Sentence examples for knocking hard from inspiring English sources

And now come Richard Fisher and Harvey Rosenblum, knocking hard on the gates of Washington with an op-ed article in The Wall Street Journal on Monday, "How to Shrink the 'Too-Big-to-Fail' Banks".

On the last day, we were all in bed past the checkout time, getting over our hangovers, when the staff came round and started knocking hard on the door.

"For years, agriculture, food systems, including oceans, including forests, have been knocking hard at the door and now there's movement starting," said David Nabarro, former special representative of food security and nutrition for the United Nations, at the LPAA agriculture press briefing on Tuesday afternoon.

Exiled from the elite since 1962, they are knocking hard on the door for re-admittance, odds-on favourites to progress to the final of the Championship play-offs, with the home leg of this semi-final to come on Wednesday night.

With both of these lovable geezers knocking hard on death's door, it falls to Kinsey to dig out the musty evidence and talk up residents with long-buried memories of the young woman whose body was dumped in a forgotten quarry, unknown and still unclaimed after all these years.

You got into Harvard and then dropped out because opportunity was knocking hard and loud.

Rich Juzwiak of The Village Voice complimented "I Was Here" as knocking harder than anything on 4's "bloated predecessor", I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008).

The company's vast pension kitty, brimming with company stock, has been knocked hard.

A handwritten sign on the door said that deliveries should "knock hard".

We've been knocked, and knocked hard, but every day the team has come back stronger.

The trick is to knock on the bone that runs above a horse's muzzle — knock hard, like that bone is a door — and then listen.