The administration official said the United States, while satisfied with Europe's decision to conduct bank stress tests, would press it to continue its political and financial pledge to solving its debt and fiscal problems.
The Bush administration deemed it far more important to try to get Ukraine into NATO than to press it to reform its energy industry.
The testimony comes at a time when the Bush administration is weighing tougher measures to isolate North Korea and press it to abandon its nuclear weapons program.
Indonesia's Asian neighbors are the most threatened by its outbreak and may press it to back down, he said.
China, which supplies an estimated 70 percent of North Korea's trade, is the one country that can provide the necessary economic pressure to push the isolated North to the brink of collapse — or, as Washington, Seoul and Tokyo hope, press it to agree to concessions over its nuclear weapons program.
Even so, America must hold its nose and engage with Pakistan and press it to act against the Taliban.
The West has hoped that China would use its leverage as the North's traditional ally to press it to refrain from further attacks, but the Chinese statement on Friday failed even to criticize the North for its shelling on Tuesday of a garrison island that is also home to about 1,350 civilians, mainly fishermen.
Press it to your lips and quaff, quaff till you're breathless.
Can diplomacy alone press it to choose?Not if Iran assumes it can win in November.
European Union and American mediators, Mr Kagame's staunch allies, have done nothing to press it to do so.
There can be no doubts about the company's liability — or about Mr. Obama's determination to press it to pay.
