-seatr theaterhts, Mr. Nathan said.
Toshiba has by no means given up, but right now it is hard-pressed to keep its strong position in notebooks, under attacks from Compaq, Fujitsu and Hitachi.
The 89th Battalion had concentrated all its forces at the Touscan strong point, where it was hard-pressed by superior Israeli armored and mechanized forces.
Kellogg was interested in Pringles last year, but it felt hard-pressed to compete with the lesser tax bill that would accompany Diamond's bid, Mr. Bryant of Kellogg said in an interview.
It is easy to fall into the trap of seeing social care as just an adjunct to the NHS, of value only when it helps hard-pressed hospitals empty precious beds.
There is no "collective imagination" of the crisis – in one Europe, it is respectable, hard-working people being exploited by chaotic layabouts from the hot south; in the other, it is hard-pressed and equally hard-working people being sucked dry to feed foreign banks.
In all fairness, I actually agree that this could be a worthy extension for the regular ChaCha service that the company could turn into dollars, which it is hard-pressed for.
Anyone witnessing it is hard-pressed to identify what's going on as a bypass.
In reading the Ferguson transcript of the grand jury proceedings, it is hard-pressed to deny that the police officer defendant received a benefit that no other defendant seems to get in a grand jury: the benefit of the prosecutor becoming his defense attorney.
Were it purely professional it would be hard-pressed to find a better person than Fischer".
