He added that he was told that Mr. Obama had already pressed Field Marshal Tantawi to end such trials.
Workers in four New York area offices, though, described a frantic atmosphere in the final days of the counting in which managers pressed field operation supervisors, who pressed crew leaders, who then called on enumerators to finish the effort.
Mr. Carter, 87, said that in their meeting he had repeatedly pressed Field Marshal Tantawi on how to resolve potential disputes between the military council and the elected civilian authorities over the military's future powers and privileges, which he called "the basic question that has not yet been resolved".
Food was needed, lots of it, and farmers across the UK exploited the rule change and pressed fields of set-aside land back into production.
Mr. Carney, the press secretary, fielded questions about the theoretical tactic at a news conference last week.
At the White House daily briefing on Monday, Jay Carney, the press secretary, fielded questions about rising gas prices before getting to an extended discussion about the deaths in Afghanistan.
His three lawyers were there, too, and two of them — Thomas Anthony Durkin and Bernard E. Harcourt — held an impromptu press conference, fielding questions from the reporters who had awaited Al Homssi's arrival.
Certificates of qualification and election, invoices, bonds, oaths of allegiance to the restored government and the Union, commissions for Army officers – especially being pressed by field commanders, election returns, proceedings, reports, resignations, proclamations, maps and special orders to state banks, railroads, turnpike operators and county officials.
Stars of the magazine's December-January issue in honor of the "100 Influential Men and Women Who Inspired, Shaped, and Changed Our World in 2010," according to a press release, fielded reporters on an L-shaped red carpet in the lobby of Frank Gehry's IAC Building.
"Her back and her muscle … pressed into field labour where she was forced to … work like men.
