Sentence examples for member pressed from inspiring English sources

Subpoenaed by the House Homeland Security Committee, the panel that oversees the Secret Service, the couple invoked their Fifth Amendment right to remain silent as member after member pressed them for details about Nov. 24, the night of the state dinner.

After hearing testimony, James S. Polshek, a prominent architect and commission member, pressed the city on the decision to put the 12-foot concrete section in the middle of the Boardwalk, flanked by 19-foot sections of recycled plastic with a false wood grain.

Robert Pattinson plays a low-level gang member pressed into service by the hero.

The head was then replaced with a 6 feet mechanical snake; as it moved outwards, a crew member pressed a foot pedal to collapse the framework.

In front of all the detainees, a militia member pressed a pistol to the head of each of the two men who tried to escape and shot them dead.

But the C. W. Post faculty members pressed on with the strike.

Council members pressed the agency about why there were more officers in Manhattan than in any other borough.

At a Congressional hearing in April, House members pressed the administration to say what would happen to their health insurance if they went into exchanges.

Strongly disputing the charges, Guy Wildenstein and other family members pressed a defamation suit, ultimately unsuccessful, against Mr. Feliciano to France's highest court.

Both men went to Quetta, where family members pressed Hashmat to drop the matter and mediated a peace deal between the men.

Committee members pressed Mr. Pistole and Alan D. Bersin, commissioner of the Customs and Border Protection division of the Department of Homeland Security, on the differences between procedures for air cargo and cargo that goes by sea.